Gun Sales and Mass Shootings


Gun Sales and Mass Shootings graphic discusses the rise in gun sales and the lucrative profits gun manufacturers continue to make.


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300 Days in 2015 = 312 Mass Shootings

2 Largest Gun Manufacturers

  • Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. (NASDAQ: SWHC) — up 90%
  • Sturm, Ruger & Co. (NYSE: RGR) — up 70%
  • Gun stocks almost always soar the week after prominent mass shootings.
  • Stocks plummeted after Sandy Hook, but sales increased dramatically.
  • 12/17/2012 – 12/23/2012, the week following Sandy Hook, 953,613 guns were sold.
  • The highest weekly total ever – 200,000 more than the 2nd highest.

Why?

1) Fear – stricter gun laws
2) Fear – the threat of similar violence
3) Fear – uncertainty

The Supply and Demand of Guns

Guns Processed

  • 1999 – 9,138,123
  • 2014 – 20,968,547

Guns Manufactured

  • 1986 – 3,040,934
  • 2013 – 10,884,792

1998-2015:

  • 202,536,522 – gun transactions
  • 1,238,298 – federal denials which was 0.6% of transactions

Reasons for Federal Denial

  • Convicted of a crime punishable by more than one year or a misdemeanor punishable by more than two years 55%
  • Fugitive 11.4%
  • Domestic Violence Misdemeanor 9.5%
  • Unlawful User/Addicted to a Controlled Substance 8.6%
  • State Prohibition 5%
  • Protection/Restraining Order for Domestic Violence 4%
  • Under Indictment 2.6%
  • Adjudicated Mental Health 1.6%
  • Illegal Alien 1.3%
  • Federally Denied Person .5%
  • Dishonorable Discharge .08%
  • Renounced U.S. Citizenship 0%

Don’t expect the firearms market to curtail.

  • Gun sales are on a record pace.
  • And gun manufacturers continue to make lucrative profits.

Since Columbine:

+ more than 80,000,000 guns produced
+ 200,000,000 guns bought


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