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mr1337 wrote:

dale blanker wrote:

mr1337 wrote:...even if I had a landline and someone called and asked if I had guns, I would lie and say no. Why? Because my address is tied to that number. I don't want to tell a stranger what I have in my home.

Hmm, saying "no" for gun ownership might actually encourage a visit to a soft target.

I guess they would just have to find out the hard way how soft the target is. I'd rather they come under prepared than over.

If someone was actually being nefarious in a phone poll to case potential houses, not answering the question would be almost as good as confirming that you do have firearms.

mr1337 wrote:Well for one, I don't have a landline, which I believe is how phone surveys are still conducted. Landlines are decreasing due to the popularity of cell phones.

For two, isn't your landline tied to your home address via the phone book and/or 411/information?

For three, even if I had a landline and someone called and asked if I had guns, I would lie and say no. Why? Because my address is tied to that number. I don't want to tell a stranger what I have in my home.

Skiprr wrote:

bblhd672 wrote:The fact that American citizens' gun ownership continues to rise doesn't fit the MSM and Democrat's narratives. They keep telling the lies, but as others have noted, firearms and ammo manufacturers are turning out record numbers of products which has to alarm the gun grabbers.

To paraphrase Al Gore: An inconvenient truth, though an indisputable one, is the record of NICS firearm purchase background checks run. It's probably the best indicator of U.S. firearms sales, though the FBI, and quite rightly, cautions that, "Based on varying state laws and purchase scenarios, a one-to-one correlation cannot be made between a firearm background check and a firearm sale." Here and in other states, people with a license to carry do not have to run through the NICS system in order to purchase a firearm, so I have to believe that the total numbers of NICS checks are, if anything, on the conservative side when it comes to actual firearms sales to the public.



In 2015, we saw 23,141,970 NICS background checks performed. That's over twice the number performed in 2007. For 2016, we're at 17,880.475 and counting.

So let's see... During Barack Obama's term in office, through this past August 31, NICS has processed exactly 146,361,074 firearm purchase background checks. The U.S. Census Bureau estimates that, in 2015, about 23% of the total U.S. population of 321 million were under 18 years of age. We should be looking at 21 or over, but don't have those numbers. Even at 18-and-over only, that puts the adult population at about 247 million.

That means, during the current POTUS administration, there was at least one NICS firearm purchase background check processed for a number representing 59.3% of the entire adult population in the U.S. And millions who are licensed are not counted among those numbers.

In comparison, during the last Republican president's administration, the two terms of George W. Bush--during which occurred the most devastating terror attack on U.S. soil in history--a total of 56,439,694 NICS firearm purchase background checks were processed. Obama has Bush beat by about 90 million, and he still has five months to go for the final tally. By the end of next January, we'll be very close to three times the number of NICS checks under the Obama administration compared to the Bush presidency.


The meme that there has been no better gun salesman than Barack Obama is absolutely true. And I hope it keeps him, Hillary, Chuck Schumer, Bloomberg, Soros, and all the other politico gun grabbers up at night knowing that a liberal administration equates to ever-greater gun sales.

You win, you'll still lose.