Gun Background Checks Drop By 10 Percent In Jan. (as retailers continue to run out of guns to sell )

[Purveyor]

WASHINGTON — The number of federal background checks for firearms sales declined in the U.S. last month, as retailers continue to run out of guns to sell during a buying spree driven by Washington's new focus on gun control.

Background checks decreased 10 percent nationally between December and January, with large declines in the Southern states of Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee and Virginia as well as Texas, according to an Associated Press analysis of new FBI data published Tuesday.

Firearms sales surged around the country after the December shooting spree in Newtown, Conn. A gunman killed 20 children and six adults at the school.

There were more than 2.78 million checks in December. That was a 12-month peak following an upward trend through last fall. The number fell to 2.48 million in January, still a higher figure than any other month than December last year.

Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2013/02/05/4602134/gun-background-checks-drop-by.html#storylink=cpy

[Loudly]

1. Need to keep those store shelves from being restocked.

[discntnt_irny_srcsm]

3. I hear there's...

...a lot of folks working on that.

[X_Digger]

2. This is pretty typical of January

Dec 2008- 1,523,426 - Jan 2009- 1,213,885 - 20% decrease
Dec 2010- 1,521,192 - Jan 2011- 1,323,336 - 13% " "
Dec 2012- 2,783,765 - Jan 2013- 2,495,440 - 10% " "

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/20130205_1998_2013_monthly_yearly_totals.pdf

[farminator3000]

4. that'd be great if sales went down 10% every month. eventually they'd be at zero...

Bernstein said sales in his store went down 23 percent between December and January.

oh boo hoo.

i'd like to know how many of these people already have guns? 90-95% sounds about right.

[amos-moses]

5. Plenty Of Guns

There's plenty of guns to buy. They're running low on first time buyers with enough money to buy guns. All the old timers have plenty of guns. It's the new people obama has scared into buying guns because their afraid he will take that right away from them.
My gun dealer told me his gun sales went from 4000 a year to 10,000 a year when obama took office in 08. He calls him "The Greatest Gun Salesman In History".

[hrmjustin]

6. What do you think of our president?