USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Gun manufacturing has been up by 300% since 2001.
This information is according to documents released by the ATF.
From 1986 to 2001, the number of firearms manufactured remained around three million per year. But since 2001, the number of guns produced each year has exploded to meet the demand of Americans.
Looking at the data, one thing is clear. Gun-grabbing politicians are the best gun salesmen in the world. All you need to do is look at 2013. In December 2012, a mentally deranged man attacked an elementary school leading then-President Barak Obama to call for gun bans.
Americans believed that these misguided bans might make it through Congress. President Obama already said he would sign a ban, so Americans ran out to buy all the firearms they could get their hands on. Nearly 11 million firearms were produced, and those guns flew off the shelf.
Then we have the 2016 election. If you turned on any television network, you would have thought Donald Trump had no chance of beating Hillary Clinton. One of the pillars of Clinton’s platform was gun control. Americans once again believed that the heavy hand of the Government was going to ban certain firearms.
These Americans ran out and cleared shelves of guns. More guns were produced in 2016 than at any time in history. But Donald Trump won. The American gun owner saw Trump as a firewall to any gun control that Democrats in Congress would pass. Gun prices plummeted, and gun manufacturing dropped from 11.5 million in 2016 to 8.3 million in 2017.
It steadily increased since then until 2020, when it exploded once again.
The COVID-19 pandemic broke out. The Government started shutting down businesses and told people where they could and couldn’t go. These tyrannical lockdown orders were coupled with racial unrest in American cities from coast to coast. As Americans were locked in their homes as cities burned, they discovered the meaning of the Second Amendment.
American ran out and bought firearms of all kinds, and firearms manufacturers ramped up production. In 2020, 11.3 million guns were produced to fill the needs of the eight million new gun owners.
ATF Interim Director Gary M. Restaino claims he ordered the release of the data to “prevent diversion of these firearms from the legal to the illegal market.”
Keep in mind that the report didn’t include any crime data. What Restaino did do was give anti-gun groups the information they had begged the ATF to release. But we can also use the data. The support for gun control is at a historic low, and maybe this document shows why.
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We need 300% Iess IiberaIs in America. Or even 3,000%.
I’m not in favor of anything that prevents me from defending me and mine from any threat; rattlesnake to berserker. To me that is what the 2A is all about, and it is why it protects nothing more than the most effective tool we have to provide that defense. Labeling those who don’t understand what this means as “trash” or “socialist scum” does not help them to understand the importance of being able to defend themselves. And gentlemen, that is exactly what we need to do. Think about it! Pissing off your opponent in any fight only makes them less… Read more »
I give you points for attempting to politely bring your anti-civil rights attitude into a forum unforgiving to such ideas. However… “Psychological screening?” Are you suggesting mandatory session with a government approved phycologist at prospective purchasers expense, before purchase can be “approved?” Perhaps you mean all gun owners should be registered and subjected to regular (annual?) examination by such “approved” phycologists? I see no acceptable way to implement such screening. Maybe better option is to require that all in the country (citizen, resident, legal visitor and illegal aliens) get screened every year. If shrink thinks individual has or is likely… Read more »
“Psychological screening” Do you mean prior to be allowed to purchase a firearm – like a federal firearm license? The people who will do that screening believe anyone who voted for Trump is mentally incompetent. Psychological screening prior to firearm purchases will result in the loss of rights for people who should not lose their rights. It also won’t prevent shootings (there are hundreds of millions of firearms available for sale without going through a licensend dealer). “prosecution of straw buyers” How would that have helped to prevent the Robb Elementary school shooting? If you are looking for suggestions, consider:… Read more »
Didn’t take long or the Starship Trooper brigade to show up – 18 hours a day, every day they stand their post here.
Look at all the enforcer posse sock puppet votes this quisling groomer gave himself.
On a gun rights forum:
“We should be the strongest supporters of anything that will prevent more death. Psychological screening, prosecution of straw buyers” (emphasis added)
I would like to know what he thinks about:
Sounds like you support a bunch of stuff that is antithetical to liberty.
Yep. He and his 10 sock puppets.
I think the public has woke to the realization the police are not there to protect them,police did themselves a disservice enforcing covid bs they knew was questionable now people see them as another taxing arm of government… time to arm up to protect your own