Posted on 10/12/2022 4:57:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber
We’re in the middle of what the New York Times has called the “great gun-buying boom that shows no sign of letting up.” And while the Democrat party spends its time demonizing firearms and those who choose to own them, millions of law-abiding Americans are leveraging their constitutional rights to protect and defend themselves.
This is perhaps no clearer than in the shift in sales from long guns, like rifles, to handguns that are designed for personal protection.
But with a surge in gun sales of this proportion, we have to ask: Why? In other words, what specifically is driving such an increase?
U.S. Gun Sales: Behind the Numbers
In July 2022, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) processed 2.4 million background check requests for the purchase of firearms. That was the third highest July on record -- marking five straight months of historically high gun sales in the United States (and nearly five years of increasing annual totals).
In 2020 and 2021, there were a combined 40 million guns sold. For perspective, there were less than 40 million combined guns sold in the five-year stretch between 2000 and 2004. And the number of guns sold in 2021 is more than twice the number sold in 2001. From 2021 to 2022, gun sales in the U.S. have risen by 155 percent.
No state sold more guns in 2021 than Texas, where there was a total of 1.6 million firearms sold. Florida and Pennsylvania followed behind. But in terms of per-capita gun sales, Wyoming ranks first (0.19 guns sold per adult 21 years or older).
Ironically enough, the District of Columbia saw the largest increase in gun purchases from 2020 to 2021 at 37 percent. Hawaii (29 percent), Iowa (25 percent), and New Jersey (25 percent) followed closely behind.
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Yes, every woman I’m acquainted with in this town has gun(s), and the women around HERE are all old. Like me.
I have a good friend that teaches Concealed Carry classes which are necessary to obtain a permit. He has seen a tremendous upsurge in women taking the class. Most of these women have never even held a gun of any kind in their entire lives, but they are really frightened by the lawlessness they see going on around them. He encourages everyone of them to take a pistol course so they can develop at least a minimum level of proficiency with their weapon, but most do not because “it makes too much noise”. Gonna be even more dangerous out there.
” “it makes too much noise””
Who cares about a little noise if a gun blast is going to save your life!
Open borders, they're not sending their best.
5. Supreme Court decisions upholding the right of people to own guns despite what the Democrats think.
Because stealing them is dangerous? After all, the people you’d steal guns from tend to be, you know, gun owners...
You are right! It would be safer to steal guns from someone that does not own one. Oh, wait...
When your life is on the line and you have to pull the trigger you will be so stressed out you will often not even hear the shot you just made.
The correct answer is, Joe Sixpack thinks a gun is a magic talisman. Merely possessing a gun will frighten away evil.
That HAS TO be the answer because the vast majority buy the gun, take it home, never get formal training with it, never practice with it enough to make a difference, and leave it at home in a box when they go out and about.
So either they think were born with the marksmanship skills of Jerry Miculek or that the gun has magic powers and can ward off evil.
In New jersey, the number one gun “crime” is merely possessing one without the permission of the almighty state.
Any requirement of a permit or licensing is a clear infringement upon the rights recognized in the second amendment. Constitutional carry should be the default setting.
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