Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns In 2011

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<span style="font-weight: bold">Free Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns in 2011 — Message Don't F-With The USA

Law abiding Americans now easily qualify as the most heavily armed population in the world.</span>

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Recent statistics released by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) report that for nineteen straight months, and that includes all of 2011, American men & women bought over 10,800,000 plus firearms.

This number based on the FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System, better know as NICS, and is the adjusted NICS data derived by the NSSF research division subtracting out NICS purpose code permit checks used by several states such as Kentucky, Iowa and Utah for carrying concealed weapon (CCW) permit application checks as well as checks on active CCW permit databases.

The final number, of 10,800,000, is considered conservative by experts because the this number does not account for the multiple purchase of guns at the same time or the guns bought and sold legally, person to person by US residents, which rightly so, do not require a back ground check.

Ten Million new gun owners, in just 2011, should be a wake up call to our current President who continues to play dumb that his hate of bible clinging, gun toting American Values, like hunting & owning guns will not be tolerated. His and Eric Holder’s “under the radar” plan to sell guns to evil Mexican Gun Cartels in an effort to set up the Second Amendment as the fall guy now has ten million people angry at him.

If just one current Presidential candidate (Ron Paul aside..) could prove his sworn support for the Second Amendment, and the constitution for that matter, and rally our forces behind him he would be swept into the white house on a massive wave of support. Can you say Ted Nugent?

<span style="font-weight: bold">So what does 10,800,000 look like?</span>

The guns purchased by American men & women in 2011 is more than one gun for every active duty military member in the worlds fourteen largest armies combined.


<ul style="list-style-type: disc">[*]Russia     Russian Federation    1,027,000[*]North Korea 1,106,000[*]South Korea 687,000[*]Vietnam 455,000[*]India 1,325,000[*]China 2,285,000[*]Iran 523,000[*]United States 1,468,364[*]Republic of China 290,000[*]Brazil 327,710[*]Pakistan 617,000[*]Egypt 468,500[*]Cuba 49,000[*]Ukraine    129,925[/list]
Above Total = 10,758,499
*Source Wikipedia: http://tiny.cc/tl4d8

If you assume an average length of each gun as two feet that would be 4090 miles of guns.  That is fourteen times the length of the Grand Canyon and all most twice as long as the Mississippi River and 17,280 times higher than the Empire State Building.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Hello, I am an Ammo Horder?</span>
So let assume each new gun owner buys 2000 rounds of Ammo (a single brick of 22lr is 500 rounds and my kids can burn that up in an afternoon) , times that by our conservative estimate of 10,800,000 firearms your get 21,600,000,000…that is trillion with a “T”.

That is a lot of lead and other raw materials and you wonder why we are paying so much for Ammo these days? And I see no let up in sight because if you are like me you think to yourself that when the liberal news media reports that some guy is stopped at the airport with “1000 Rounds on him”.. that dude was almost out of ammo?

Ammunition retailer Frank Brownell of Brownells.com, predicts “[2012] will most assuredly be another year for the growth of ammunition sales. An astronomical year of ammunition sales” .

This is the one sector of our national economy that I would agree to a Federal Stimulus package, maybe each US family can get a tax credit to purchase 10,000 rounds of ammo as a part of emergency preparedness program.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Speaking of America Industry</span>
American gun manufacturing is one of the first and last great US industries.

It was Eli Whitney, yeah the guy who made the cotton gin, who was one of the first manufacturers in the world to carry out standardization of manufactured parts.

As early as 1798, Eli Whitney had turned his talents to the manufacture of firearms. He had established his machine shops at Whitneyville, near New Haven, CT and it was there that he worked out the principle of standardization or interchangeable parts.

Standardization is the foundation of all large-scale production. Manufacturers produce separately many copies of every part of a complicated machine like firearms on an assembly line. Standardization also allowed current owners of guns to order and replace any broken or lost part, taking it for granted that the new part would fit easily and precisely into the place of the old.

In effect the manufacture of firearms is the spark that brought to life American Manufacturing and it is that same industry today that still makes almost all its products in the USA, using raw materials, machinist and labor to turn out some of the best made products on earth, namely Guns. Guns made by American workers in American factories for American consumers.

<span style="font-weight: bold">Guns and Freedom</span>
Guns and gun ownership represent the core of elements of freedom and of the constitution. Without the Second Amendment there would be no protection for all the other god given rights we are reminded of by our constitution. Just as we teach our children the value of voting or free speech we should also be teaching them.. get ready, aim and fire, repeat.

I am glad to see so many of my fellow Americans decided to exercise their right to keep and bear arms over the last year and I hope we continue to see record growth in gun ownership in the year to come. America, Hell Yeah!</div></div>

Source — Ammo Land
 
Re: Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns In 2011

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: KillShot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">
<span style="font-weight: bold">Hello, I am an Ammo Horder?</span>
So let assume each new gun owner buys 2000 rounds of Ammo (a single brick of 22lr is 500 rounds and my kids can burn that up in an afternoon) , times that by our conservative estimate of 10,800,000 firearms your get 21,600,000,000…that is trillion with a “T”.
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I dunno about yall, but I think that is "billion" with a "B"...
 
Re: Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns In 2011

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: KillShot</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Free Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns in 2011 — Message Don't F-With The USA

Law abiding Americans now easily qualify as the most heavily armed population in the world. </div></div>

Sadly I bet 10,790,000 of them can't shoot worth shit, at least judging by what I see at ranges...

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The guns purchased by American men & women in 2011 is more than one gun for every active duty military member in the worlds fourteen largest armies combined.


Russia Russian Federation 1,027,000
North Korea 1,106,000
South Korea 687,000
Vietnam 455,000
India 1,325,000
China 2,285,000
Iran 523,000
United States 1,468,364
Republic of China 290,000
Brazil 327,710
Pakistan 617,000
Egypt 468,500
Cuba 49,000
Ukraine 129,925


Above Total = 10,758,499
*Source Wikipedia: http://tiny.cc/tl4d8</div></div>

Apparently the "Republic of China" is Taiwan, I had to Google that one.
 
Re: Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns In 2011

I get where they got the US data, but how did they get China and North Korea data? I didn't think those countries were particularly open to sharing.... anything.

I have met a number of Chinese gentlemen in my job and everyone of them are amazed at my guns. It first came up showing pictures of my 50bmg and one guy said they werent allowed in China. I said, "yeah there are places here where they arent allowed either." He replied, "No, I mean we're not allowed to own any guns at all." Thats when I said GO AMERICA!!!

So do those numbers reflect purely personal gun pur hases overseas or does it include military?
 
Re: Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns In 2011

That's based on NCIC checks, what about states where the CC permit holder skips the NCIC check, or face to face sales with no dealer involved.

Wonder how many were really sold.
 
Re: Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns In 2011

All I have to say is one word

'merica

Now back on subject, I added to the pile as well with the purchase of a Remington 700 and a Savage model 16, maybe this means better legislation for us gun owners, but then again all those people buying guns could mean the lawyers might want to regulate it better
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Re: Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns In 2011

I bought three guns (2 at one time however so it only counts as two total), and about 400 rds of ammo..yeah, b/c I bought the hoarding supply in january of 2009, the day before INaguration in fact..


But that 10 million number is on ly the RECORDED transactions...paperless transfers probably make up another 30% of that.
 
Re: Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns In 2011

Two thousand rounds of ammo is excessively high. Most “hunters” around here are lucky if they put 40rds down range a year and most of that would be only at 100yds from a bench. Even handgun shooters would be pressed to fire over 300rds.

Now 22lr shooters might get that high. Most of the guys I work with only get out one maybe three times a year. Even if they fired a box of deer gun ammo 50 rds from the hand gun and lets go crazy 550rds from a 22lr that is still only 1,860 rds. That is if they get out three times.


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Re: Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns In 2011

death's in the US...
1700 per year by gun
125,000+ per year by doctor
The per capita numbers are well over 6 million for gun owners, and less than 250,000 for doctors. The percentage numbers were 0.0017 for guns, and .16 or something for doctors...can't locate the information again, but the source was USG Human something or other...probably an email going around with the same figures too
 
Re: Americans Buy 10,800,000+ Guns In 2011

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: LibertyOptics</div><div class="ubbcode-body">That is our saving grace. Many of these need good optics to shoot straight! Hope we get our fair share
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The optic price goes into every equation for my new rifle purchases... even plinkers. Funny thing is that it still has zero effect on talking myself out of making the purchase.