I was chatting with my friend who owns a gun shop, and joking about just visiting in the last week of the Republic, to try to remember now, the “good old days”.

He laughed, and looked down at the handful of guns left on the shelves of the glass cases, and said, “funny”.

About a minute later he said “you’re serious”?

I said “yep”.

Are we living in the last days of the Republic?