The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) released a startling statistic last week: Americans have bought more than 1 million guns every month for the past five years. The organization estimates that 86 million guns were purchased in the period through July, with 22 million of those purchases being by new gun owners.
This brings the total number of firearms owned by more than 82 million Americans to approximately 510 million.
And there's more good news: Gun owners outvote non-gun owners in double-digit numbers. Four in five of them say they voted in the last presidential election. If that trend holds in 2024, more than 65 million people will vote in November. And, as scholars on both sides of the issue say, the vast majority of them will vote Republican.
The news is even better: Vote4America is working diligently to register gun owners who aren't registered to vote. There are currently more than 800,000 unregistered gun owners in the battleground states of Georgia, Wisconsin and Arizona, three states that Trump supposedly lost by just 44,000 votes in the questionable 2020 election.
NSSF President and CEO Joe Bartozzi celebrated the milestone.
The more than 1 million background checks conducted each month for the past five years represent the free expression of Second Amendment rights during difficult and challenging times, including the COVID-19 pandemic that has led some state governors to close gun stores and the Biden-Harris Administration's “zero tolerance” policy that has revoked firearms sales licenses.
During this time, Americans who never before considered legally owning a firearm have decided to become gun owners, and we are proud of our industry's commitment to providing law-abiding citizens across the country the tools to exercise those rights.
The number of gun purchases is probably an understatement: Background checks are performed on people considering buying a gun, not on the number of guns purchased in a single transaction, so the NSSF estimate, by its own admission, grossly underestimates the number of guns that anxious citizens and voters will buy.
Additionally, the NSSF figures do not include “ghost guns,” which are loathed by gun control advocates.
And these record numbers come despite gun-control states like New Jersey illegally and unconstitutionally limiting gun purchases to one gun per month.
Gun buyers are nervous, and for good reason. Currently, the anti-gun, anti-Second Amendment agenda of the Democratic Party, led by self-described Marxists, is aligned with the mainstream media in blatantly and aggressively pushing for further restrictions on the God-given right to keep and bear arms guaranteed by the Second Amendment. This includes the Biden Administration, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her fiercely anti-gun buddy Tim Walz. It also includes the ATF and its overseer, Attorney General Merrick Garland at the Department of Justice.
They have another reason to be worried. Rumors are circulating that if Donald Trump is re-elected to a second term in November, there will be so much rioting and arson that the George Floyd-inspired riots will look innocent. This is how the Marxists operate: play the game our way or we'll burn your city down.
Dean Weingarten, a retired police officer who served in the Pentagon for 30 years, has an insider's view of the potential for such violence.
If presidential candidate Donald Trump wins in 2024, it will take some time for stability to be restored. The current ruling class will feel their power is threatened. Far-left/woke forces will see their chance to completely destroy Western Civilization as in danger of failing.
If Donald Trump becomes president for a second time, it is reasonable to expect riots in the heartland of Democratic power, potentially on a much larger scale than the riots we saw in 2020, when the left did its best to justify the anti-white, anti-police violence of Black Lives Matter.
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