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Jeff In Milwaukee

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65. Here's the problem

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 11:03 AM

Jun 2014

First of all, snark is supposed to be amusing. So there's that.

The second is the fact that gun deaths aren't declining. Since the late 1990's (after the spike in homicides earlier in the decade) the rate of gun deaths in the U.S. settled back into a persistent rate of about 10.3 per 100,000 in population. The raw number of gun deaths has actually increased -- which is why even with a growing population, the rate has remained around 10.3.

http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/united-states (note that the figures come from the CDC).

So actually, the math works pretty well.

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Smith & Wesson: Americans are buying fewer guns [View all] OneCrazyDiamond Jun 2014 OP

Possibly because their key market keeps killing itself... Jeff In Milwaukee Jun 2014 #1

If only their key market didn't take so many innocents along with them. nt valerief Jun 2014 #4

Would that be too much to ask? Jeff In Milwaukee Jun 2014 #6

No kidding. Arugula Latte Jun 2014 #59

Math not your strong suit? nt hack89 Jun 2014 #47

Let's go with that... Jeff In Milwaukee Jun 2014 #62

You seem to think their key market is diminishing hack89 Jun 2014 #63

Here's the problem Jeff In Milwaukee Jun 2014 #65

Lets look at the individual rates. hack89 Jun 2014 #66

I'm sure that a parent.... Jeff In Milwaukee Jun 2014 #67

Which has has nothing to do with your original point. hack89 Jun 2014 #68

"Think of it as evolution in action." truebluegreen Jun 2014 #52

+1 Pakhet Jun 2014 #57

I wonder if this means the gun manufacturers will, paradoxically, tell the NRA to dial Aristus Jun 2014 #2

S&W reports a significant increase in handgun sales hack89 Jun 2014 #18

Uh-oh. Another national disaster is looming. That'll pick up gun sales. nt valerief Jun 2014 #3

As long as Diane Feinstein keeps quiet hack89 Jun 2014 #16

Or another shooting spree sakabatou Jun 2014 #46

Unlike most products guns pretty much last forever. former9thward Jun 2014 #5

My cousin hunts with a 100-year-old rifle Jeff In Milwaukee Jun 2014 #7

I have a 1889 Savage .303 that works great. AtheistCrusader Jun 2014 #21

Let's see...Cost per pound on that venison would be.... Jeff In Milwaukee Jun 2014 #29

Plus 130 bucks for the tag... AtheistCrusader Jun 2014 #30

Don't forget the beer (nt) Jeff In Milwaukee Jun 2014 #31

0$ for me. AtheistCrusader Jun 2014 #37

Our camp is reasonably dry... Jeff In Milwaukee Jun 2014 #39

Not sure I buy the saturation argument. Wasn't the market pretty saturated 20 years ago too? MillennialDem Jun 2014 #53

Well, yes there are always new generations coming up. former9thward Jun 2014 #54

There are more millennials than baby boomers. In fact we will make up a MillennialDem Jun 2014 #56

It wasn't "saturation" so much as it just is a wave losing its steam Cosmocat Jun 2014 #55

Not if the old guns are no longer "fashionable" NickB79 Jun 2014 #64

careful laundry_queen Jun 2014 #69

They can now release the new models so the gun hoarders have to upgrade. Sunlei Jun 2014 #8

You can't buy a gun online, never could. former9thward Jun 2014 #10

walmart does everything these days! Sunlei Jun 2014 #17

Except for Curio & Relic license holders who can indeed get older guns thru the mail/online...n/t EX500rider Jun 2014 #38

which is a type of FFL Duckhunter935 Jun 2014 #51

I thought a lot of these gun companies NewJeffCT Jun 2014 #9

Besides saturation. ChazInAz Jun 2014 #11

NRA! Time to get busy ginning up more fear! Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jun 2014 #12

Wayne will give DiFi a call and all will be good. nt hack89 Jun 2014 #14

so you're using DU to bash Dianne Feinstein from the right? CreekDog Jun 2014 #32

No - just pointing out what drives gun sales hack89 Jun 2014 #33

Dianne Feinstein is nowhere in that article CreekDog Jun 2014 #34

"But Obama failed to get a bill through Congress that would have placed restrictions on these guns" hack89 Jun 2014 #36

There are only so many TeaBags with only so much money n/t broadcaster75201 Jun 2014 #13

"S&W reported a hefty increase in handgun sales" hack89 Jun 2014 #15

That may be due to the fact that everybody who ever considered that he might want ... spin Jun 2014 #19

It was a great marketing strategy by the gun manufacturers, via the NRA PeoViejo Jun 2014 #40

Yup. It worked so well the market dried up. (n/t) spin Jun 2014 #43

yea warrior1 Jun 2014 #20

That's because S&W is garbage. AtheistCrusader Jun 2014 #22

Sig Saur opinion? PatrynXX Jun 2014 #24

No experience with them, so I can't say. AtheistCrusader Jun 2014 #25

My model 629 would beg to differ. nt Llewlladdwr Jun 2014 #60

also could be that all the slowly disappating gun owners PatrynXX Jun 2014 #23

this right here frylock Jun 2014 #27

Did you actually read the OP? The part that talked about 30% jump in handgun sales? hack89 Jun 2014 #35

Proof of evolution. Intelligence comes with progress. onehandle Jun 2014 #26

Considering you didn't fully read the OP's links hack89 Jun 2014 #41

He'll come around if Apple produces a gun. nt Union Scribe Jun 2014 #44

Need another "gun ban" media push to drive sales back up pediatricmedic Jun 2014 #28

Gun sales may have hit saturation, but do not overlook ammunition sales SkatmanRoth Jun 2014 #42

Stop. Stop. Your plight will make us all cry. (nt) Paladin Jun 2014 #45

I hear sweetapogee Jun 2014 #48

I Have a 1950s S&W Snubnose Wolf Frankula Jun 2014 #49

Maybe the price on the C.O.R.E. will come down ileus Jun 2014 #50

They've squeezed all the mileage they could out of their Blue_Tires Jun 2014 #58

At work I saw a new 25 shot semi-auto shot gun Omaha Steve Jun 2014 #61