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For the last two months Americans have been lining up in unprecedented numbers at gun shops and gun shows across the country. In fact, demand has been so massive that the FBI’s background check system in a number of states crashed as a result of being overwhelmed.
In January, some 2.4 million requests were sent
to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which ranks
last month as the second busiest in U.S. history.
It was second only to the 2.7 million people who
purchased guns in December 2012.
Even before the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut last
year, which prompted government officials on all levels to introduce legislation that would restrict
access to
semi-automatic personal defense rifles and other firearms deemed too dangerous
for America’s
streets, demand had been rising at a rapid pace.
In the last twelve months, over 20 million
background checks have been performed by the FBI.
That amounts to a gun
being purchased in America
about every 1.5 seconds.
Considering that many states allow face-to-face
sales and transfers of firearms without requiring a background check, we could
easily be looking at 25 million or more guns having exchanged hands since this
time last year.
This is what happens when government attempts to
inject itself into the private lives of law abiding Americans.
Richard Feldman, president of the Independent Firearm Owners
Association, said the explanation for the dramatic spike in moves to buy guns
was self-evident. “This one’s easy. If the American population thinks that a
product that they want – whether firearms or DVDs – may not be available in the
near future, they will go for it.”
In this case, what appears to be sparking a degree of panic buying
are the proposals emanating from the White House and a bi-partisan group of US
senators to ban a range of military-style assault weapons including the kind of
AR-15 used by the Newtown shooter to wreak
carnage at Sandy Hook elementary
school. senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat from California, has proposed reinstating
the 1994 assault weapons ban that lapsed in 2004 with stronger wording that
would take 158 specific models of semi-automatic assault rifles, shotguns and
pistols off the market.
…
Of the top 10 entries, all but two have been recorded on or since
the day of the Newtown
shooting.
The President and Vice President have made it a
point to pursue a policy of disarmament, even though Joe Biden was recently
caught without his teleprompter suggesting that legislation to restrict access
to semi-automatic rifles and other guns would essentially do nothing to curb
gun violence:
Nothing we’re going to do is going to fundamentally alter or
eliminate the possibility of another mass shooting or guarantee that we will
bring gun deaths down to a thousand a year from what it is now.
Americans have sent
a clear message to Washington
D.C. and legislators in their
state Capitols.
We
are not sheep that will follow your commands blindly.
We
will not allow you to disarm us,
to restrict our access, or to make us criminals.
Our
right to bear arms is unalienable.
It’s
as simple as that.
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