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on January 21, 2015 in World News

Retail Gun Sales Skyrocket, Violent Crime Lowest ‘Since 1978′

Retail Gun Sales Skyrocket, Violent Crime Lowest ‘Since 1978′ During a state of the industry presentation at the 2015 SHOT Show in Las Vegas, National Shooting Sports Foundation president Steven Sanetti said background checks for retail gun sales “are up 104 percent since 1994,” yet “violent crimes are at their lowest numbers since 1978.” Moreover, he said “murders are at their lowest rate since 1968.” Using the last decade as a microcosm, Sanetti said that as firearm sales “greatly increased…during the last ten years homicides involving firearms…[fell] 46 percent” and “fatal firearm accidents are down 22 percent.” He then offered… View Article

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