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How many gun are sold in the US each year? Completed 9mm caliber cartridges are seen at Stone Hart Manufacturing, Miami, Florida. Photograph: Joe Raedle/Getty Images

If you want to find out exactly how many guns are sold in the US each year, then the figures are not recorded.
However, if you want to know how many applications there are to buy guns each year, then the latest data from the FBI shows that 2012 looks like a bumper year for gun sales in America.
In the wake of the Newtown shooting in Connecticut, there is a renewed focus on gun control in the US. And, under US law, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System is used to check if someone can buy a gun from a federal registered dealer before they can walk out of the shop with it.

Before ringing up the sale, cashiers call in a check to the FBI or to other designated agencies to ensure that each customer does not have a criminal record or isn't otherwise ineligible to make a purchase.

The figures show that there have been 16,808,538 applications in 2012 so far to the end of November. If they were approved, that would be enough weapons to stock every member of Nato's armed forces nearly five times over. The system has received 156,577,260 applications since 1998 and the US has the highest gun ownership

My Review of Review of the Tapco Intrafuse T6 Stock & Pistol Grip Set
Well, I finally got around to purchasing a new stock and pistol grip for my Saiga .223 rifle so I thought I’d go ahead and post a short review. First off, this stock fit perfectly on my Saiga .223 rifle. I had absolutely no issues with fit.
I was a bit concerned about how sturdy this stock would be because of how light it was, but after installing it and putting it through some of my own personal “tests”, it appears to be pretty darn solid. I’m very happy with it in that regard.
Installation is a snap, and it took me about 10 minutes to do. You simply fit the stock into the receiver, drill three little pilot holes with the supplied drill bit, and then install the retainer screws. Don’t worry, you are drilling into the new stock, not the gun’s receiver. If you ever decide to put the original stock back on, it will be exactly as it was when it came out of the factory. The pistol grip is even easier to install, requiring the insertion of just 1 heavy screw inserted through the bottom of the grip.
The bottom of the pistol grip has a little spring loaded trap door, and with the space inside being hollow is it feasible that you could use that little space for storage if you wanted to. While the grip does have ridges milled into it to help make it “grippy”, it is still made of hard polymer, which is not really very “grippy” to hold on to. I put on a cheap Hogue Handall slip on rubber grip that I had layHogue Handall rubber grip on Amazon for under $10.
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Overall, this is a great addition to an already great rifle and I’m very happy with it. I shopped around quite a bit, and the best price I found was on Amazon for about $62.



Crimson Trace shoot

In this final post on the 3-gun shoot, I’d like to chat with you about my pistol, a Glock 34 in 9mm. I shoot production in USPSA, IPSC and IDPA, so here I am again at a disadvantage going against all the Open class gear. Thankfully I’m just here to shoot for fun! I have Sevigny Tactical rear and optical front sights(MSRP $86.95), as well as a Fulcrum trigger (MSRP $179.95), a 13lb Wolff recoil spring (MSRP $7.89) and a steel guide rod. I added some medium Falcon grip tape (MSRP $9.99), and I lightly took a file to the mag release since the sharp edges kept stabbing my left hand.

A great addition I have for my magazines are these Dawson Precision grip tape numbers (MSRP $6.95) for the baseplates. A few months ago, I accidentally left six magazines at the range, and while an R.O. had stored them in the office, because they had zero unique markings they ended up walking off within a week. Last time I make that costly mistake!



America has a free-for-all gun culture, which, unsurprisingly, means that America also has a problem with children getting accidentally killed by guns. Specifically, America has a problem with boys in particular getting into accidents with guns, as reported by the New York Times. In its review of the data, the Times found that male shooters fired nearly all guns that were accidentally fired and killed a child. Boys made up 80% of the victims of accidental gun deaths of children. Reporters Michael Luo and Mike McIntire described boys as having a "magnetic attraction of firearms", and added this:

Time and again, boys could not resist handling a gun, disregarding repeated warnings by adults and, sometimes, their own sense that they were doing something wrong.

So, what is it with boys and guns? Presumably, the same thing that defines the relationship of grown men and guns.
Gun-owning is a largely male phenomenon in the US. Forty-five percent of American men own guns while only 15% of women do. Sixty percent of adults with guns in America are white men, even though white men are just one third of the US population. Despite some attempts by gun lobbyists and marketers to try to sell more guns to women, the fact of the matter is that gun-owning isn't really about "safety" and "crime", so much as it's a very costly form of identity politics.
Gun ownership, in America, is a way for white men to assert their power in an era when they're increasingly being forced to share it with women and racial minorities.
The situation is likely only getting more gendered. The total number of gun owners is actually declining, but people who own guns are more likely than ever to be enthusiasts who own four or more guns. The gun enthusiasts contingent is even more likely to see gun ownership as an expression of their identity. While gun marketers periodically try to highlight female gun owners, in an attempt to get away from the identification of gun ownership with aggrieved white men raging against the gradual decline of white male privilege, the fact of the matter is that association is only getting stronger over time.
That's because firearm fanatics themselves can't help but wield the guns like talismans, deadly steel reminders of their resentments of a whole host of 21st-century trends – from increasing cosmopolitanism, to racial diversity, to women's growing power. Angry white dudes wielding guns showed up in droves for "Starbucks Appreciation Day", making a fuss out of how they, with their guns, could dominate the coffee chain that, in reality, represents a turn in American culture towards the urbane.
Just to show how much their display of dominance will not be restrained by the niceties of good taste and basic human decency, the Starbucks in

South Dakota teachers allowed to carry guns in schools:
Today South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard signed a bill that will allow teachers to carry guns in school. This bill was pushed by gun rights supporters, who say that giving teachers the right to arm themselves can help prevent future tragedies like the mass shooting that happened at Sandy Hook Elementary school several months ago.
The South Dakota state senate made an amendment to the bill before it was passed, requiring that individual school districts must decide in a public meeting whether to allow teachers to be armed in that school district. The amendment also allowed the school districts residents to overrule a school board’s decision by putting the issue up to a public vote.
For over 12 years, Utah has allowed teachers with concealed carry permits to carry on school grounds, and now South Dakota is following that same rationale in regard to allowing teachers to defend themselves and their students. It is reported that Georgia, New Hampshire, and Kansas are also working on similar legislation.
Congratulations to the state of South Dakota for putting forth this common sense legislation.