Firearm Sales Up as Murders Drop in USA 2009

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Quelle:GunBroker.com Newsletter 13.01.2010

Firearm Sales Up as Murders Drop

The FBI recently issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the

number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared

to the first half of 2008.

If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will be the single greatest

one-year decrease in the number of murders since at least 1960, the earliest

year for which national data are available through the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Also, the per capita murder rate for 2009 will be 51 percent lower than the

all-time high recorded in 1991, and it will be the lowest rate since 1963—a 46-year low.

Final figures for 2009 will be released by the FBI later this year.

According to gun control supporter dogma—"more guns means more crime"—

the number of privately owned firearms must have decreased 10 percent in

2009. To the contrary, however, the number rose between 1.5 and 2 percent,

to an all-time high.

For the better part of the last 15 months, firearms, ammunition, and "large"

ammunition magazines have been sold in what appear to be record quantities.

And, the firearms that were most commonly purchased in 2009 are those that

gun control supporters most want to be banned—AR-15s, similar semi-automatic rifles,

and handguns designed for defense.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation already estimates record ammunition

sales in 2009, dominated by .223 Remington, 7.62x39mm, 9mm and other

calibers widely favored for defensive purposes.