U.S.: New Firearms Sales Record

[JohnRich 4]

News:

Long Gun Sales Push U.S. to New Firearms Sales Record

The last time American firearms sales spiked like this (1994), Uncle Billy’s Boys were about to implement the Federal Assault Weapons Ban. Also worth noting: during the period when the AWB was in effect, long gun sales far outpaced handgun sales. In the last three years, the gap between sales of the two genres has narrowed considerably. Thanks to liberalized concealed carry laws, it looks like handguns will outperform long guns (sales wise) in 2010—for the first time since these records were collated by the National Shooting Sports Foundation...

Source, with chart: http://thetruthaboutguns.com/2011/02/robert-farago/nssf-long-gun-sales-push-u-s-to-new-firearms-sales-record/

Note: NSSF is the National Shooting Sports Foundation

Meanwhile, crime is at a 30-year low.

[jclalor 12]

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Meanwhile, crime is at a 30-year low.

[Kennedy 0]

That's an interesting point raised in, I think, Freakanomics. Whether it's accurate or not, I think John's point is that more guns has not led to more crime. It may contribute to there being less crime, or it may be irrelevant, but no one can argue their availability has led to more crime.

Kinda hard to argue for causality when there isn't even a correlation. Unless your last name is Brady...

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