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Originally Posted by acousticrock87
The part that's wishful thinking is that you would need every single person in America to agree to it. Everyone. If they didn't agree, you would need guns to take guns. Then other countries would interfere, and the people who took the guns would still need guns. So, in effect, everyone in the world would need to agree.
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its not wishful thinking to stop selling guns to people, it is the reality of many places in america, and if it is the reality in one place, it proves it can be the reality of another. if cali can stop selling guns and the streets not just take over, then so can michigan.
California Handgun Sales:
Year Handgun Sales
2001 155,203
2000 201,865
1999 244,569
1998 189,481
1997 204,409
1996 215,804
1995 254,626
1994 382,085
1993 433,822
1992 382,122
1991 329,133
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1990 330,295*
1989 333,069
1988 291,171
1987 273,628
1986 266,480
1985 293,624
1984 275,882
1983 268,462
1982 311,870
1981 371,160
1980 325,041
1979 268,447
1978 258,485
1977 225,412
1976 204,658
1975 231,916
1974 234,691
1973 192,108
1972 190,335
More Than 30,000 Firearms Last Year
For Immediate Release:
06-17-2008
Washington, D.C. - Gun dealers “lost” an average of at least 82 firearms every day last year, totaling more than 30,000 firearms unaccounted for in gun dealers’ inventory in fiscal year 2007, according to a Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence analysis of new data from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) released this month.
Firearms that “disappear” from gun shops with no record of sale are frequently trafficked by gun traffickers and prized by criminals because the guns are virtually untraceable. Corrupt gun dealers also attempt to disguise illegal off-the-book sales by claiming that the firearms were lost or stolen.
“Communities across our nation can’t afford to have corrupt gun dealers failing to account for more than 30,000 firearms - that is a deadly recipe for more gun deaths and injuries,” said Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence President Paul Helmke. “Gun dealers are licensed by the Federal government. With that license comes the responsibility to follow sound business practices to help ensure that dangerous weapons don’t get into the hands of dangerous criminals.”
The 30,000 missing guns are likely an undercount of the total number of guns that disappeared from gun shops last year. ATF conducted compliance inspections at approximately 10,000 of the nation’s 60,000 gun dealers in fiscal year 2007, finding over 30,000 firearms missing from the dealers’ inventory with no record of sale. The other 50,000 dealers were not inspected last year due to limited ATF resources. In fiscal year 2005, ATF examined 3,083 gun dealers and found 12,274 missing firearms.
Weak federal gun laws allow gun dealers to operate without any security or inventory controls. In 2001, ATF proposed that gun dealers be required to take one physical inventory of their firearms each year to ensure that all firearms were accounted for in their shops. At the behest of the gun lobby, Congress approved an appropriations provision in 2004 put forward by Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-KS), blocking ATF from implementing that ATF proposal - and that prohibition remains the law.