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Manufacture of Firearms Up 300% Since 2000
AmmoLand News ^ | 5/18/2022 | John Crump

Posted on 05/19/2022 7:47:58 AM PDT by gunwriter

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According to a report released Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the number of guns manufactured has steadily increased over the past 20 years.

The report released Tuesday by the Bureau tracked the manufacture and importation of firearms since 1986. The manufacture of guns remained steady from 1986 to 2000.

Each of these years showed that around three million firearms were produced. In the same period, the importation of firearms rose from 701,000 to 1,096,782.

After 2001, the gun industry saw an explosion in the manufacturing and importation of firearms.

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1 posted on 05/19/2022 7:47:58 AM PDT by gunwriter
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To: gunwriter

Welcome to FreeRepublic.

I subscribe to AmmoLand. One of the few things I do subscribe to.

FreeRepublic being #1.


2 posted on 05/19/2022 7:53:10 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: gunwriter

Production might be up overall, but certain models are still in short supply. The venerable Ruger Redhawk, for instance.


3 posted on 05/19/2022 7:56:38 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: gunwriter

Waiting over a hear now for the paperwork to go through on my suppressor.


4 posted on 05/19/2022 8:08:02 AM PDT by ArtDodger
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To: LouAvul

A LOT of models aren’t available - certain types are flooding, but huge variety are just impossible. Decent shotguns are thin as paper.

Most ammunition and components are still impossible to find - 30-30 Win is nearly impossible to find outside of near-scalper mail-order rates.


5 posted on 05/19/2022 8:08:12 AM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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To: larrytown

Have you checked Ammoseek?
Lots of reasonablely priced 30-30.
Shipping drives up the cost, but you save time and gas by not driving, to get it.


6 posted on 05/19/2022 8:13:56 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: gunwriter

I believe it. Especially since Covid hit. Approximately 40 million firearms were sold in the last couple of years. If everyone wanted just 100 rounds of ammo, that 4 BILLION rounds. Add to that normal demand and you have probably a 400 billion round demand.

And people wonder why they can’t find ammo, powder and primers.

BTW, the demand has tapered off in the last month.


7 posted on 05/19/2022 8:16:29 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Inside every liberal is a blood-thirsty fascist yearning to be free of current societal constraints.)
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To: LouAvul
I retained a lot of option value in my 2nd Amendment rights until 2020 when my father passed and I inherited 2 dusty rifles. I always wanted to get a handgun, but sat on the fence and watched new models and innovations proliferated until finally hearing Chuck Schumer utter some outrageous attack on my Constitutional rights and that did it. I went to Shoot Straight and ordered a Sig Sauer P365. As they say, I have more guns than I need, but not as many as I want. My collection will expand.

The gun industry should present an annual award to the politician who single-handedly increases gun sales the most in a given year. For me that was Chuck Schumer, for others Joe Biden, Maxine Watters, Laurie Lightfoot, etc., etc., etc.

8 posted on 05/19/2022 8:20:24 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: airborne; marktwain; gunwriter

Good stuff, Absolutely!
Mark Twain on Vacation?
Welcome Writer!


9 posted on 05/19/2022 8:23:12 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Obammy was a Salesman!
Get a good Revolver too!


10 posted on 05/19/2022 8:25:55 AM PDT by Big Red Badger (We Are JONAH)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Good solid choice!


11 posted on 05/19/2022 8:30:07 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (Blessed are the peace makers.)
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To: gunwriter

This is all Bush’s fault./s

Curse you, White Supremacists!/s

What models and makes went up the most?


12 posted on 05/19/2022 9:04:48 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

Can you call BLM a “politician”? They sure inspired more gun sales.


13 posted on 05/19/2022 9:07:46 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 (All Hail the MAGA King, beloved of Ultra MAGAs and Deplorables!)
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To: gunwriter

The Clinton Assault Weapons Ban expired in 2004 and a LOT of AR-15’s have been manufactured and sold since then. That awful piece of legislation was a wake up call to Americans that, yes, the Democrats actually are trying to take away your guns. Before that it was mostly just rhetoric but the AWB jolted a lot of Americans back to reality on Democrats and guns.


14 posted on 05/19/2022 9:10:02 AM PDT by GaryCrow
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To: gunwriter

It’s getting so that there may be some profit in dredging lakes and ponds because of all the boating accidents.


15 posted on 05/19/2022 9:19:57 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (Freedom isn't free, liberty isn't liberal and you'll never find anything Right on the Left)
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To: gunwriter
David Hogg is so disappointed....

Great....

16 posted on 05/19/2022 6:07:44 PM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (I'm the ones trying to save Ameriying toocan Democracy...Donald Trump 6/21 at the NCGOP convention! )
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To: muir_redwoods

Magnet fishing!


17 posted on 05/19/2022 6:15:18 PM PDT by larrytown (A Cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do. Then they graduate...)
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