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Originally Posted by Wormius
I don't really get how the current manufacture and circulation of guns is now in the states. Is there still active production? How can there not be enough guns in the world right now? It's not like all of these guns are some home brew thing. Isn't the government allowed to restrict the manufacture of guns and ammunition and limit them for military or law enforcement use only?
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From Business Insider:
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-gu...-report-2015-7
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In 2013, the most current statistics available, 10,884,792 guns were manufactured in the United States, a spike of more than 2 million over the previous year. (The count excludes guns manufactured for the US military.)
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Overall, gun manufacturing has skyrocketed since 2009, the year Barack Obama — who has pushed for some limits on gun ownership — assumed the presidency.
In 2009, 5,555,818 guns were manufactured in the United States, a jump of more than 1 million over the previous year. Since then, gun manufacturing has nearly doubled.
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Here's the table of gun production from the ATF report Business Insider is reporting on.
Edit: WOW. Obama is the best thing that's ever happened to the gun industry. Take a look at the overall production numbers which are, on the whole, pretty flat from 1986-2007. 1988 and 1989 and a number of other years saw more guns manufactured than in 2007. 2008, Obama starts picking up steam in the election and gun-manufacturing starts to spike and has rocketed up every year since.