The Brits Report On Record American Gun Sales Over The Holidays

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8987359/Americans-buy-record-numbers-of-guns-for-Christmas.html

Americans buy record numbers of guns for Christmas
Americans bought record numbers of guns last month amid an apparent surge in popularity for weapons as Christmas presents.

By Nick Allen,

7:17PM GMT 01 Jan 2012

According to the FBI, over 1.5 million background checks on customers were requested by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System in December. Nearly 500,000 of those were in the six days before Christmas.

It was the highest number ever in a single month, surpassing the previous record set in November.

On Dec 23 alone there were 102,222 background checks, making it the second busiest single day for buying guns in history.

The actual number of guns bought may have been even higher if individual customers took home more than one each.

Explanations for America's surge in gun buying include that it is a response to the stalled economy with people fearing crime waves. Another theory is that buyers are rushing to gun shops because they believe tighter firearms laws will be introduced in the future.
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The National Rifle Association said people were concerned about self defence because police officer numbers were declining.

A spokesman said: "I think there's an increased realisation that when something bad occurs it's going to be between them and the criminal."

But anti-gun campaigners said those who already owned weapons were simply hoarding more of them due to "fear-mongering" by the NRA.

A spokeswoman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence said: "The research we've seen indicates fewer and fewer people are owning more and more guns."

Dave LaRue, of Legendary Guns in Phoenix, Arizona, said Christmas sales were up 25 per cent on the previous year and ammunition sales were also "brisk".

He said: "There are a lot of people concerned about pending gun legislation and the sense about the current administration. People think future availability will be limited and there's a feeling of get it while you can."

The record for gun sales in a single day was set in November, on the day after Thanksgiving, when 129,166 background searches were carried out on customers buying weapons.

Since the near-fatal shooting of congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords by a deranged gunman in Tucson, Arizona last January there have been increasing calls for tighter gun control. Miss Giffords survived being shot in the head with a semi-automatic handgun, and six other people were killed.

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Put that in your tea and drink it.....Sadly when your over run by your Muslim population, you can feel safe knowing your tactical "crumpets" and "Porridge" are at the ready to save your life....

Unless your the Limey's from Liverpool,...they won't go down quietly....

 

[Dakotaranger]

Fewer and fewer owning more guns?!  If the Brady bunch hadn't jumped the shark along time ago...

[JLawson]

I guess, according to this same logic, fewer and fewer gun owners are also collecting more and more concealed carry permits.

[MikeBjerum]

A spokeswoman for the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence said: "The research we've seen indicates fewer and fewer people are owning more and more guns."

Sarah baby is getting her anti-Second Amendment rant confused with her Occupy Wall Street rant 

[Tyler Durden]

why should I give two poops about the British media's interest in our, American, gun buying habits?

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[tombogan03884]

why should I give two poops about the British media's interest in our, American, gun buying habits?

Because it may help them regain their own gun rights.

[Tyler Durden]

I'm sorry, but if that was the intent of the article it was lost in the translation from Oxfordian English to plain ol' A-mer-a-kin.

Don't know about ya'll but anytime I see a British news article about our guns I think a few things:

1.  like all media it has to sensationalize things to get them to sell

2.  Americans sure are bloodthirsty hill billy lot

3.   us Britons are more refined and civilised and subsequently have no need or want of firearms

[tombogan03884]

That may be, but then you are not British.
What they see is we are awash in guns and have no where near their crime rate.

[Tyler Durden]

I hope that is how the British populations see us.

[tombogan03884]

Just like our own, some are blinded by the BS, but the rest have already been robbed in their own homes and know the truth.