Steele,

"Well I know the thought of gun manufacturers increasing profits must excite the hell out of you it doesn't do a thing for me."

It doesn't excite me either, I guess that you, like me, don't have any shares.
I'm glad though that the industry is looking up, the Italians make some fine firearms.
http://www.davide-pedersoli.com/guns-rifles.asp/l_en/partenza_0/idl_2/rifles/rifles.html
http://www.ubertireplicas.com/
http://www.pietta.us/products/index.html

Sorry for the typo in a previous post, should have been "Psychology for Beginners", hope you weren't confused.