Posted on 03/13/2017 4:25:03 PM PDT by richardb72
During the 8 years he was president, Barack Obama’s administration experienced an explosion in gun sales, with annual background checks more than doubling between 2008 and 2016. In the eighteen months leading up to the 2016 election, gun sales set one new record after another.
So when a pro-Second Amendment candidate won the election most observers figured that gun sales would at last begin to drop. But it hasn’t worked out that way.
Conventional wisdom held that the sharp rise in gun sales over the course of Obama’s presidency was supposedly driven, at least in part, by the threat of gun control. That’s why everyone expected gun sales to decline after Trump’s victory. Yet, the average monthly gun sales from November through February are up from the already very high level in October.
In fact, there was a large increase in gun sales immediately following the election. November had a record-setting month for FBI background checks. On Black Friday, there was a single day record of 185,713 checks. While December sales were not quite at record levels, they were still the second highest monthly total ever. January’s and February’s sales data slipped below last January’s and February’s, but they were still the second highest January and February sales on record.
Anecdotal stories right after the election suggested that people — particularly minorities — might be buying guns out of fear of a Trump presidency. The National African-American Gun Association saw a 7% increase in members just over the Thanksgiving weekend. NBC News contacted gun storeowners who reported seeing up to four times as many black and minority customers. The Liberal Gun Club says that its membership is up 10%.
There were other signs that gun control was losing popularity. . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
He needs a new wife.
She was right, the gun got him in trouble because she made it happen. Based on what you said, my sympathies are with him too.
I dunno! I mean “Kycats”, c’mon. Could be a case of “No hint of irony.”
FAKE NEWS.
Colt 45 Malt liquor sales also went up. So what?
There are people with sufficient arms and ammo in the Ozarks who can pretty much slay every minority to the third and fourth generation.
Good that women and minorities are getting into the game, but they might want to just keep their shooting choices to close-in personal protection and not insurrection.
Personal perfection if you can confidently carry as a woman. Takes training.
I sold a gun to a flaming liberal at work. He now says he is in Florida and he does not care, castle doctrine and he shoots the intruder. lol
He still says we do not need 100 round mags... just like I do not need 500 pounds of rice but why should to the gov ration me?
But now that he is in with a gun, he is starting to talk like a real man a bit more, understanding the stakes. He says the 10mm Delta Elite was a loud head turner at the range and seemed pretty proud of impressing “red necks” lol
Why don’t you actually read the op-ed? If you did, you would see that there is hard evidence in the piece. One of my pet peeves is people commenting on these pieces WITHOUT READING them.
Why don’t you actually READ THE PIECE? Why comment on a piece that you obviously haven’t even read?
“which he kept in a case for crying out loud, and she TURNED HIM IN.”
Why was his human right to self defense being infringed?
Was he a felon?
There are many many more than 300,000,000 guns in the USA
I’ve bought a few since his election ... getting them before the prices go up. Of course the media bias would not consider that a factor ...
In doing a little fact checking it appears about 1,000,000 guns were sold in Cali in 2016. That's a far cry from 100,000,000.
Despite the best efforts of the state assembly of communists in Sacramento, California is still the largest gun market in the USA. BTW, where did you get your figures from?
That's a conservative estimate. But it's an oft quoted number
As far as the program intimated, he was not a felon, but of course, he did not “go through channels” in his exercise of his human right to possess a firearm. This is only my perception and my presumption ... based on a very vivid, yet implicitly unreliable memory of the TV show.
Thanks.
The media do seem to be trying to create a perception that the things they hope for already exist.
“Sir, do you have a permit for that shotgun?”
“The police found a pistol in his closet and arrested him.”
“Well, we can arrest him for the gun in the trunk.”
Morons. Worse, lying morons.
Thanks.
The media do seem to be trying to create a perception that the things they hope for already exist.
“Sir, do you have a permit for that shotgun?”
“The police found a pistol in his closet and arrested him.”
“Well, we can arrest him for the gun in the trunk.”
Morons. Worse, lying morons.
She made sure it got him in trouble. Gotta love those that do you an unwanted favor
Almost 100 million guns sold in CA last year,
That is an interesting figure. Could you explain where you got it? I have not been able to find a source.
There are many many more than 300,000,000 guns in the USA
http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2017/01/2016-guns-by-numbers.html
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