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Are you doing your part?
metaldoc:
Just wondering if everyone is doing their part to support these statistics? ;D
--- Quote ---Manasquan, NJ --(Ammoland.com)- Recent statistics released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) report that for nineteen straight months, and that includes all of 2011, American men & women bought over 10,800,000 plus firearms.
This number based on the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System, better know as NICS, and is the adjusted NICS data derived by the NSSF research division subtracting out NICS purpose code permit checks used by several states such as Kentucky, Iowa and Utah for carrying concealed weapon (CCW) permit application checks as well as checks on active CCW permit databases.
The final number, of 10,800,000, is considered conservative by experts because the this number does not account for the multiple purchase of guns at the same time or the guns bought and sold legally, person to person by US residents, which rightly so, do not require a back ground check.
Ten Million new gun owners, in just 2011, should be a wake up call to our current President...
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bk09:
That's it? I thought I bought more guns than that...
RobertH:
good thing there's a gun show in Lincoln this weekend.... ill have to add one to that count. ;D
greg58:
I buy at least 1 a year, I incorporate a "Buy and Hold" philosophy...
Greg58
armed and humorous:
I'm not sure how these figures were compiled, but that may not indicate an increase in gun owners or guns. If these were used guns, then someone else gave them up, and if the buyer was already a gun owner, the total number of gun owners didn't change. However, given the suggested discrepancies in the numbers (private sales, multiple purchases, etc.), it's not hard to believe the total number of gun owners probably did increase to some extent.
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