P5 Guy
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Yes, the same folks are buying more than their fair share of firearms. I know I haven't bought a firearm since 2013. And now all the ammunition for that firearm has been sucked into a blackhole somewhere.
[sarcasm on] Of course firearm ownership is declining. That clearly explains the constant downward spiral of NICS checks and the glut of ammunition on all the gun store shelves. [sarcasm off]
This is monthly NICS data from Jan, 2007 through Feb 2015.
If people aren't buying guns, who's running up the background check totals?
Irrespective of the polling criteria or the source, the results just seem illogical. Based on the financial and volume performance of leading gun manufacturers in the past 3-4 years which have seen sales revenue and volume at record or near-record rates, it's hard to imagine that people are discarding their guns at an even-greater rate. Assuming this is so, it is not possible for the total of guns owned in the U.S. to be in decline....
JSH1 said:It is entirely possible for the number of households with guns to be in decline while gun manufacturers are seeing record sales. It all depends on who is buying guns. Is it new owners buying their first gun or existing owners filling the safe and then buying another safe to fill. I see a lot of the later, existing owners buying more guns.