So much for background checks......

[samintx]

A search produces many references to this on the net.

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/03/numbe...nder-bush/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2987775/posts

Doesn't seem to have stopped anything.

there are many references to this on the net.

[Black]

samintx wrote:
A search produces many references to this on the net.

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/04/03/numbe...nder-bush/

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2987775/posts

Doesn't seem to have stopped anything.

there are many references to this on the net.

From: The Truth about Gun Sales

When you screen out certain categories of NICS data that clearly do not represent gun sales (pawn transactions, concealed handgun permit checks, administrative oversight), you come up with a very different set of numbers than what is being reported in the national media. The following is a computation of FBI reporting of background checks representing "Handgun Sales," "Long Gun Sales," "Multiple Sales," and "Other Sales" (which the FBI defines as "frames, receivers and other firearms that are not either handguns or long guns...such as firearms having a pistol grip that expel a shotgun shell, or National Firearms Act firearms"). Note the figures in parentheses on the right. These are rates of (potential) gun sales per capita utilizing annual U.S. population data:

2011: 10,037,110 (3,217 per 100,000)
2010: 8,753,555 (2,835 per 100,000)
2009: 8,927,138 (2,907 per 100,000)
2008: 8,426,245 (2,771 per 100,000)
2007: 7,530,727 (2,499 per 100,000)
2006: 7,361,033 (2,467 per 100,000)
2005: 6,935,952 (2,346 per 100,000)
2004: 6,599,292 (2,253 per 100,000)
2003: 6,333,371 (2,182 per 100,000)
2002: 6,347,492 (2,206 per 100,000)
2001: 7,207,720 (2,528 per 100,000)
2000: 7,067,634 (2,504 per 100,000)
1999: 7,857,932 (2,816 per 100,000)

Not sure where the crazy numbers in your linked articles originated, Suzanne, but you've been suckered again.

[OWC Jamie]

14 quarters to go

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/12...71167.html

[Acer]

I go to weaselzippers.us for all my gun control news.

Yes, I just shot the messenger. But I felt threatened.

[Mac-A-Matic]

If gun ownership has been on the decline since 1980, what's the problem?

[Ted King]

samintx wrote:

Doesn't seem to have stopped anything.

I don't understand the point of this thread. Background checks aren't meant to stop the legal buying of guns.

[SDGuy]

Ted King wrote:
...I don't understand the point of this thread. Background checks aren't meant to stop the legal buying of guns.

:agree:

Something to bemoan might be the large numbers of firearms being purchased - but to do that, one would have to delve deeper into the numbers to see what is actually happening.

If the population was static, then, yes, it could be construed as troubling. But demographics change; For example, Millennials (who outnumber Baby Boomers) are entering adulthood; they were preceded by the (relatively) small cohort of Gen X, so just from a raw numbers standpoint, I would expect pretty much any product that young adults can purchase (that they couldn't purchase as youth) to see increased sales compared to ten years ago.

[Mac1337]

In times of tyranny sensible people stock up.

[mattkime]

The Reaver wrote:
In times of tyranny sensible people stock up.

ZING!

[$tevie]

Acer wrote: Yes, I just shot the messenger. But I felt threatened.

-D