Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Here is the problem [View all]Squinch
(50,955 posts)(We both know your 50 years figure was just pulled out of your hat.) There are more things than the durability of the gun that go into the equation.
For example, the owner dies and the widow sticks it in the attic, essentially pulling it out of circulation.
Or, as happened with my own father, as people become older - and I would say wiser - they simply stop seeing the glamor they once saw in a gun. It becomes something that no longer appeals to them, they see their earlier enthusiasm as silly, and they store the gun away, also taking it out of circulation.
So actually it makes perfect sense that a recession, which makes people prioritize other things above their gun hobby, and the aging of the cohort of the gun buyers who could purchase without the 1994 restrictions, would combine to explain the reduction in the gun deaths that have been seen in New York.