FBI Reports Huge Decrease In Murders, as Firearm, Ammunition And...

FBI Reports Huge Decrease In Murders, as Firearm, Ammunition And "Large"
Magazine Sales Soar.

Posted by Gordon on December 31, 2009 at 10:02am
http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/2009prelimsem/index.html

Last week, the FBI issued its preliminary 2009 crime report, showing that the
number of murders in the first half of 2009 decreased 10 percent compared to
the first half of 2008. If the trend holds for the remainder of 2009, it will
be the single greatest one-year decrease in the number of murders since at
least 1960, the earliest year for which national data are available through
the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Also, the per capita murder rate for 2009
will be 51 percent lower than the all-time high recorded in 1991, and it will
be the lowest rate since 1963 - a 46-year low. Final figures for 2009 will be
released by the FBI next year.

According to gun control supporter dogma - "more guns means more crime" - the
number of privately owned firearms must have decreased 10 percent in 2009. To
the contrary, however, the number rose between 1.5 and 2 percent, to an
all-time high. For the better part of the last 15 months, firearms,
ammunition, and "large" ammunition magazines have been sold in what appear to
be record quantities. And, the firearms that were most commonly purchased in
2009 are those that gun control supporters most want to be banned - AR-15s,
similar semi-automatic rifles, and handguns designed for defense. The
National Shooting Sports Foundation already estimates record ammunition sales
in 2009, dominated by .223 Remington, 7.62x39mm, 9mm and other calibers
widely favored for defensive purposes.

Also indicative of the upward trend in firearm sales, the number of national
instant check transactions rose 24.5 percent in the first six months of 2009
compared to the first six months in 2008, the greatest increase since NICS'
inception in 1998. Through the end of October, NICS transactions rose18
percent, compared to the same period in 2008.

More Guns Means More Crime? Hardly. In 2009, more guns meant less crime, in a
very, very big way.