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Gun Purchases Continue to Soar
nraila.org ^ | July 8, 2016

Posted on 07/10/2016 7:19:26 AM PDT by PROCON

Maybe Americans aren’t taking to Hillary Clinton’s sour attitude toward guns. Maybe they’re arming themselves out of concern about terrorists and criminals of a more conventional stripe. And maybe they’re showing what they think of members of Congress who use terrorists’ crimes as the excuse to push for more gun control.


One way or the other, though, Americans are continuing to acquire guns at an unprecedented level. The FBI reported this week that in June 2016, firearm-related background checks set a new record for any month of June, up 39% from the number of checks conducted in June 2015.

For the first six months of 2016, checks are up 32 percent over the same period in 2015. If the present rate of checks holds through December, there will be over 32 million checks conducted this year, more than double the number conducted during President Obama’s first year in office. There have been 26.5 million checks during the last 12 months, more than in any 12-month period previously.

NICS checks don’t precisely indicate the number of firearms acquired in a given time frame. But the trend in checks makes clear that Americans are acquiring firearms at a record pace. The annual number of checks has risen from 12.7 million during the last year of President George W. Bush’s administration to an average of 23 million during Obama’s second term.

NICS checks don’t stop criminals from stealing guns or acquiring guns on the black market, and criminals defeat checks by having other people, who can pass checks, buy guns for them. But they continue to deliver data undermining gun control supporters’ perennial boast that gun ownership is declining. If anything, the data suggest that the opposite is true.


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendnent; banglist; guncontrol
Another example of the true 0bama LegacyTM
1 posted on 07/10/2016 7:19:27 AM PDT by PROCON
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To: PROCON

I’ve been busy since 1994 AWB. Much much busier after its expiration after 2004. I don’t need any more guns, or ammo for that matter. Come and effing get them.


2 posted on 07/10/2016 7:22:51 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: PROCON

3 posted on 07/10/2016 7:23:44 AM PDT by Donglalinger
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To: Donglalinger

Good now each buy 500 rounds. Get medical supplies and training in first aid, get a number of off road cyclists to act as cavalry, get a pilot with plane to act as spotter, get drones for looking ahead when a patrol sweeps certain neighborhoods, get body armor, helmets, communication gear etc. Lastly, get leaders and organize.


4 posted on 07/10/2016 7:31:55 AM PDT by AEMILIUS PAULUS
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To: PROCON
Nothing wrong with guns.
People have been murdering each other LONG, LONG before the arrival of the gun. Cain killed Abel...no gun there.
Fire was always a nasssty way to murder.

https://www.scribd.com/doc/8177409/101-Ways-to-Kill-People

1)Suffocation
2)Hanging
3)Paper Cuts Everywhere
4)Shoot them in the head
5)Cut Limbs off slowly
6)Do the Volcano experiment inside them
7)Rusty spoons through liver
8)Paper cut them, then make then take a dip in vinegar
9)Give them one paper cut, then throw them in a pool full of hungry piranhas
10)Make them walk into a building full of Jews and yell ‘Hail Hitler!’
11) Cut their head off (hardly any cleaning up later)
12)Mummify them, alive
13)Deprive them of sleep
14)Cover them in meat sauce and throw them in a cage with an starved tiger
15)Gouge their eyes out with spoons
16)Stick a metal pole through their head
17)Make them walk on burning hot coal
18)Bury them alive
19)Death by cheese grater
20)Throw them in front of a bus (or a really heavy moving object)
21)Make them drink fly spray
22)Make them drink, drink concentrate
23)Make them drink wet cement
24)Make them climb an electrocuted barbed wire fence
25)Wrap them in barbed wire and throw them around
26)Operate on them. Cut out their stomach (careful not to kill them) and makethem eat lots of food
27)Do the whole Sweeny Todd thing, and turn them into meat pies
28)Make them think their in a horror movie and kill them in the end
29)Plant bamboo shoots in their stomachs
30)Feed them tons of ice cream (death by brain freeze)
31)Flash freeze them
32)Fiddle with their iPod when they’re not looking, making the volume really really loud
33)Give them an umbrella and tell them to be Mary Poppins on top of a ten storey building
34)Get them to pose for a photo and drop a pillar on them
35)Genetically modify a Venus fly trap so it grows really big and put them in aroom with it
36)Make them walk into a bee farm without a suit
37)Force feed them McDonalds
38)Tie ropes to their arms and legs, tie the other ends to two jet planes, and fly the jet planes in opposite directions.
39)Death by faulty acupuncture
40)Turn back time and give them a ticket to Titanic
41)Paint their whole body so the paint seals and they can’t breathe
[James Bond, "Goldfinger"]
42)Give them an eyeball piercing

5 posted on 07/10/2016 7:34:58 AM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: PROCON

“...gun control supporters’ perennial boast that gun ownership is declining.”

When what is happening is that fewer gun owners are answering questions about their guns posed by anonymous callers whose motives are uncertain.

Googled this paradox; one HuffPo columnist huffed, “How dare they not answer truthfully! That’s being socially irresponsible, but what do you expect from a bunch of OFWG racist bigots!!?”


6 posted on 07/10/2016 7:45:35 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: PROCON
Obama tried to use the Boston Marathon bombing as an excuse for gun control
7 posted on 07/10/2016 7:49:19 AM PDT by rdcbn ("If what has happened here is not treason, it is its first cousin." Zell Milleraereh)
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To: PROCON

Picked up a Glock 19 just yesterday.


8 posted on 07/10/2016 9:18:26 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: cloudmountain

And in one 6 month period in the 1990’s, 600,000 people were hacked to death by Machetes in Rwanda.

Machete control!/s


9 posted on 07/10/2016 9:20:23 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Red in Blue PA
Did you get a Gen4?

I love mine.

10 posted on 07/10/2016 9:22:48 AM PDT by PROCON (Americans First or Terrorists First - Choose in November)
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To: PROCON

Gen3. Only 499. Don’t need interchangeable backstraps......never really used them on any of my guns which came with them.


11 posted on 07/10/2016 9:31:16 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Galco makes a nice IWB holster for the G19.


12 posted on 07/10/2016 11:10:11 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: tumblindice

I carry a G43 for summer, along with a Sig P238 and LCP for summer carry, depending upon what I am wearing. In the winter I usually carry a Kimber Ultra CDP. So for now, the G19 will be in the safe.


13 posted on 07/10/2016 12:16:56 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Red in Blue PA
And in one 6 month period in the 1990’s, 600,000 people were hacked to death by Machetes in Rwanda. Machete control!/s

Sorry, but you don't make a lot of sense. But, you probably THINK you do. I'm sure you do your best.

What's with the "/s"? Seems you are in a bit of a hurry with your posts. There is no hurry and it NEVER hurts to THINK and re-read what you wrote before you post.

Pax tibi!

14 posted on 07/10/2016 1:15:36 PM PDT by cloudmountain
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To: cloudmountain

Force Feed Them McDonald’s !!?!

Hey don’t knock McD’s !
Best damn fries ,period.
Yeah ,
#37 sucks.
Got a problem?


15 posted on 07/10/2016 5:25:25 PM PDT by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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