On October 21, the Washington Post reported their estimate that the number of guns owned in America has doubled in the last 20 years.
They estimate “the average gun owner now owns 8 guns,” whereas the average gun owner owned “4.1 guns” in 1994.
The WaPo estimate sounds reasonable when you consider the fact that the Congressional Research Service reported gun ownership climbed from 192 million firearms in 1994 to 310 million firearms in 2009. Tack another four years of surging gun sales onto those figures, and the suggestion that guns owned doubled in two decades sounds reasonable.
At the same time, there is a significant problem with WaPo‘s estimate. Namely, that they are suggesting the new guns went to people who already owned guns. And doing this allows them to both admit the obvious—gun sales have been through the roof—while continuing to defend the left’s position that news guns are simply going to the same circle of gun owners who have been buying them for years.
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3 comments:
We need them to kill the Nazi Thugs coming to take our guns from us once Hitlery becomes president.
The only way they use these statistics is because of a gun registry that we are told does not exist.
They keep record of everything you buy...I was falsely accused with a protection order, that later was found baseless by the Judge, and tossed out.
However, when they deputies showed up at my door to take my guns pending court ...they had a list of everything I ever bought; although it never listed those traded in or sold to gun shops....
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