Guns Are Stolen in America Up to Once Every Minute.

[flamin lib]

https://www.thetrace.org/2016/09/stolen-guns-cars-trucks-us-atlanta/

Owners Who Leave Their Weapons in Cars Make It Easy for Thieves. Police data shows thefts of firearms from vehicles are rising in many large cities. One gun swiped from a truck in Atlanta was used in three crimes, including a murder.

Privately owned firearms are stolen in America with alarming frequency: between 300,000 and 600,000 every year, a forthcoming survey of gun ownership by researchers at Harvard and Northeastern universities will show. At the high end, that’s more than 1,600 guns stolen every day, more than one every minute. That’s enough firearms to provide a weapon for every instance of gun violence in the country each year — several times over.
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The research reveals a country whose gun-owning citizens are increasingly worried about the threat of violence — even though crime rates have fallen — and are responding to that fear by purchasing handguns in big numbers.

Pistol manufacturing has swelled, from less than 600,000 in 2001 to more than 3.6 million in 2014, the last year for which data is available. In some regions, especially in the South and Midwest, the surge in handgun popularity has coincided with an effective lobbying campaign, spearheaded by the National Rifle Association, to expand the number of people legally allowed to carry guns in public, and the number of places where they may carry them.

Every time a state or community tries to address this issue with safe storage laws, the NRA sues them.

[billh58]

1. Blood money through marketing:

the surge in handgun popularity has coincided with an effective lobbying campaign, spearheaded by the National Rifle Association, to expand the number of people legally allowed to carry guns in public, and the number of places where they may carry them.

All in the name of the Holy Second Amendment and protection of the right to overthrow the elected government of the United States (for profit).