Theft of guns are a reality of this culture. The more guns on the street, the more thefts are an option to kill and/or carry out crime.
Victimizations (click here) involving the theft of firearms declined from 283,600 in 1994 to 145,300 in 2010 (figure 1). Overall, about 1.4 million guns, or an annual average of 232,400, were stolen during burglaries and other property crimes in the six-year period from 2005 through 2010. Of these stolen firearms, at least 80% (186,800) had not been recovered at the time of the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) interview....
Friday, January 11, 2013
Tony Rizzo | The Kansas City Star
To the nation’s gun lobby and gun rights advocates, (click here) the Obama administration is public enemy No. 1.
Yet the president has proven to be a boon for gun sales.
In the four years since Barack Obama was first elected president in November 2008, an estimated 67 million firearms have been purchased in the United States. That’s more than were sold in almost seven years before his first election.
Now come concerns that Obama will push through stricter gun laws — although in four years he’s yet to push for them.
With Obama starting a second term in office — and anti-gun fervor stoked by shooting massacres in Aurora, Colo., and Newtown, Conn. — an unprecedented surge in the sales of firearms has taken off.
December 2012 saw a record-shattering number of requests for criminal background checks on prospective gun buyers — more than 116,000 of those from Kansas and Missouri alone.
“Since Obama was re-elected,” said Gary Jessup of UT Arms in Kansas City, Kan., “it’s been off the chart.”
Nationwide, more than 2.7 million of those checks were recorded for December, according to statistics kept by the FBI. Since late 1998 when federal law began mandating such checks for prospective gun buyers, the only other month that exceeded the 2 million mark was November 2012 — when Obama won a second term....
The NSSF is another NRA using fear tactics to bolster membership and it's mission. Watch the video at this link. "Guns are disappearing along with cultural changes and loss of family traditions."
The NSSF records a great deal of gun data and were responsible for reporting the "Obama Surge."
About the National Shooting Sports Foundation (click here)
The National Shooting Sports Foundation is the trade association for the firearms industry. Its mission is to promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of more than 8,000 manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen's organizations and publishers....
I'd like to know their methodology and if it was refined over the years. Sometimes they just don't know what to do with all the statistics they collect. What the graph below needs is what effected the scramble for guns. In other words what in the previous 24 months was different than the current 24 months. The graph alone doesn't really serve a purpose, which begs the question, why bother? Market data with this product is more than numbers. "Opening season, declaration endangered species status, Democratic President elected." That would be more helpful to dealers than just this.
The August 2012 NSSF (click here) - adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,042,924 is an increase of27.8 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 815,858 in August 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted August 2012 NICS figure of 1,514,696 reflects a 16.5 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,300,433 in August 2011....
I thought this graph was more interesting:
Criminals see guns when committing other crime and they take them. It is found money.
While stealing all the cash and jewelry, the guns are stolen, too.
In this reality, guns are not a benefit. They are social liability that needs to be recognized for what they are; dangerous. Gun owners cannot guarantee they treat their firearms any differently than any other possessions. One has to ask, is that a healthy way of viewing firearms regardless of their legitimate use. This is how homeowners or apartment dwellers are injured or lose their lives with their own guns when they walk in on a burglary. If the thief was not armed when they went into the house, they sure as heck were armed when they left.
I'd like to know their methodology and if it was refined over the years. Sometimes they just don't know what to do with all the statistics they collect. What the graph below needs is what effected the scramble for guns. In other words what in the previous 24 months was different than the current 24 months. The graph alone doesn't really serve a purpose, which begs the question, why bother? Market data with this product is more than numbers. "Opening season, declaration endangered species status, Democratic President elected." That would be more helpful to dealers than just this.
The August 2012 NSSF (click here) - adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,042,924 is an increase of27.8 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 815,858 in August 2011. For comparison, the unadjusted August 2012 NICS figure of 1,514,696 reflects a 16.5 percent increase from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,300,433 in August 2011....I thought this graph was more interesting:
Criminals see guns when committing other crime and they take them. It is found money.While stealing all the cash and jewelry, the guns are stolen, too.
In this reality, guns are not a benefit. They are social liability that needs to be recognized for what they are; dangerous. Gun owners cannot guarantee they treat their firearms any differently than any other possessions. One has to ask, is that a healthy way of viewing firearms regardless of their legitimate use. This is how homeowners or apartment dwellers are injured or lose their lives with their own guns when they walk in on a burglary. If the thief was not armed when they went into the house, they sure as heck were armed when they left.
