....retirement funds and mutual funds or hedge funds. So if your retirement fund triples ten years before you retire, it does not mean you have anymore disposable income to use now, plus why you be spending that money on guns now instead of letting it continue to grow....
....So I am not surprised to see no direct relationship between rising stock prices and gun prices....
If a person's entire retirement fund is wiped out, that doesn't change their disposable income either. Their mindset, optimism and confidence in the future may be completely different. I think that's how discretionary funds are decided to be spent, consumer confidence. Particular tastes blow with the winds, but I do strongly suspect that most double gun fans started off on sporting firearms of some other configuration.
