I predicted 1/2 million sales

[Great-Kazoo]

In the last 2 weeks of december 2012. Was i wrong!
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...december-2012/


Take notice of those numbers you @#$%^ flag burners.

[rockhound]

By the way those would be legal gun owners, for those liberals who actually give a f...

[GlockDog47]

Wow... that says a lot by its self...

[cofi]

wait till januarys numbers come out

[Troublco]

So while he's trying to take away our rights, Obama's the firearms industry's best salesperson. Such irony!

[Tinelement]

But only criminals have guns!!

Since the NICS system was established in November 1998 a total of 160,474,702 background checks were made. Of these, around .006 percent of those attempted purchases were denied and .00008% (fewer than a hundred people a year) were prosecuted for lying on the form.

[Dave]

Few of the comments were a little disturbing.

Dalmation: "Scaring gullible dumb people for years is finally paying off big time for the gun industry ( and their flunky Congressional supporters ) . Oh well , so be it . We’re ( the sane adults ) going to tax high powered ammunition ( and reloading supplies as well ) so highly and punitively that within a decade or so all an AK 47 will be good for is a door stop . Enjoy your ( expensive , but well built ) door stops ."

So they want to price home defense out of the budget of most people? Not to mention, what's considered high powered? I would think the 180gr rounds fired from my .300 Win short mag have a lot more power than a 7.62x39 or 5.56 NATO round.

[DHC]

In the last 2 weeks of december 2012. Was i wrong!
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...december-2012/


Take notice of those numbers you @#$%^ flag burners.

If I understand the cited numbers correctly, it seems as if the 'normal' number of NCIS checks are expected to be approximately 1M per month. In this past November, that number doubled and in December it nearly tripled. Obama's Folly (I hope it becomes known as such) would then be directly responsible for adding at least 3 million firearms (possibly more since more than 1 gun can be purchased on a single background check) in the hands of the citizens in just a two-month period.

Obama and his crew are not dumb. Would this reaction NOT have been foreseeable, at least to some degree? If so, and I suspect it was predicted, then I keep wondering how this 'plays' in the grand scheme. Is it that they intend (or intendED) on confiscation, hence, it would not then matter to them if a bunch of guns were sold, as they plan to get them back anyway. Is it as simple as 'the law of unintended consequences' and they failed to consider the full weight of reaction to their announced intentions? I don't know (obviously) but tend to suspect the worst from this Administration on gun issues.

In any case, that is one hell of a lot of guns sold. I hope a large proportion of them are to new gun owners. While that scares the bejeezuz out of me next time I head to South Site - we *need* more citizens, many more, who have a vested interest in keeping their guns.

FWIW

[TAR31]

At a an estimate of $500 per check I come up with over 1.3 BILLION spent on guns in December. Am I high or low in my estimate?

[TS12000]

At a an estimate of $500 per check I come up with over 1.3 BILLION spent on guns in December. Am I high or low in my estimate?

Probably low, I'm sure there were more than enough purchases in the 2k and up range with multiple guns on the same form that the avg is higher than 500 per. Shit that one shop in NC did a million in sales, in a single day.