Gun Sales Spike As People Buy Deadlier Weapons to Protect Themselves

newsweek.com ^ | 6/22/2017 | Douglas Main

[Yo-Yo]

Birth is a fatal disease.

[TalonDJ]

“The paper found that since 1994, the manufacture of .38-caliber guns rose 12-fold, with nearly 820,000 of the pistols produced in 2015. The manufacture of 9 mm guns also increased seven-fold in this 15-year stretch, while those larger than 9 mm jumped 150 percent

“Easily explained by two factors:”

You fell for it. They changed the measurement system to make it look like ‘larger than 9mm’ had a HUGE jump....

Translating what they said shows this:
.38 guns went up 12 times
9 mm went up 7 times
bigger than 9mm went up 1.5 times.

So the larger calibers are getting more uncommon (by proportion).

[oldasrocks]

Anything less than a 50 A&E is a peashooter.

[Rebelbase]

This is just media hysteria.

[Yo-Yo]

Yanno, I noticed that after I posted, but you are 100% correct.

[PROCON]

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[old-ager]

Doctor: are you ever depressed?

Never!

Any guns in the house?

I never discuss that.

[rktman]

No silly. You say “No I don’t chew gum.”

[bankwalker]

Any guns in the house?

I never discuss that.

That will probably get you checked-off as a "yes".

A casual "no" would be much more effective.

[NFHale]

“...deadlier weapons...”

Chuckle... drama, drama, drama.

But then again... it IS Newsweak, after all... The Estrogen levels are strong over there.

[Billthedrill]

Well, that may have been the most embarrassing article I've ever read in Newsweak, and that's a pretty tough standard. The numbers quoted in the article show a conclusion completely opposite to the one in the text. If sales of .38 are up, it does not mean that people are going for "deadlier" calibers, whatever that means in the author's vivid imagination. For one thing I don't believe that number unless the author has lumped .38 special in with .380, the latter of which has gone up as a result of the popularity of small-caliber subcompacts. Neither one, however, represents up-gunning from anything, unless it's nothing.

There are ways that caliber might be correlated to deadliness, however. This is my new carry piece:

Mine's a deadly semi-automatic version with a high-capacity ammo clip magazine thingy and a badass bayonet lug. I'm looking for an ankle holster.

[Blood of Tyrants]

They also think that the 5.56 NATO is too powerful for civilians to have.

[GOYAKLA]

I am having a debate with myself as to eliminating some guns of different calibers and going to exclusively one caliber (#1, .357, #2 9mm).
Shotguns a different subject and time.

[Unrepentant VN Vet]

How about a NAVY weapon:

Mark 7 16-inch/50-caliber gun

http://www.military.com/video/forces/navy/uss-wisconsin-fires-16-inch-guns/918274871001

[tet68]

There are more deadly weapons?
Where can we get them?

[SuperLuminal]

Newsweek: Seedy left-wing rag for snowflakes and other communists...

[Grampa Dave]

"Gun Sales Spike As People Buy Deadlier Weapons to Protect Themselves!"

The Brit way to protect your family and you.

You can not coexist with 3rd world savages wanting to cut your head off!

[editor-surveyor]

.
Just bullshit for the bullshit eaters!

People are buying concealable guns.

They are the only thing that can return civility and safety to this once great country.

[wastedyears]

“Deadlier” guns.

Man oh man, I could run circles around these so-called “journalists.”

[mylife]

Deadlier than a clever to the neck?

Yeesh what jackroys