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Why Have Gun Sales Dropped So Much?
The Atlantic Wire ^ | July 25, 2013 | Philip Bump

Posted on 07/25/2013 4:03:37 PM PDT by lbryce

n June, the number of background checks conducted by the FBI — a strong indicator of new gun sales — hit its lowest level since September 2011. The figure was down 54 percent from December 2012, in which more background checks were performed than any previous month in history. But why?

There are probably four reasons : Obama, the seasons, gun control, and physics.

Using data from the FBI, we created a chart showing the number of background checks per month. This isn't tied directly to sales; Kentucky, for example, requires a new check at the renewal of a gun permit. But it's a good indicator.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; gunsales; secondamendment
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To: lbryce
Why Have Gun Sales Dropped So Much?

Because those who have wanted them now have them. You can fire only so many weapons at a time. Those that have purchased guns are locked and loaded!

41 posted on 07/25/2013 4:36:57 PM PDT by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: Mastador1

Unemployed and illegals get $750 per month in food stamps for a family of 4. That is more than we spend in a family of four.


42 posted on 07/25/2013 4:38:05 PM PDT by entropy12 (Even tho Obama is now a lame duck, with 2014 House majority, he will be a dangerously socialist!)
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To: lbryce; ChildOfThe60s
The Atlantic, left wing, liberal and anti-gun.
43 posted on 07/25/2013 4:40:46 PM PDT by TYVets
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To: taxcontrol
This is an interesting read on the equipment, presses and dies involved in making ammunition. Although it is dated information, I think the process hasn't changed.

http://archive.org/details/cartridgemanufa00hamigoog

44 posted on 07/25/2013 4:41:09 PM PDT by pterional
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To: lbryce
One reason is new firearms have been in pretty low supply the past 8 months or so.
Another is some of us are plain and simply tapped out. Broke. Busted.
45 posted on 07/25/2013 4:41:25 PM PDT by Tupelo (The Government lies, then the media lies to cover up the government lies.)
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To: lbryce

Perhaps the public is learning that “straw buyers” can work to their advantage as well. Knowing what you now know about the government and its voyeurism and control issues, would you still prefer to buy a gun from someone with a class III BATF&E license, or just a private sale with no background check?

What they call “the gun show loophole”, should instead be called “the gun liberty loophole”. If the government doesn’t know you have it, they can’t confiscate it.

Eventually, when someone is diagnosed with a terminal disease, they might get their medicine subsidized by straw buying guns for resale at a 10% markup. Not a bad price for a “clean” gun.


46 posted on 07/25/2013 4:43:27 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Be Brave! Fear is just the opposite of Nar!)
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To: stormhill

When all this started, I was talking to an ammo manufacturer in Georgia, just west of Atlanta. He had folks buying $10,000 worth at a time. I asked, 10k rounds. Nope, $10k worth. Depending on the ammo they were buying, which was the standard calibers, these folks were buying between 40-50 rounds at a time. And he said they were doing it regularly. That’s a lot of bullets.

No telling what people have anymore.


47 posted on 07/25/2013 4:44:18 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: lbryce

There is seasonality in the gun business, which is being reflected in that graph. The overall trend is up (look at the trend of the peaks).


48 posted on 07/25/2013 4:45:25 PM PDT by Disambiguator
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To: taxcontrol

don’t forget attorney fees because you’ll need an attorney to fight the feds just to get them to issue you a license and then there is also the licensing fee.


49 posted on 07/25/2013 4:46:40 PM PDT by drypowder
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To: lbryce

Bump is an economic dunce who doesn’t understand the concept of “market saturation.” Everybody who wants one, has one now.


50 posted on 07/25/2013 4:47:03 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Justice for Trayvon: Dig up his body and shoot him again.)
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To: stevio

I just got back from a tour of the Yellowstone region. I saw ARs for sale at ALL Walmarts I visited in Nebraska, Utah, New Mexico and Arkansas.

Sorry, no ammo.


51 posted on 07/25/2013 4:49:00 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: lbryce

Everyone has what they wanted. Now as a poster said - stock up on ammo.


52 posted on 07/25/2013 4:49:35 PM PDT by SkyDancer (Live your life in such a way that the Westboro church will want to picket your funeral.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; All

I purchased my weapons when Obama was originally elected....I KNEW what was coming.

And it did.


53 posted on 07/25/2013 4:49:37 PM PDT by Halgr (Once a Marine, always a Marine - Semper Fi)
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To: Halgr

Yeah it became a real party for evil.


54 posted on 07/25/2013 4:50:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Whatever promise that God has made, in Jesus it is yes. See my page.)
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To: lbryce

I imagine private sales have increased proportionately to the number of people who have been pushed into poverty on Obamanomics.


55 posted on 07/25/2013 4:52:20 PM PDT by pallis
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To: Ben Mugged

How many guns can a guy carry..........?


56 posted on 07/25/2013 4:59:11 PM PDT by Average Al
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To: entropy12

Damn, I must have been the wrong damn color when I was unemployed cause that ain’t what I got!


57 posted on 07/25/2013 5:00:08 PM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“You only need so many”

Nonsense, you can never have too many. Guns are money.


58 posted on 07/25/2013 5:03:47 PM PDT by slouper (LWRC M6A2sad)
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To: lbryce

I’ve got all the guns and ammo I need. I’ll run out of food before I run out of ammo and guns.


59 posted on 07/25/2013 5:11:54 PM PDT by Conspiracy Guy (To stay calm during these tumultuous times, I take Damitol. Ask your Doctor if it's right for you.)
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To: taxcontrol; HiTech RedNeck
I’ve researched it.

It’ is about $5,000,000 in startup costs to start ONE LINE of ammo. That is just to produce the cartridges. You still have cost for raw materials (primers, powder, brass), labor costs as well as marketing/branding, shipping, licensing, lawyers, and most importantly Insurance costs.

This is assuming that you are going to produce in enough volume to compete at a national level.

The price sounds about right. I have done some research as well, but much lower capacity. The current problem with producing ammo right now is getting the raw materials. The supply chain at the moment is suffering from unanticipated demand. Take gunpowder for example, which is made of many chemicals. A shortage of one chemical stops the production of certain types of gun powder, which in turn stops the production of ammo that uses that gun powder. There's plenty of brass for cases, copper for jackets, and lead for cores at the moment, but the prices are high. Assembly lines however have not expanded signifcantly because a shortage of powder and primers.

60 posted on 07/25/2013 5:12:15 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Molon Labe - shall not be questioned)
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