DriftingSand
Cast Iron Member
I guess the rush to gun shops has ended. What great news!
In related news, gun ownership is at a all-time low of 35%.Sales of guns and ammo are losing steam after a frenzied run-up sparked by fears of greater restrictions in the wake of the Newtown shooting and other massacres.
Background checks by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, considered to be the most accurate means of tracking gun sales, plunged by a third in January compared to the year before. There were about 1.66 million background checks last month, and nearly 2.5 million in January the year before.
In the past two years, gun shop owners and consumers have complained of ammunition shortages and a dearth in fast-selling semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, even as manufacturing ramped up.
But the shortage appears to be over. "Retail inventories, which had been in short supply last spring, have largely returned to normal now," wrote Rommel Dionisio, a gun industry analyst for Wedbush, in a recent report.
Let's hope this is America recognizing the fringe status of the NRA and their scare tactics.
And finally...a DIRECT CORRELATION between gun ownership and crime!
As the political debate over gun control heats up in the aftermath of the mass killing in Aurora, Colo., here are three important trends to keep in mind: Criminal violence in America has dropped to levels not seen in more than a generation, the percentage of Americans owning guns is down and public support for gun control measures has plummeted as well.
Do fewer Americans own guns now because crime has dropped so much? Or has crime dropped in part because fewer Americans own guns? Has support for gun control gone down because fewer Americans are experiencing gun violence in their daily lives, or because of other factors, particularly partisan differences? Each of those questions is a matter for debate.
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Does a carpenter leave his house without his hammer?
Do most people head off to work without their cars?
Do you leave your house without your ID (excluding election day of course)?
Does a farmer plow his field without his tractor?
Does a liberal leave his home without taking at least one toke from a joint?
Okay ... then a responsible, patriotic Constitutionalist doesn't leave home without his 2nd Amendment rights.