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| Author: | IDPA Shooter [ Sun Sep 06, 2009 5:56 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Gun Sales Numbers - quoted from Michael Bane's Blog |
From Ammoland.com: Washington, DC --(AmmoLand.com)- Data released by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,074,757 checks in August 2009, a 12.3 percent increase from the 956,872 reported in August 2008. So far that is roughly 9,076,205 gun bought this year! The total is probably more as NICS background checks may cover the purchase of more than one gun at a time. This latest jump in background checks show that Americans are solidly in-favor of keeping firearms in the hands of law abiding citizens and clearly shows that proponents claiming the USA wants more gun control are blatantly wrong. Gun Owners Say No to Gun Control with their Wallets The increased trend of Americans buying firearms at a record pace was once thought to be a one time fluke caused by fears of the new Obama administration expressed lust for more gun control. But now 10 months in and the wrongly named “fear buying” has now become the norm as law abiding US citizen exercise their constitutional right to keep and bear firearms by the millions every month with no sign of slowing down. The bulk of the buying has been concentrated on the following types of guns or calibers: • Semi Auto Handguns • Revolvers • Ar15s and all variants of the Black Rifle • .50 Caliber 1.17 Guns for Each Person Conservative estimates of legally owned guns in the USA put the number at 355,029,250 million guns in the USA. That is 1.17 guns for everyone in the USA. God bless anyone who tries to invade the USA… Crime Rates Falling The most stunning in all of this is that we have not seen an increase in crime, murder rates have fallen across most of the USA and Americans have shown that they can be trusted with firearms ownership. This is directly in contrast to what the national media and gun control supporters would have us believe. Gun owners you are clearly the majority! Posted by Michael Bane at 12:44 PM |
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| Author: | BigBlue [ Sun Sep 06, 2009 11:01 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gun Sales Numbers - quoted from Michael Bane's Blog |
It seems like either sales are slowing a bit or supplies are increasing lately though. I was at Cabela's the other day and they are getting a lot of stuff back in inventory that was pretty scarce last winter/spring/early summer. Things like AR-style rifles, .223 & 7.62 ammo, etc. Prices certainly aren't coming down though. BB |
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| Author: | Macx [ Mon Sep 07, 2009 10:34 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Gun Sales Numbers - quoted from Michael Bane's Blog |
I am hearing prices on items like Colt 6920 are dropping on the order of $500 at most gun stores . . . Cabela's may not be the best marker of prices as they can afford to keep their prices elevated because they are going to sell plenty of Mossy Oak Breakup and boat anchors anyhow. Independent gun shops need to be much closer to the market rate to get by. |
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