But gun sales are on the decline
Under Obama, NICS checks went up 60%. MRC says gun sales went up by 60%. That number is most likely higher due to lawful gun sales that aren’t required to go through the NICS.
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February 1st, 2017 at 9:17 pm
Then there the guns built on 80% receivers, and other home-builts besides. They are “new aquisitions” you can say, but since they never traded hands they aren’t gun sales at all.
February 2nd, 2017 at 12:33 am
I wonder whether sales actually will drop, now that The World’s Best Gun Salesman Evar is retired. Expect that fact to get seized on, should it happen.
(But the way the Left is behaving suggests that won’t happen. If they aren’t giving us reason to keep buying, THEY might be buying.).
February 2nd, 2017 at 12:54 am
It’s a nit pick in a way, but an important distinction…
Private sales do not show up in nics numbers, but also do not add to national private arsenal.
Dealer pre-owned sales otoh, also do not add to the number of firearms in private hands, but are often counted as such through nics. But then again lots of nics checks are for multiple new gun sales, so it might be a wash.
Point being, while zero absolutely inspired more acquisitions by more citizens than anybody ever, the actual numbers are inexact; nobody really knows the overall number of guns held by our well-regulated militia. Good.
February 2nd, 2017 at 1:11 am
All I know is we need more! We also need innovation or we’ll just have Glock-15s. GR-15 perhaps?
February 2nd, 2017 at 10:52 am
24 states allow gun sales when the buyer has a valid concealed carry permit, and the sale does Not have to go through NCIS. These too, do not show up in the statistics.
February 2nd, 2017 at 12:27 pm
The rapid, ever rising prices for guns, ammunition and range time seems to be the limiting factor for most peoples’ gun ownership and use in the US. I know I’d own more and shoot more if I could afford to do so.
So Obama’s effect on US gun sales is likely many FEWER guns and much LESS ammo were sold than might have been, or could have been, had supply met actual demand without the Obama-induced shortages and price surges.
In making firearms a more expensive exercise of a right, Obama has limited firearm use to criminals, and to those who can afford to participate in the 2nd Amendment legally.
DCM is the acronym that comes to mind as a way to fix this, with “shooting sports” being introduced to every high school in the US at government expense (in my dreams)
February 3rd, 2017 at 9:33 pm
Sorry mikee, that is some of the wrongest logic I’ve ever seen, comepletely bereft of grok as to the whole supply/demand thing.
February 3rd, 2017 at 9:34 pm
@Critter, dang I did not know that, thanks!