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Gun Control & RKBA

Puha Ekapi

(594 posts)

3. 45 percent...

Reply to DonP (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 21, 2016, 07:13 PM

Jan 2016

...of your new students are first time gun owners, and if the 3,000,000 sales since October are around the same percentage of first time owners, that's like 1,300,000 new gun owners. Even if the percentage is half that, that's a shitload of people in 3 months. That people are voting with their wallets speaks louder than damn near anything.

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