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In reply to the discussion: Guns in America: A Statistical Look [View all]SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)15. Wrong - not all background checks are sales
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"Only a small number of these purchases (78,211 or 0.48 percent) were denied."
trouble.smith
Dec 2012
#3
I'm not sure how sincere the anti-gunners are. I suspect that one or more of them are stockholders
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#5
the price of ammo is up because the price of all commodities is up, copper and lead for example.
trouble.smith
Dec 2012
#9
The price of ammo was going up long before the price of commodities began going up.
AnotherMcIntosh
Dec 2012
#12
divide 129,817 (the number of FFLs in America) by 16,454,951 (number of NICS checks) in 2011
trouble.smith
Dec 2012
#19
And yet still very good data indicating a massive increase in sales revenue.
Atypical Liberal
Dec 2012
#38
We get it, it isn't a one to one correlation but it's still a fuckton of new gun sales.
trouble.smith
Dec 2012
#26