The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reported last week an astounding milestone: Every month of every year for the last five years Americans have purchased more than one million firearms. The group estimates that 86 million firearms were purchased during that period ending in July, and that 22 million of them were purchased by new owners.
That brings the total to approximately 510 million firearms owned by more than 82 million American citizens.
The news gets even better: Gun owners outvote non-gun owners by double digits. Four out of five of them said they voted in the last presidential election. If that holds for 2024, more than 65 million of them will vote in November. And most of them, according to scholars on both sides of the issue, will vote Republican.
The news gets still better. Vote4America is working feverishly to register gun owners who haven’t registered to vote. In battleground states of Georgia, Wisconsin, and Arizona, there are presently more than 800,000 gun owners who aren’t registered. In the highly suspect 2020 election, Trump allegedly lost those three states by just 44,000 votes.
Joe Bartozzi, NSSF’s president and CEO, celebrated the milestone:
These million-plus monthly background checks over the past five years represent the free expression of Second Amendment rights during tough and troubling times, including the COVID-19 pandemic when certain governors were shuttering gun stores and the Biden-Harris administration’s “zero-tolerance” policy to revoke licenses to sell firearms.
During this time, Americans who never previously considered lawful firearm ownership decided to become gun owners. We’re proud of our industry’s work to provide the means to exercise those rights to law-abiding citizens across the country.
Those gun-purchase numbers are likely far too conservative. Background checks are run on potential gun buyers and not on the number of firearms purchased in a single transaction. So the estimates by NSSF, by the group’s own admission, underestimate substantially the number of firearms being bought by nervous citizens and voters.
In addition, those “ghost guns” that gun-grabbers so detest aren’t included in the NSSF numbers.
And these record numbers are coming even while viciously anti-gun states such as New Jersey are illegally and unconstitutionally limiting the purchase of firearms to one per month.
Gun buyers are nervous, and for good reason. The anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment agenda of the Democrat Party, now controlled by self-admitted Marxists, in lockstep with the mainstream media, is now blatantly and aggressively pushing for more restrictions on the God-given right to keep and bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment. That includes the Biden administration, the Democrat Party’s presidential nominee Kamala Harris, and her virulent anti-gun sidekick, Tim Walz. It also includes the ATF and its overseer, Attorney General Merrick Garland of the Department of Justice.
They’re nervous for another reason. Word is spreading that if Donald Trump is reelected for a second term in November there will be riots and burnings that make the George Floyd-inspired riots look innocent. That’s how Marxists work: Play our game our way, or we’ll burn your cities to the ground.
Dean Weingarten, a former peace officer who retired from the Department of Defense after a 30-year career there, has an insider’s view of the potential for those riots:
If presidential candidate Donald Trump is elected in 2024, it will take some time for stability to be re-established. The current ruling class sees their power as threatened. The far-Left/Woke forces will see their chance at a complete destruction of Western civilization at risk of failure.
In the event of a second Donald Trump presidency, it’s reasonable to expect riots in major centers of Democratic party power. Those riots may be far greater than were observed in 2020 when the left went all out with BLM legitimization of anti-white and anti-police rioting.
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