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Attention Media: Gun Sales are NOT Collapsing in Illinois
AmmoLand ^ | September 25, 2021 | Dean Weingarten

Posted on 09/27/2022 5:16:13 AM PDT by marktwain

Samuel Stebbins writes for 24/7 Wall St and several other left-leaning organizations such as the NYTs, HuffPost, and MSN.

Mr. Stebbins has written a number of articles involving guns, crime, and statistics. The numbers he cites are usually correct. They are from sources such as the FBI Uniform Crime Reports.

Unfortunately, it is easy to make errors if you do not understand how the numbers are generated. It appears to be the reason for the laughable numbers in Samuel’s most recent article claiming “Gun Sales are Collapsing in Illinois.”

 In Illinois, gun sales are falling even faster than they are nationwide. There were a total of 2,064,400 FBI firearm background checks in the state in the first half of 2022 compared to 6,050,704 in the first six months of 2021 — a 65.9% reduction and the largest decline among states.

Gun Sales are NOT Collapsing in Illinois

The problem with the above statement is background checks in Illinois are only partially connected to gun sales.

I tried to contact Samuel so I could explain the error to him and offer my services if he needs some professional firearms expertise in the future. Unfortunately, a few searches did not turn up an email or a phone number to contact him.

Samuel sights the National Instant background Check System check number, in the article, as a proxy for gun sales trends. There are problems with this.

The FBI carefully notes, when publishing the NIC figures:

“These statistics represent the background checks initiated through the NICS. They do not represent the number of firearms sold.” 


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bulldagger; chicago; gunsales; il; illinois; lorilightfoot; nics; nra; secondamendment
Not understanding how numbers are generated can lead to large errors.
1 posted on 09/27/2022 5:16:13 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Maybe he does understand, and is using that information to push the anti-gun agenda.
Any way people like him can twist the facts, they will.


2 posted on 09/27/2022 5:27:05 AM PDT by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: marktwain

It’s not like the antigun side has a particular allegiance to the truth or to facts. They have narratives, including many absolutely false narratives, to push (such as the “myth of the good guy with a gun”) and they will happily lie to do so.


3 posted on 09/27/2022 5:36:27 AM PDT by coloradan (They're not the mainstream media, they're the gaslight media. It's what they do. )
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To: marktwain

“Samuel sights…”

No. Samuel cites.

L


4 posted on 09/27/2022 5:42:26 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

Gun people tend to use sights LOL


5 posted on 09/27/2022 5:47:55 AM PDT by riverrunner
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To: riverrunner

Well, that’s true.

L


6 posted on 09/27/2022 5:49:07 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: marktwain

With the passage of the SAFE-T bill by Jelly Belly Pritzker, I believe you will see a large increase in the number of new gun owners in Illinois, especially in the Chicago suburbs.


7 posted on 09/27/2022 6:10:17 AM PDT by twoputt
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To: Lurker

Thanks for finding the error. With several automated systems used, multiple ways it may have happened.


8 posted on 09/27/2022 6:33:23 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: twoputt

Does Pritzker remind anybody else as kind of a fat Shemp (the fourth stooge)?


9 posted on 09/27/2022 6:44:14 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Josef Bidenov is out to take out your children. Keep them protected from Bidenov goons.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

He reminds me of Monty Python’s Mr. Creosote.

L


10 posted on 09/27/2022 6:50:07 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: marktwain

Happy to help. Spell check is a blessing and a curse sometimes.

Enjoy your day!

L


11 posted on 09/27/2022 6:50:44 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Lurker

LOL


12 posted on 09/27/2022 6:51:16 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Josef Bidenov is out to take out your children. Keep them protected from Bidenov goons.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Hey, it’s Shemp-tember on MeTV.


13 posted on 09/27/2022 7:41:24 AM PDT by gundog ( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: marktwain

I live in that God forsaken state. I can belive there has been a drop off because many people bought a gun for the first time or maybe a couple of extra firearms..motivated by the left wing rioting in the theater past 2 years. I am going to guess there are loads of people that feel one pistol, one rifle, and one shotgun are enough for the rest of their life. They are not “gun collectors”.


14 posted on 09/27/2022 11:22:07 AM PDT by Lockbar (Even when you think you finally have enough ammo, you still really don't have enough. )
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To: Lockbar
There was a drop-off. It was 22%.

It was not 65.9%.

15 posted on 09/27/2022 3:07:21 PM PDT by marktwain
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To: Lockbar
'I live in that God forsaken state."
I live in a blessed state, Florida. If not blessed by God, at least blessed in belief in the Bill of Rights bequeathed us by our founding fathers. I can't get over how insightful they were. Not being religious, I fear that John Aden was correct: “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.”
16 posted on 09/27/2022 3:30:11 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Hiddigeigei

Aden=Adam


17 posted on 09/27/2022 3:31:19 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Hiddigeigei

Johns Adams.


18 posted on 09/27/2022 3:41:35 PM PDT by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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