President Obama: AR-15 Salesman of the Decade!

• President Obama: AR-15 Salesman of the Decade! 
  by http://www.ammoland.com/ 
  San Diego, CA –-(Ammoland.com)- In the wake of recent tragedies, the Obama  administration took gun control as its new mission, advocating everything from  useless  “universal” background checks to once again banning so-called “assault  weapons.”
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  The unintended but completely predictable side effect of Obama’s posturing  has been to cause your mothers, uncles and neighbors to run to the local gun  store and buy anything they thought might become unavailable. This includes a whole lot of AR-15s, the administration’s Sandy Hook straw  man.
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  People buy guns due to the perception of threat. Numerous  studies have shown that gun sales go up when there is a perception of increased  violent crime. Likewise, more guns get sold when there is a perceived danger of losing  the ability to acquire firearms in the future. So when politicians start calling  for more gun control, more guns enter circulation.
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  The last great push for gun control started in 1999, after the massacre at  Columbine High School. Then President Bill Clinton unashamedly backed various  proposals and publicly associated himself with people calling for licensing and  registration of handguns (registration, having been the requisite tool for gun  confiscation in New York, California, Chicago and Washington D.C., creates the  perception of losing guns and thereby increases the perception of being easily  victimized). In 1999, which was also the first year for instant retail  background checks (NICS), the rate of background checks was higher than  subsequent years. Though there are many possible variables involved, one  explanation is that the threat of gun control in 1999 increased demand for  guns.
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  Fast forward to 2013, when calls for more gun control rose in the wake of the  Sandy Hook tragedy. Annualizing the number of NICS background checks for the  entire year, there has been a 34% increase in the demand for firearms. The  ramp-up actually began late in 2012, which explains in part the 10% increase the  year before.
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  It has been frequently disproven that the availability or quantity of  firearms in a society affects the number or homicides or the overall violent  crime rate. Indeed, the federal Bureau of Justice Statistics recently reported that despite  gun sales growing (as charted above) and the number of states allowing  concealed carry rising from 10 to 42, the  firearm crime rate has plummeted, falling on average 66% depending on the type  of crime (74% dip for all firearm violence, 50% for firearm homicides and  75% for non-fatal firearm victimizations). Contrary to the claim of gun  control groups, on the surface it appears that firearm availability may have  suppressed firearm violence over the last 20 years.
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  At least here in the United States. With the current administration shipping guns uncontrolled to drug cartels over the southern  border, yet with the Mexican government effectively banning private gun  ownership, Mexico has encountered a different outcome.

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