Posted on 04/03/2013 3:45:24 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
According to data released today, demand for firearms re-accelerated in March and remains at an elevated rate. Pipeline Data believes that firearm background checks exceeded expectations in March, exhibiting exceptional seasonal strength.
The firm estimates that over 2.2 million checks were performed through the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). This represents the fourth straight month over 2 million and the fourth highest total ever.
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So much for the notion that people "want" gun control.
Count me as one of the 2 million for March.
So why is SWHC in the tank?
Wow - think of all those patriotic Americans who are buying those guns just to turn them in.
RGR is too (I am a shareholder). I can only believe the thinking behind this is that wall street believes that people are pulling in future purchases to the present.
However, out of the many new gun owners a fraction will always purchase additional guns. To me this is a non-issue and a reason to buy the stocks when they fall. However, they are down on a day when the market was down.
They have to store it somewhere, right?
Gonna be a whole lot of people for the JBTs to round up.
‘Wow - think of all those patriotic Americans who are buying those guns just to turn them in.’
WELL maybe not turn them themselves in...but make themselves turn their nasty guns IN AND OVER to our duly appointed police and gobernment agents.....those who stand ever at the ready to protect and serve ....they’re our Minute Men allright ever on the ramparts of the cutting edges of crime wherever it rears it’s ugly head....you know..MINUTE-MEN...there in minutes when SECONDS count...
and if they are too late well at least the unfortunate victim can die resting assured she’s a LAW ABIDIN’ victim....a dead LAW ABIDER but a victum just the same....(there’s a price to pay to live in the village u know!) Be a good citizen shut up .....AND R.I.P. I reserve the balance of my time....but if that mugger comes thru the door i won’t need any time because my time will have expired...!
Thanks for your thoughts.
I’ll just hold on.....
I don’t get it. What’s Obastard’s game? Why is he driving the sales of guns and ammo through the roof? He knows he doing it. For what gain?
He wants to start a war. And he’s going to do it.
You, sir, have coined a phrase:
“IT’S NOT ABOUT GUN CONTROL, IT’S ABOUT CITIZEN CONTROL!”
Shout it from the housetops!
You don’t start a war by arming the enemy.
65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total
And in the last two months... (Dec. 2012 and Jan. 2013)
Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies
Well, no, not if you have a brain.
That number would have been several times higher, if the number of readily available, popular firearms were several times higher with plenty of ammunition available for each of them.
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