Best summer ever for gun sales [View all]

June, July, and August were all records for background checks by the ATF for gun sales.
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/09/its-best-summer-ever-gun-sales

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The summer has seen a renewed push by many Democrats, including presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, for new gun control measures in the wake of several shootings. Some experts have said they believe the advocacy for new gun control is driving the record sales.

"Whenever there is a call for gun control, sales increase," Larry Keane, general counsel for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, told the New York Daily News. "Unfortunately, this is a pattern that repeats itself."
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Regardless of whether or not the new gun control advocacy is causing the record numbers, my question is why is the Democratic party still pushing the same failed measures? They've had no problem in turning their backs on the working poor and unions and the middle class when it got them big corporate donations. Why not scale back the gun rhetoric and work with the large number of Democratic gun owners on advancing gun criminal control measures and probably bring in or at least stabilize several hundred thousand, if not millions given the surge in gun ownership, gun owners voters who might be one issue voters. Gun ownership rights voters? If for no other reason than to prevent adding millions of more gun owners to the pro gun owner side of the equation which will make any future gun confiscation measures much more difficult.

The cynic in me thinks that perhaps they are intentionally boosting gun sales as payback for campaign donations, but I think it's more a case of pandering to gun confiscation voters the same way that repubs pander to Christian fundamentalists. It's pure voter math to me. They will win more pro gun votes than they will lose anti gun votes by working with gun rights people to work on gun criminals control and not gun confiscation pandering.

Many of us here are the rights worst nightmare. Liberals with a gun. Well, maybe second worst. Worst would be a black liberal with a gun.