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Posted on 02/10/2022 8:40:10 AM PST by rellimpank
Gun violence has become a regular part of the news headlines this year. Murders in American cities spiked last year, particularly in large cities. Guns were involved in most of these. According to the Gun Violence Archive, there already have been 4,706 gun deaths across the country so far in 2022. Even with more strict gun ownership and purchasing laws, the difficult fact is that about 400 million guns are currently owned by private citizens, the police and the military. The chance that civilians who own guns will turn them into the government, no matter what the incentive, is small. Gun sales, using the NICS Firearms Background Check as a proxy, reached 38,876,673 last year. This was down slightly from the record set in 2020 of 39,695,315.
There are several theories about the sharp rise in gun sales over the past two years. Among them is the violence in American cities during protests. Another is the fear that people might have to protect their property during the pandemic, even if this is absurd.
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Define "need".
I’d bet the average families monthly expenses, for energy, food, health care, etc. have gone up more than the cost of a decent gun.
Most of the guns available now are foreign shotguns and other weird makes. Traditional sellers like S&W et al are backed up on production and there are few and far between retailers who have good ones in stock. Even on gun-sale/trading boards what you see now are the ‘dogs’ people are trying to unload. Just after Christmas, money is tight and alternative suppliers don’t have what people really would want.
That said, there are a buttload of really good guns - lots of them, in fact, sitting in safes and crawly spaces all over America. And Ammo? Yep, it’s out there, too. No good gun lover buys a gun he doesn’t stock up with more ammo than he can use in these times.
I am seeing mucho ammo back in stock at relatively great pricing. 1000 rounds of 9mm for $399.
I think it’s the prices. way too high now. If they drop back down, it’s game on again.
now you average down. :-)
Gee, I wonder what was going on in January 2021 that might have been a factor as to why it may have been higher then than this year.
You only need one gun for CC. The rest should for be for wearing outside your pants. For all the honest world to feel.
Love that song.
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“You mean in January, THE MONTH AFTER CHRISTMAS, when people are more concerned with paying their bills instead of purchases?”
I guess you didn’t read the article.
We will keep ours. I think cold weather and extremely high prices might have impacted January sales. Not the other wishful thinking crap the media projects.
I bought my first gun last January because of the stolen election and Biden becoming President. I think a lot of people did the same, so last January saw a huge increase in gun sales.
American citizens purchased 4,137,480 firearms, which is a rise of 60% over last January. For reference, in 1999, Americans purchased 9,138,123 firearms for the entire year. Gun ownership has exploded since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and the civil unrest that gripped the nation over the summer. Americans watched rioters burn cities and loot businesses throughout the country. This perfect storm of chaos saw the gun market explode. Last year, gun sales hit an all-time high of 39,695,315, a 40% increase over 2019.
One year later, where Uncle Puddin' Head has proven to be laughable, Manchin and Sinema are keeping the Senate in check, SCOTUS shut down the mandate 6-3, and the Administration seems more hopeless than fearsome, sales are up vs 2019 but down from an all-time high. It's perfectly reasonable.
There we’re record sales for 8 years when Obama was destroying g the country in his reign of sorrows. And now record sales under the faux president, and we have one slow month and the bias infested liberal hack writer says that sales have collapsed? Lol whatever msn
That’s exactly why sales have slipped a little. Everything else has gotten massively expensive because of,the faux presidents asinine domestic policies driving the cost of everything. Sky high
That accursed cliche term “gun violence.”-——
Yes. It makes me angry the Left gets away with pushing that phrase everywhere they can. It must get the “journalists’” hands cramped up from having to refrain from typing it when they report a knife slashing of an old woman at her ATM or a beating death by teens of a woman walking home from work. And those pushing into the path of oncoming subway trains, too.
Then it’s back to “gun violence.”
I prefer at least two. I already have one, but a Derringer is only two shots.
Another is the fear that people might have to protect their property during the pandemic, even if this is absurd.Yeah, the idea of widespread civil unrest and roaming hungry zombies out to steal your food is totally absurd. I guess he’s never watched an apocalypse movie.
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