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Data Point – the American people are Michael Bloomberg’s worst enemies

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Former NYC Mayor and now Democrat Prez Wannabee Michael Bloomberg hates guns.  Well, maybe that’s not quite true – he loves them in the hands of his bodyguards.  He does hate them in YOUR hands – else why would he be spending hundreds of millions of dollars in a vainglorious attempt to infringe upon our Second Amendment Rights by funding Moms Demand Action and Everytown et al in seeking civilian disarmament by any means possible.  And these stats from the National Shooting Sports Foundation show that he’s in for a slog:

  • The estimated total number of firearms in civilian possession from 1986-2018 is 422.9 million, according to data reported in the ATF’s Firearms Commerce Report in the United States 2019 report and including the preliminary 2018 Annual Firearms Manufacturing and Exportation Report (AFMER) figures.
  • 17,740,000 Modern Sporting Rifles are in private ownership today [ MSRs are AR-15 platform rifles – those “hated black guns”.  -Skip]
  • More than half (54%) of all rifles produced in 2017 were modern sporting rifles.
  • In 2017, 7,901,218 total firearms were produced and imported. Of those, 4,411,923 were pistols and revolvers, 2,821,945 were rifles and 667,350 were shotguns.
  • An interim 2018 estimate showed a total 7,660,772 total firearms were produced and imported. Of those 4,277,971 were pistols and revolvers, 2,846,757 were rifles and 535,994 were shotguns. Those are interim reports and will be updated as complete information becomes available.
  • Firearms-ammunition manufacturing accounted for nearly 12,000 employees producing over $4.1 billion in goods shipped in 2017. An estimated 8.1 billion rounds, of all calibers and gauges, were produced in 2018 for the U.S. market.

And as I have put up a whole number of times, violent crime overall has decreased but here it is again:

During the 25-year period covered in this report (1993–2017) the violent crime rate has decreased by 48.6 percent and unintentional firearm-related fatalities have declined by 68 percent.

(H/T: The Truth About Guns)

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