Economics of Gun Control

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Economics of Gun Control

Money and guns, often goes together. Sometimes used for the protection

of cash, other times made on the sales and use of guns and ammo.Manufactured and sold openly, weapons of every description are a stablein the marketplace. Yet, firearms seem especially targeted for ownershipextinction by law-abiding citizens. Ironically, the public purchases ofpersonal pistols, rifles and shotguns are systematically restricted andregulated, while law enforcement officials add the latest in advancedordinances to their arsenals. The obvious message is that the governmentis preparing for war against their own citizens.

The distinguished sage, Murray Rothbard, inThe Economics of Gun

Control, offers a historic example of government regulation for intentionalconsolidation designed to eliminate the mom and pop neighborhoodgunsmith.

"The latest gun control proposals from the Clinton administration provide aninstructive, if unwitting, lesson in the economics of government intervention.Until this year, if you wanted to become a federally licensed gun dealer,
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you only needed to pay $10 a year. But the "Brady Bill" raised the federallicense fee to $66 a year a more than 500% increase at one blow. Eventhis is not enough for Secretary of the Treasury Lloyd Bentsen, whoproposes to raise fees by no less than another tenfold, to $600 a year.

One fascinating aspect of this drastic rise in license fees is that Bentsenactually proclaims and welcomes its effect as a device to cartelize the retailgun industry. Thus, Bentsen, in the non sequitur of the year, complains thatthere are 284,000 gun dealers in the country, "31 times more gun dealersthan there are McDonald's restaurants."

That bastion of self-defense docility, the New York Times inGun Control asEconomic Stimulus, describes the inflow of federal receipts since theselection of Barack Obama to be the head gun grabber. Well, before the

Sandy Hook false flag self-justification excuse for banning numerous smallarms, the trend to hoard guns and ammo became a growth industry.

"Here's a chart showing millions ofdollars of firearms and ammunition

excise taxes collected at the federal level over the last decade:

Firearm and ammunition tax revenues skyrocketed for a different reason:These went up because people were simply buying more guns andammunition, apparently because they feared Barack Obama would curb

their access to deadly weapons upon taking office."

In the consistent statist tradition of disarming the public, the haters of theSecond Amendment look to curtail sales to individuals.The economicsbehind the U.S. gun control debateillustrates the trends for sales togovernment agencies as the future market for the gun industry.

"At a time when the U.S. economy is fragile, it's more difficult to clampdown on an industry that posts annual sales of $12 billion and has beengenerating new, high-paying, high-skill jobs at an impressive pace. In fact,

over the past two years - as U.S. unemployment has surged over eight percent - the gun industry has created 26,000 new jobs that pay an average of$47,000 a year in salaries and benefits.

Furthermore, rather than suffering through the recession, gun sales haveclimbed as Americans have become more fearful of police budget cuts,rising crime, general civil unrest and, post-9/11, terrorist threats.
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The fact that U.S. government agencies, spurred by new counterterrorismmeasures, account for 40 per cent of gun industry revenues is also acrucial consideration . . ."

Keepers of the peace have become predators of the Homeland Securitysociety. The neutering of local authority for federal jurisdiction is the hiddenresult of all the latest legislation intended to unarm the public.

By now, you probably heard the account ofFeds Buy Two Billion Rounds ofAmmunition, as reported in Breitbart.

"It's not the number of bullets we need to worry about but the number offeds with guns it takes to use those bullets. There are currently more than70 different federal law enforcement agencies employing over 120,000

officers with arrest and firearms authority . . . That's an increase of nearly30 percent between 2004 and 2008. If the trends have continued upward ata relatively steady rate, that would put the total number of federal lawenforcement officers at somewhere between 135,000 and 145,000. That'sa pretty staggering number, especially when you consider that there areonly an estimated 765,000 state and local law enforcement officers. Thatmeans that about one in seven law enforcement officers in the countryworks directly for the federal government, not a local jurisdiction."

The operational economics of gun control legislation has the purpose of

maintaining a state controlled monopoly for firearms. One such exampleseen in the bill, known as theNY SAFE Act, included is a ban on any semi-automatic rifles or shotguns with "military-style" features, such as a pistolgrip or a folding stock, has the goal of disarming the public. Such draconianmethods drive the trade in guns underground. The black market in armsbecomes the defiant mart for the new criminalization of self-protectionseeking citizens.

The natural response from gun manufacturers, which are in the libertysurvival business, is to boycott sales of their products to the very tyrannicalgovernment that wants to stamp out constitutional rights. Companies likeOlympic Arms, LaRue Tactical, York Arms, Templar Custom and EFI, arecutting off sales to law enforcement agencies within jurisdictions that enactunconstitutional laws and regulations. A more complete list can be found in,Gun Companies Boycotting Law Enforcement In Anti-Gun States.
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The federal SWAT shooters follow bureaucratic orders, as they tear downthe last vestige of a free people. Curtailing or driving out of business,legitimate firearm manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers, is a part of theplan to eliminate resistance to the gun grabbing despotic regime.

Just look how far the anti gun culture politicos have gone since the Clinton

era to tax gun sales out of business. Today your very ownInherent

Autonomyexistence is at stake from state governments as well as the

federal tyrant.
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