Another Million Guns, Nearly

 

1. I’ve read that since last December, over 6 billion rounds of ammunition have been sold to citizens in the US. Also, sales of foods with virtually unlimited shelf life has risen nationally about 4 percent.  It takes more than a bunch of survival types to do that.  People are worried and they’re starting to prepare for the worse.

   Posted by BobF       08/18/2009  at  09:30 PM  



2. Guns that don’t wear out are not shot enough. If you don’t use your tools often enough, you get out of practice and inaccurate.

   I’m as bad as many - haven’t shot at anything in months - and I’ve got a range out back - I’m ashamed of myself.

   A note on Brady checks - sometimes, a customer will get a check done, and not complete the sale. Rare, but it happens. At least the 4473 forms don’t ever go to the gov’t unless the ATF or someone comes to make a copy of one, or the dealer goes out of business. Knowing the ATF’s legendary record keeping abilities with Class III paperwork, I would imagine many of the 4473s they DO have on file are lost or otherwise unusable.

   Chuck Kuecker

   Posted by Chuck Kuecker       08/19/2009  at  08:52 AM  



3. Chuck adds good info.

   I wanted to point out that ~104m guns in ~11 years comes out to 9.45m guns per year.  Given the fact that most gunnies I know have stuff that belonged to Grandpa - in addition to what they bought, even though our population is growing there’s still likely to be pushing a BILLION guns in the US.

   I and most every man I know has 10+.

   I’d bet a year’s pay that the “90 million” is under by a factor of 10 or more.

   DD

   Posted by Dedicated_dad       08/20/2009  at  08:40 PM  

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