Sales Prove Support for Gun Ownership Not Polls
Dec 17, 2016 17:31:15 GMT -5
Post by Michael Downing on Dec 17, 2016 17:31:15 GMT -5
And sense they are counting background checks that doesn't include all the sales to persons with concealed carry permits that don't need background checks.
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Sales Prove Support for Gun Ownership Not Polls
Firearm sales continue to rise in the United States, with more Americans than ever investing in guns for a variety of reasons. From personal protection and home defense to recreational target shooting and hunting to collecting as an investment, increasing numbers of citizens are purchasing guns.
On Black Friday 2016, the FBI processed 185,713 background checks through their National Instant Criminal Background Check System, breaking last year’s record by about 400 checks. Leading up to November’s Presidential election, gun retailers nationwide reported record sales in the month of October.
Gun sales in the U.S. have risen steadily for 18 consecutive months, with the post-election Black Friday boom serving as an exclamation mark trumpeting the fact that Americans are passionate about their Second Amendment freedoms and are more excited than ever to take advantage of those rights. More guns have been sold in the U.S. in the 2016 than any other year in history.
Yet somehow, biased media outlets, still stinging from the embarrassment of being totally humiliated in their baseless election coverage, continue to weave a false narrative about American gun owners, citing unscientific polls painting gun owners as a tiny, insular contingent of arms hoarders–“super-owners”–while “a majority” of Americans are hungry for stricter gun control laws.
While anti-gun groups scramble to manufacture polling data illustrating the “truth” of an increasingly pro-gun control society, we choose to look rather at the hard data.
Gun sales continue to set records, as witnessed over the past 18 months of increases–fact. Sales jumped a whopping 17 percent from September to October of this year, a full 18 percent ahead of then-record-setting, since-shattered sales a year prior.
blog.cheaperthandirt.com/sales-prove-support-gun-ownership-polls/
Sales Prove Support for Gun Ownership Not Polls
Firearm sales continue to rise in the United States, with more Americans than ever investing in guns for a variety of reasons. From personal protection and home defense to recreational target shooting and hunting to collecting as an investment, increasing numbers of citizens are purchasing guns.
On Black Friday 2016, the FBI processed 185,713 background checks through their National Instant Criminal Background Check System, breaking last year’s record by about 400 checks. Leading up to November’s Presidential election, gun retailers nationwide reported record sales in the month of October.
Gun sales in the U.S. have risen steadily for 18 consecutive months, with the post-election Black Friday boom serving as an exclamation mark trumpeting the fact that Americans are passionate about their Second Amendment freedoms and are more excited than ever to take advantage of those rights. More guns have been sold in the U.S. in the 2016 than any other year in history.
Yet somehow, biased media outlets, still stinging from the embarrassment of being totally humiliated in their baseless election coverage, continue to weave a false narrative about American gun owners, citing unscientific polls painting gun owners as a tiny, insular contingent of arms hoarders–“super-owners”–while “a majority” of Americans are hungry for stricter gun control laws.
While anti-gun groups scramble to manufacture polling data illustrating the “truth” of an increasingly pro-gun control society, we choose to look rather at the hard data.
Gun sales continue to set records, as witnessed over the past 18 months of increases–fact. Sales jumped a whopping 17 percent from September to October of this year, a full 18 percent ahead of then-record-setting, since-shattered sales a year prior.