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During a state of the industry presentation at the 2015 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, National Shooting Sports Foundation president Steven Sanetti said background checks for retail gun sales “are up 104 percent since 1994,” yet “violent crimes are at their lowest numbers since 1978.”
Moreover, he said “murders are at their lowest rate since 1968.”
Using the last decade as a microcosm, Sanetti said that as firearm sales “greatly increased…during the last ten years homicides involving firearms…[fell] 46 percent” and “fatal firearm accidents are down 22 percent.”
He then offered this astounding fact: “Fatal firearm accidents…are now less than one percent of all fatal accidents nationwide.” Fatal firearm accidents account for approximately 0.5% of all fatal accidents nationwide.
These facts, coupled with continued strong gun sales, enabled Sanetti to say the gun industry is by no means running from the gun control lobby, “closed-minded legislators [and] sensationalist media.” In fact, he suggested they are in the midst of a charge, not “a retreat.”
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SHOT Show Retail Gun Sales Skyrocket Violent Crime Lowest Since 1978 - Breitbart
During a state of the industry presentation at the 2015 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, National Shooting Sports Foundation president Steven Sanetti said background checks for retail gun sales “are up 104 percent since 1994,” yet “violent crimes are at their lowest numbers since 1978.”
Moreover, he said “murders are at their lowest rate since 1968.”
Using the last decade as a microcosm, Sanetti said that as firearm sales “greatly increased…during the last ten years homicides involving firearms…[fell] 46 percent” and “fatal firearm accidents are down 22 percent.”
He then offered this astounding fact: “Fatal firearm accidents…are now less than one percent of all fatal accidents nationwide.” Fatal firearm accidents account for approximately 0.5% of all fatal accidents nationwide.
These facts, coupled with continued strong gun sales, enabled Sanetti to say the gun industry is by no means running from the gun control lobby, “closed-minded legislators [and] sensationalist media.” In fact, he suggested they are in the midst of a charge, not “a retreat.”
