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From: AMuzi <am@yellowjersey.org>
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Subject: Re: Disc brake maintenance tips
Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 07:51:00 -0500
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On 7/8/2024 8:38 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
> On 7/8/2024 5:52 PM, AMuzi wrote:
>> On 7/8/2024 2:53 PM, Frank Krygowski wrote:
>>> On 7/8/2024 4:33 AM, John B. wrote:
>>>>
>>>> And it is noticeable that more and more states are 
>>>> changing their laws
>>>> to allow carrying a gun,  Is this some sort or secret 
>>>> plan by the gun
>>>> owners  or a reaction to what citizens want?
>>>
>>> It's not a secret plan. It's an obvious plan, to enable 
>>> the sale of ever more guns, no matter what the 
>>> consequences. More profits for manufacturers, more riches 
>>> for their executives, more "donations" or bribes for 
>>> politicians, more carnage in the cities, and more fear 
>>> among the public, leading to the sale of even more guns.
>>>
>>
>> The firearms manufacturers are perennially short of cash 
>> and financially anemic. Reorganization or liquidation with 
>> real losses to shareholders are regular and have been as 
>> long as I've followed it (since the seventies and not 
>> getting better).
> 
> Tell me the salaries of the top executives of Ruger, Glock, 
> Smith & Wesson, Colt, etc. I suspect most would say the 
> figures qualify as "riches."
> 
> I claimed more gun sales generate more profits for the 
> manufacturers. Is that not true?
> 
> If there were enough shareholder losses, perhaps there would 
> be hope. But again, it seems likely that it's partially a 
> business strategy to lobby for even looser gun laws, so even 
> more guns will be sold. True or not, the number of guns in 
> U.S. circulation is insane and rising. See the top graph at 
> https://www.thetrace.org/2023/03/guns-america-data-atf-total/
> 

meh.
If bicycles had a similarly long useful life, the curve 
would be the same.

But obsolescence, fashion, deterioration and frankly general 
shoddiness of most bicycles mean the product churns, it 
doesn't aggregate as firearms do.  Small service parts for a 
Browning M1911/A1 are readily available and cheap after over 
100 years in constant production.

I just replaced a worn firing pin on mine, $25 and two days 
delivery.
-- 
Andrew Muzi
am@yellowjersey.org
Open every day since 1 April, 1971