re: #108 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Women discovered the wonders of the Internet and no longer had to settle for their husbands’ ineptness in the sack.
Heh. Well, I guess maybe the audience for the bow-chicka-bow-wow vids was not exclusively male, but certainly dudes over-index for time spent watching Bang Bros. productions & etc.
The other thing that made AR-15/AK-47 sales shoot up was that everyone who wanted a hunting rifle pretty much had one by the late 80s. The gun mags started filling up with articles about so-called “Wildcat” rounds, but those didn’t really move.
Then they hit upon freaking the shit out of the yokels with visions of jackbooted gummint thugs & hordes of Brown People descending on them, and sold them the “black guns” as the only thing standing between them & total destruction.
Sales skyrocketed.