Posted on 03/11/2015 5:37:04 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
As soon as Barack Obama won the 2008 election, gun sales spiked. The number of background checks (a point of data linked to gun sales numbers) increased by 50 percent over the rest of that year in November and December. (December figures are often higher, we'll note, due to the popularity of giving weapons as Christmas presents.) The Aiken Standard in Aiken, S.C., wrote about spiking sales that December, quoting an employee at a local gun store: "There's been a definite increase. It's because a Democrat is in office, in my opinion." Not quite in office, but you get the point.
To measure how big the Obama Gun Boom has been, we turned to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. It uses data on excise taxes collected by the government on weapon and ammunition sales to estimate the total market for those products. It provided its estimates from 1982 through the third quarter of last year to the Post.
Overall, the estimates look like this. We've shaded in the Obama Era as encompassing 2008 through 2014, due to the spike at the end of 2008. (That plays into our projections later, so bear that in mind.) Notice the spike in 1993, as well, the last time a Democrat assumed the presidency. And, of course, backed the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act, which is precisely the sort of thing gun advocates fear.
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He’s probably making plans to nationalize it right now.
I ran out and bought 2000 rnds of .223. Now I feel like an idiot but that takes me to 10,000!!
I can’t read those graphs — the print is too small.
Insert “It’s over 9000!” meme here.
damn, now I have ammo envy......sort of. unless you have that much of 7.62x39 also /sly grin
You ARE an idiot!
Shoulda’ got 5000 ;)
:-)
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And all these people are doing this because they are worried about getting mugged at the 7/11 NOT (although because of Obie’s stimulation of a race war, that is next)
So why the never ending blab about “gun crime”?
The left knows the gun buying is insurance against despotic government. But they will never admit that out loud because they would have to prove the government is not becoming despotic. And they can’t do that. Because it is, and because that is what they want it to be.
I just saw a FB post that said that Midway USA just gave NRA-ILA $100,000. So business must be good.
Life NRA, life GOA, just gave Chris Cox a little incentive ...
Yes, the enemy is at the gate.
We can sit smug in our pile of green-tip, but this isn’t over.
Man up.
I just ordered NRA checks, an NRA credit card, and am going to look to support them in any way I can. We cannot take our rights for granted.
Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012
And it continues...
And there is more...
And more...
NRA/ILA is the fighting wing. I give them all the support I can afford.
Like my brother keeps telling me, Hussein is the best gun salesman this country ever had.
I’ve wondered if this is on purpose - give the gun people lots to be upset about and they will be distracted and spend their money on guns and ammo instead of fighting the real things he is attacking...
"You're welcome! Oh, and you didn't build that."
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