Posted on 01/04/2012 2:16:24 PM PST by marktwain
Manasquan, NJ --(Ammoland.com)- Recent statistics released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) report that for nineteen straight months, and that includes all of 2011, American men & women bought over 10,800,000 plus firearms.
This number based on the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System, better know as NICS, and is the adjusted NICS data derived by the NSSF research division subtracting out NICS purpose code permit checks used by several states such as Kentucky, Iowa and Utah for carrying concealed weapon (CCW) permit application checks as well as checks on active CCW permit databases.
The final number, of 10,800,000, is considered conservative by experts because the this number does not account for the multiple purchase of guns at the same time or the guns bought and sold legally, person to person by US residents, which rightly so, do not require a back ground check.
Ten Million new gun owners, in just 2011, should be a wake up call to our current President who continues to play dumb that his hate of bible clinging, gun toting American Values, like hunting & owning guns will not be tolerated. His and Eric Holders under the radar plan to sell guns to evil Mexican Gun Cartels in an effort to set up the Second Amendment as the fall guy now has ten million people angry at him.
If just one current Presidential candidate (Ron Paul aside..) could prove his sworn support for the Second Amendment, and the constitution for that matter, and rally our forces behind him he would be swept into the white house on a massive wave of support. Can you say Ted Nugent?
So what does 10,800,000 look like? The guns purchased by American men & women in 2011 is more than one gun for every active duty military member in the worlds fourteen largest armies combined.
* Russia Russian Federation 1,027,000
* North Korea 1,106,000
* South Korea 687,000
* Vietnam 455,000
* India 1,325,000
* China 2,285,000
* Iran 523,000
* United States 1,468,364
* Republic of China 290,000
* Brazil 327,710
* Pakistan 617,000
* Egypt 468,500
* Cuba 49,000
* Ukraine 129,925
* Above Total = 10,758,499
* *Source Wikipedia: http://tiny.cc/tl4d8
If you assume an average length of each gun as two feet that would be 4090 miles of guns. That is fourteen times the length of the Grand Canyon and all most twice as long as the Mississippi River and 17,280 times higher than the Empire State Building.
I could not find a picture of 10,800, 000 guns but here is what 10,800, 000 firecrackers look like:
Hello, I am an Ammo Horder?
So let assume each new gun owner buys 2000 rounds of Ammo (a single brick of 22lr is 500 rounds and my kids can burn that up in an afternoon) , times that by our conservative estimate of 10,800,000 firearms your get 21,600,000,000 that is trillion with a T.
That is a lot of lead and other raw materials and you wonder why we are paying so much for Ammo these days? And I see no let up in sight because if you are like me you think to yourself that when the liberal news media reports that some guy is stopped at the airport with 1000 Rounds on him.. that dude was almost out of ammo?
Ammunition retailer Frank Brownell of Brownells.com, predicts [2012] will most assuredly be another year for the growth of ammunition sales. An astronomical year of ammunition sales .
This is the one sector of our national economy that I would agree to a Federal Stimulus package, maybe each US family can get a tax credit to purchase 10,000 rounds of ammo as a part of emergency preparedness program.
Speaking of America Industry
American gun manufacturing is one of the first and last great US industries.
It was Eli Whitney, yeah the guy who made the cotton gin, who was one of the first manufacturers in the world to carry out standardization of manufactured parts.
As early as 1798, Eli Whitney had turned his talents to the manufacture of firearms. He had established his machine shops at Whitneyville, near New Haven, CT and it was there that he worked out the principle of standardization or interchangeable parts.
Standardization is the foundation of all large-scale production. Manufacturers produce separately many copies of every part of a complicated machine like firearms on an assembly line. Standardization also allowed current owners of guns to order and replace any broken or lost part, taking it for granted that the new part would fit easily and precisely into the place of the old.
In effect the manufacture of firearms is the spark that brought to life American Manufacturing and it is that same industry today that still makes almost all its products in the USA, using raw materials, machinist and labor to turn out some of the best made products on earth, namely Guns. Guns made by American workers in American factories for American consumers.
Guns and Freedom
Guns and gun ownership represent the core of elements of freedom and of the constitution. Without the Second Amendment there would be no protection for all the other god given rights we are reminded of by our constitution. Just as we teach our children the value of voting or free speech we should also be teaching them.. get ready, aim and fire, repeat.
I am glad to see so many of my fellow Americans decided to exercise their right to keep and bear arms over the last year and I hope we continue to see record growth in gun ownership in the year to come. America, Hell Yeah!
The reason the crime rate didn’t go up with all these extra guns is that they were bought by law abaiding citizens.
I did my part. I bought a K31 for my Christmas present to myself. No background check required on that.
Umm... Actually that is 21.6 Billion rounds.
Hi-Point pistols and carbines.
I did my part x2 in 2011. Free multiple-magazine offers are hard to resist.
“21,600,000,000 that is trillion with a T”
No that is billion with a “B”.
That's right. So better go shopping.
Free Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns in 2011 ~ Message Dont F-with USA
Sorry to state the bloody obvious, but Thats what keeps us free.
Of course, Obama and his National cadre of Socialists would like to change all that.
If nothing else, I think Obama should go down in history as the best Gun Salesman of all time.
Remember when he first went into office? I couldn’t find ammo anywhere for love or money.
We did too. I thought that number sounded high, but after I thought about it. Heck I bought two, and a don't even want to know what we spent in ammo this year.
later
If obama is reelected, expect federal agents and men in purple shirts to be searching your home and confiscating all guns and ammo in about mid-2014 or so. They will probably also rape all the women while they are at it.....just to show how macho and in-charge they are. Only white women, though.
And I helped, last one was a Remington CDL-SF in 257 Weatherby.
LLS
Bring it. That will be the end of the federal agents and SEIU operatives. They try to confiscate, there are those of us who will kill and die on that particular hill. And they know it.
Jugears is good for something. Boo yah!
I’m in for 9 in 2011.
Did my part!
That is known as the “Planet of the Apes” gun. It looks like it could be in that movie. There actually is a newer model of that gun that is nowhere near as ugly . As for gun purchases , I bought 3 last year and sold 2 others . My New Years resolution is to buy more guns than last year.
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