Posted on 04/26/2014 4:17:11 AM PDT by rellimpank
Guns continue to do a booming business, with the industry making, selling and importing firearms at the highest level in at least a quarter-century, according to a new federal report.
The report also reveals the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives inspected fewer than 10% of the roughly 140,000 federal gun dealers in the nation — a seven-year low — as the agency struggles to fulfill its goal of inspecting all dealers every five years.
ATF's Firearms Commerce in the United States report, released this week, shows 8.6 million guns were manufactured in the U.S. in 2012, the most recent year available. That was a 31% increase in just one year. U.S. gun production nearly doubled since 2008 and nearly tripled since 1986, the report says.
Beyond domestic production, the U.S. imported 4.8 million guns in 2012. Last year, 5.5 million firearms were imported.
All categories of gun manufacturing grew, but handgun production jumped the most, the report showed.
Experts differ on the reason for the spike, suggesting it is due to safety concerns, fear over possible federal restrictions of firearms or simply increased interest in shooting and hunting.
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Myself, I just like buying guns, low end collector that will never be done buying dies bullets & brass for my new calibers. Boy do I like older well worn hunting guns that I have personally watched local Indians kill more fresh meat with than one could imagine, grandfather guns; buy them all too.
I buy a couple Ars every year, got a 308 Scar & MP 10 of late; and looking for a late 60's model 88 308; anybody got one?
Ain't any gun owners going to part with their guns, no matter what Big Ears has to say, be upheaval & change when it comes to that form of Government. You'd think the Dems would finally figure that out and make the crooked Republicans actually do something to win elections.
There’s a video a dealer made of a new Marlin 39A vs an old one. The new one had poor edges, loose fitting stock, and cycled rough. The current big boys are running it like a widget business. Get them out the door and don’t worry. Used to be matching numbers on bolt and receiver meant they were custom fit for best results.
I recently got hold of a brand new Kel-tec PMR 30. I only loaded the mags with the ammo they suggested and I only loaded them 2/3 full (20 rounds). Every 2nd or 3rd round jams consistently over multiple magazines. I sent it back to Kel-tec on January 6. It is still there for repair. They only say 4 more weeks when I have my dealer call them.
My guess is that they’re competing with the ATF in getting my silencer stamp back which took 12 months.
Get there early, and you can likely buy three bricks every delivery day.
Yes you are right. Mr. GG2 field strips a weapon right on the counter before buying.
Obama lied about Health Care to get it passed and he'll lie to take our guns away. Obama thinks the ends justify the means. A person stupid enough to take Obama at his word is either a fool or a journalist - hence the above quote...
Four brand new ones just this year.
Ruger SP 101 for CCW.
Savage Model 111 in .308 for long range social work. Great value package with a nice factory fit Nikon scope for less than $400.
2 each 10/22 Take Down for the trunk of our cars as an addition to the Get Home Bags Mrs. L and I each have.
Love that little Ruger. Cabelas had them on sale for $309 a copy. I watched them sell 5 while I was picking ours up. Put a 4 x 32 Nikon on them, dropped 525 rounds of Federal 36 gr HP into the convenient pouch on the Ruger pack it came with. 4 per loaded Ruger 25 round mags into the section designed for it and we have a darn fine “Oh crap!” rifle for the truck. The whole thing fits right next to the spare tire underneath the cargo area of our suburban assault vehicles. LOL.
Plenty of room in there for a few other goodies, too. Knives, compasses, beef jerky, power bars, water bottles, para cord, Bic lighters, flashlight, emergency blankets, tarps, multi-tools, etc. nice complement to the other BOB we keep in our vehicles.
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I wish FR would accept gun advertisements. They are so comforting.
“...Why can’t I walk in and buy 22 longs?”
Because 22 Longs, rigorously speaking, have not been in demand much. The last guns made in this country chambering those cartridges, and those only, went out of production before 1914.
If Art is thinking of 22LR (Long Rifle, postdating the Long by several years and today’s most common rifmire cartridge), there are plenty of factors that constrain higher production rates.
Ammunition manufacture is more complicated, risky, and exacting than gun manufacture. Profit margins are also lower, and raw materials have become tougher to obtain, in great measure thanks to foreign competition.
A rimfire cartridge is less complex and less powerful, but making of rimfire ammunition is more complex and dangerous than other types, while promising less return on investment.
Contrary to what many forum members apparently believe, demand has increased a great deal recently, especially since the school shooting in Connecticut.
Many assume - breezily - that ammunition producers can expand to meet demand without much delay, fuss, or expenditure. Not so: producers were turning out cartridges at top rates before 2012. Going higher would entail more headaches.
New ammunition plants, and production machinery needed to equip them, are more costly and take longer to build than in any other sector of the gun industry.
Such problems must be confronted by established manufacturers who already know what they are doing; entrepreneurs and other hopefuls not yet in the business face all the same problems, plus many more (learning the trade themselves, finding and training workers, securing their own raw materials, attracting a customer base, forging a reputation).
Depressingly, no bad situation exists which cannot be made worse by government regulation. Workplace safety rules, labor compliance rules, environmental regulation
(just to name a few) all pose more problems for ammunition manufacture than the making of most other products that might be of interest to the gun buying public.
And this infers that the regulators are knowledgeable, interested, and honest. Dare we assume so these days?
Since the regulatory establishment has been captured by Leftists and radical environmental interests, one can longer assume regulators are friendly. They pose even greater problems for ammunition producers, new and old.
“—I was under the impression that nobody manufactured .22 “longs” anymore —I am 73 and haven’t seen anything but “shorts” and “long rifles” most of my life-—”
Longs (22 Short bullet in the case for 22LR {latter came along nearly a decade after the Long, and some three decades after the Short}) left routine production some time back. No new guns firing Longs (and those only) have been produced since World War I or so.
CCI has been turning out 22 CB Longs in small batches: low pressure, low velocity, safe for the older guns. Or they did until the most recent market scrambles.
The American people are sending a message to Uncle Bloomberg, “Pony up more cash, Old Man. It’s going to take a helluva lot more than a measly $50 million to stomp out the 2nd in America!”
I have a few bricks in my collection that have been there for years. I usually buy three boxes of 50 at a time and when available. I keep enough to do some target practice when I go to the range or the farm and far from a hoarder.
Last time I went to WALMART, I just happened to ask about the bricks. The guy told me, "You can buy three boxes or three bricks if you come in early". It's their policy to sell no more than three of either to a customer at that store.
We left Crawford Co in 90’s, didn’t know you couldn’t use reloaded ammo. I highly doubt anybody respects that law anyway. Kinda funny actually.
—excellent post—
.38 Special is 25 cents/rd all day long....30 cents if you’re blind and slow.
>http://www.gunbot.net/ammo/pistol/38special/<
Consider changing caliber or reloading.
If you have been saving your brass over the years, it is relatively inexpensive to reload, if you switched to 9mm, I’ve seen steel cased ammo for less than $10 a box.
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