Posted on 08/14/2024 12:46:13 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reported last week an astounding milestone: Every month of every year for the last five years Americans have purchased more than one million firearms. The group estimates that 86 million firearms were purchased during that period ending in July, and that 22 million of them were purchased by new owners.
That brings the total to approximately 510 million firearms owned by more than 82 million American citizens.
The news gets even better: Gun owners outvote non-gun owners by double digits. Four out of five of them said they voted in the last presidential election. If that holds for 2024, more than 65 million of them will vote in November. And most of them, according to scholars on both sides of the issue, will vote Republican.
The news gets still better. Vote4America is working feverishly to register gun owners who haven’t registered to vote. In battleground states of Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona, there are presently more than 800,000 gun owners who aren’t registered. In the highly suspect 2020 election, Trump allegedly lost those three states by just 44,000 votes.
Joe Bartozzi, NSSF’s president and CEO, celebrated the milestone:
These million-plus monthly background checks over the past five years represent the free expression of Second Amendment rights during tough and troubling times, including the COVID-19 pandemic when certain governors were shuttering gun stores and the Biden-Harris administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy to revoke licenses to sell firearms.
During this time, Americans who never previously considered lawful firearm ownership decided to become gun owners. We’re proud of our industry’s work to provide the means to exercise those rights to law-abiding citizens across the country.
Those gun-purchase numbers are likely far too conservative. Background checks are run on potential gun buyers and not on the number of ...
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Well, I’ve got my share.....or do I? 🤔
I wonder how many firearms the state and federal government bought.
Thats like 50 million or something......
I disagree with the riot prediction post Trump’s election victory.
He’s a known entity who has been in the news everyday since 2016.
We can do better than that.
BLOAT.
I have friends who never owned a firearm before but decided to get one this year. They decided they had to be their own first responder.
I miss my firearms. That darn kayak.
Keep up the good work, patriots.
If you know how many firearms you own, you don’t own enough.
The truth is, no one, including the government has a clue where all the guns are. That’s because, as dads and grandpa’s pass away, their guns are given to family members. Most people don’t bother with transferring ownership, so slowly the gun’s whereabouts become unknown. And that’s a good thing.
Onward Christian Soldiers.
I was talking with a long retired DEA agent yesterday. The subject of Secret Service Barbie came up. He was horrified at her lack of pistol handling skills, her inability to holster her sidearm. Should have been pure muscle memory, something done without looking.
I don’t own a ‘single’ gun.
Single action?
As in ‘just one.’
Democrats will want to hire thousands more ATF to confiscate them.
Boat disaster!
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