Arizonan with rifle slung at local street vendor. Photo courtesy Dean WeingartenPosted on 04/10/2021 7:10:20 AM PDT by marktwain
Arizonan with rifle slung at local street vendor. Photo courtesy Dean Weingarten
Gun ownership is up in the United States. Record numbers of new gun owners, about eight million, purchased a gun in 2020. In a sensationalist article by the far-left British paper The Guardian, the sub-headline reads:
Americans bought a record number of firearms last year. Gun ownership among Black Americans is up 58.2%
While it may be wished to be true, the headline is both sensationalist and misleading. Here is the paragraph in the article which purports to support the headline. From the guardian.com:
Americans bought a record number of firearms last year. An estimated 5 million people bought their first ever gun between March and August, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), a trade organization, and that number continued to climb throughout the year. Black Americans saw the highest increase in new gun owners of any demographic, the NSSF found, with gun ownership in the group up by a staggering 58.2%.
The first, obvious mischaracterization, is the sleight of hand which changes the increase in gun purchasers into an equivalent percentage increase in gun owners.
The 58.2% increase is based on reporting by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF). The report shows the number of black gun purchasers increased by 58.2% in the first half of 2020.
There is little reason to doubt the mix of customers changed much in the second half. An increase in black customers does not translate into the same increase in black gun owners, white gun owners, Hispanic gun owners, Asian gun owners, or any group of gun owners. To put the increase in black customers in context, the NSSF reported the increases in customers of four groups:
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Preparing for war?
Likely an attempt to scare whites into supporting gun control, so that law-abiding blacks can’t keep arming up. Pathetic.
NO-—KNOWN gun ownership by blacks is up....
The street blacks have had a high number of guns for over 50 years.
The drug gangs will always have guns -it’s the only way they can protect their stashes and money from the other gangs.
And the government can’t stop them from getting guns.
In before the “Wayne’s suits” & “the NRA sucks” zombie attack...
Yes they can
Correction......Yes, the government can stop them
Ownership of guns by law-abiding minorities is up because they can also see the instability of this democrat administration and the corruption ensuing....
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Yes, the specter of the Black Panthers arming themselves resulted in the 1968 gun control act.
However, the law didn't slow down the rising crime rate at the time:
My brother had a clinic appointment in the last month, with a nurse drawing blood and somehow a conversation started up on handguns. She was mid-40s....never owned a gun in her life. He gave her the five-minute introduction....best small pistol for lugging around in a purse, etc. Then he gave her the name of the better shop around town and how the purchase would work, and lectured her on taking their weekend training class.
I think if you went out and just gauged first-time ownership in the past year....probably over 5-million across the US since the Minneapolis episode.
The government can stop gangs from including guns and ammo in their drug shipments?
The government can stop them from giving some Army sergeant a bag of cash to look the other way while they steal a truck full of armaments?
The government can stop gangs from hiring an unemployed machinist to make guns in his basement?
People who don’t care about breaking the law can’t be stopped, except by imprisonment or death.
By “Black Gun” I thought they meant Evil Black Rifle......
Black Gun Ownership up 58.2%Not including the Saturday night specials.
Well, the NRA would suck less without Wayne. And his suits.
Black Guns Matter
Everybody that is smart should have prepared for war at least a decade ago.
Most are late to the party.
Conservatives may assume incorrectly that gun ownership and gun training is their advantage against the Great Reset.
UK Media as whole is biased against the Legacy Constitutional Aristocrat rejecting US of A, and use their out-of-America position to publish news in a manner that Denigrates Legacy America while publishing some news suppressed and censored by American Mainstream Media thus appearing to be more "unbiased".
The Second Amendment and Liberty has no friends in any Government, Media, "Journalism", Entertainment or "Intellectual Elitists" anywhere in the world.
Freedom of False witness for Me, no freedom at all for Thee.
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