A little looking shows just how much gun sales are fading:As household gun ownership has dropped dramatically since the early 1970s and America’s youth turn away from guns, the SHOT Show is proof of the gun industry’s embrace of increased lethality to shore up its fading market and declining sales.
Violence Policy Center
January 13, 2011
"Peaking", maybe. When the January stats come out we'll see if the shootings in Tucson had any noticeable effect.Meanwhile, Rep King (RINO-NY) has proposed a law that would prohibit carrying a gun within 1000 ft of a high government official, such as a politburo member. This raises the question of how, exactly we're supposed to tell we're within 1000 feet of such an august presence?
Folks, it's only hard when the wind is blowing the wrong direction. Downwind, it's easy.
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We could tell the men congressmen by the way their "hair is perfect" (thank you Warren Zevon) and their faces are so smooth like little baby's butts. The women I am not so sure of as most of the ones you see on TV are dried up old crones, bitches too.
> As household gun ownership has dropped dramatically
> since the early 1970s and America’s youth turn away from guns,
> A little looking shows just how much gun sales are fading:
The VPC statement and the graph are not mutually exclusive.
The number of NICS checks does not indicate how many households, or how many youth, are new gun owners.
If somebody who already owns one, or several guns, purchases another gun, it counts as a NICS check, but not as a new gun owner.
Even if the number of gun sales increases, it is possible for the number of gun owners to decrease.
The disclaimer that goes with the graph is that not all NICS checks represent a gun sale, and not all gun sales generate a NICS check. Still, even allowing for this, the number of checks is indicative of increasing sales.
New guns are sold exclusively by dealers, who always run a check. Used guns are sold through a variety of means including person-to-person sales which generate no NICS record.
The NICS rejection rate runs about 1-2%, and I have a hard time seeing people getting one just for the fun of it.
But that doesn't refute anything I said.
Increasing sales does not necessarily equate to increasing gun ownership, if the sales are to people who already own guns.
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