This gem:
"Douglas Philpott Hey, I'm not saying they're necessarily breaking the law. I'm just saying people in the US are making decisions these days about what kind of society we want to live in. Some want things to be one way, others want it to be a different way. Ultimately, what's going to decide is the social-good factor. The "hobby" or profession that does the most damage to society is the one that's going to fail. So if Littleton wants to be the big gun center of MA rather than tighten up their zoning and encourage other uses for that building, fine, whatever. We shall see where it takes them, good or ill.
Americans have lived around guns forever. What's new these days is the prevalent attitude among some people of hostility towards others, of bullying and intimidating anyone who disagrees with them or is even visibly different from them in appearance or lifestyle. So honestly, we may say that many people don't want to live around guns, but in fact, what's really happening is that we don't want to live around people who threaten people with guns and throw their weight around with guns.
So, fine, the vendors and customers in the Littleton Mill are probably all properly licensed and checked, and all the transactions there are probably entirely lawful. Wonderful. Yay, Massachusetts for having sane gun laws. But that doesn't stop problem people from being drawn there because of the guns - gun-fankids, gun-nuts, extremists of various kinds, etc. The people who are making guns be The Problem in the US, such as they never were before.
Good luck to Littleton with their new, enthusiastic gun market. I won't ever go there, though. Not because there's a gun market there, but because of who is most likely to be shopping in that market. I'll keep my distance."