The FBI has released the final numbers for 2017 gun sales. While 2016’s sales record of 27 million still stands, last year’s 25,235,215 comes in second by a mere eight percent. While the mainstream media claimed a steep decline in firearm sales, those fake news reports proved nothing more than wishful thinking. From the Washington Post (where Democracy dies in darkness):
BOSSIER CITY, La. — Sales of guns and ammunition in the United States have dropped precipitously since Election Day, according to FBI statistics, trade groups, gun shop owners and corporate reports, what many say is the result of electing a president who has vowed to protect gun rights.
Sales of guns and ammunition dropped precipitously? If eight percent is a precipitous drop, what does the Washington Post consider the 17 percent loss of Democrats in the US Senate under Barack Obama? Or the 24 percent fewer Democrats in Congress in that same time?
And speaking of precipitous drops, how about the 48 percent decline in accidental firearms deaths from 1999 to 2015? Doesn’t 48 percent sound a lot closer to ‘precipitous’ than eight percent? The LA Times reports:
Gun violence has received no shortage of attention. But one bright spot has gotten much less: the number of accidental shooting deaths has steadily declined.
There were 489 people killed in unintentional shootings in the U.S. in 2015, the most recent year for which data is available. That was down from 824 deaths in 1999, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Taking into account population growth over that time, the rate fell 48%.
But more guns equals more accidental deaths, according to Harvard’s allegedly vaunted Injury Control Research Center. However, reality doesn’t square with Harvard’s junk science.
From 2000 to 2015, Americans have purchased 216 million guns from dealers. Despite adding all these guns, accidental gun deaths plummeted precipitously 48 percent! Only the Harvard Injury Control Research Center and its doctor of deceit David Hemenway could argue with a straight face that more guns equals more accidental deaths.
Only fools believe fake news. While some companies have struggled, others have flourished, just as with any industry.
I EMPHATICALLY OPPOSE all measures that deprive people of their rights without a fair opportunity to defend themselves and confront their accusers. Period.
Removing someone’s right based on nothing more than allegations (including domestic abuse allegations) is not a fair opportunity to defend oneself and confront your accusers.
On a practical note, taking away a domestic abuser’s firearms is meaningless since that domestic abuser can EASILY employ any number of techniques that do not involve firearms to kill their victim. Think about it: how hard can it be to kill someone (without firearms) when that person lives and SLEEPS in the same home with you? Answer: it is alarmingly easy.
At our club we have used every type of crown out there and found none superior over the other including having no crown at all as Winchester at one time used to do. As long as the crown is done properly there is no difference in accuracy period. This may not be true if you use silencers but I have no experience with this and even if true how long would it take to screw off a silencer and clean the crown?
I don’t understand the discrepancy of NICS checks numbers to the account of slow sales from the gun shops. For example, Tim of Military Arms Channel discusses the noticable slow-down of gun sales he has experienced in his own gun shop. Some of the gun shops in my area have similar sentiments. So, who is lying?
The author has made the mistake of comparing apples to oranges. NICS talks in numbers of background checks. Dealers and manufactures look at sales in dollars.
You can have a record number of background checks and a decline in sales dollars at the same time.
There was a lot of deep discounting this year in firearms market place so sales dollars declined which was made worse by a drop the number of people buying which was reflected in the NICS background check numbers.
It may be possible that people in gun friendly states/areas are already stocked up and those in gun unfriendly states/areas are the ones buying. State by state NICS stats might shed some light.
Lets face facts we are not a Democracy and never have been. We missed the chance for a Parliamentary system and elections by popular vote because the original “swamp rats” were the Founding Fathers who feared the people and feared true democracy so they created a nation for the rich and by the rich through a disingenuous representative government complete with an Electoral College and also the corrupt gerrymandering outrages that lets corrupt politicians pick who votes for them rather than the reverse. Gerrymandering is so outrageous in some states like South Carolina that a new study found shockingly that Iran actually has more democracy than South Carolina does.
No other civilized nations on earth permits lunatics and criminals to walk into gun shows and buy all the guns and ammo they could ever want or need.
No other civilized nations permit unsafe storage which lets criminals and nut cases steal all the guns they want from gun stores or private dwellings.
No other civilized nations permit unsafe storage that results in 10,000 children being maimed and killed by guns left unattended.
No other civilized nations fail to vet out people from buying guns who have a history of mental problems and erratic behavior.
Failure to address these problems only will result in both parties knuckling under to draconic anti-gun laws and confiscation due to public pressure and mass hysteria in regards to the almost weekly mass shootings by maniacs with assault rifles. Last year the Supreme Court did just exactly that due to public mass hysteria and completely trashed both the Scalia ruling and the entire Second Amendment by refusing to hear the Maryland Assault Rifle Ban law which gave a blessing to California’s draconian confiscation law now being put into effect as well as its ammunition restriction law as well.
And the false idea by ignoring history leads to the absurd idea that the Republicans have not also been behind the banning of weapons too as Ronald McDonald banned ownership of new full auto weapons, George Busch supported banning semi-auto rifles and Paul Ryan trashed the silencer bill just to name a few times Republicans bent to public pressure to do something about gun violence and death and stabbed gun owners in the back. So think about that next time you start screaming vote Republican because it is only they that will save you rather it is passing laws that actually will stop people from getting guns that should not have them to commit crime and mass murder. Now if none of this makes any sense to you than you are one of the ones that should also not be permitted to own a weapon because you are obviously a deranged nut case as well.
You smooth typer you.
The nice solid KCCI news team that I grew up watching is dead, and it really makes me sad. They used to be a top notch news crew. Some of the people that I watched when I was growing up are still there, but over the last few years it seems like the station owner is more concerned with pushing bullshit like this then they are with reporting actual news.
Not a fan of the Scout Rifle concept — but I am a fan of Savage. If Remington continues to self-destruct its brand, I can envision Savage becoming America’s #2 rifle company behind current #2 and future #1 Ruger (Remington is #1 for now).
Anecdotally, while Remington Model 870s continue to sell very well — it’s the best selling shotgun in history by a wide margin — in my store Savage rifles outsell Remingtons by multiples.
Bear spray does work better than firearms for people who will never face an actual bear.
Your getting eaten bothers them not at all. Different definitions of “works” and “better.”
My impression of an Arsenal is a collection of firearms all of the same type and make designed to be issued to a group of people.
If you have thirteen AR-15 you have an arsenal or armory.
If you possess a Rifle, a Shotgun and a Four wheel drive you are a Country boy.
If you have four rifles, three shotguns two revolvers a pistol and a carbine you are a well armed country boy.
And you can survive.
One .22 lr that resembles an assault rifle is an arsenal to some snow flakes.
What happens if not only you are a licence owner in NY but also other states like FL and keep your guns there?
I have a High Standard Supermatic Trophy that’s never jammed. I think I’ll keep it.