Confirmed: Barack Obama The Best Thing That Ever Happened to the U.S. Firearms Industry

By Robert Farago

Time to light-up a celebratory cigar. “Gun production has more than doubled under President Barack Obama’s administration, according to a report from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives,” al.com reports. “The ATF’s annual firearms commerce report includes the number of guns manufactured in the U.S. with data going back to 1986.” As my J School professor (one course I swear) told me to never to put stats in the lead ‘graph, you’ll have to click on the link or make the jump to savor the data. Suffice it to say, not only have gun rights advocates pushed back the anti-gunners on the national level and expanded gun rights in half a dozen states (though losing ground in the usual places), they’ve also . . .

bolstered the production of firearms. No small thanks to the anti-gunners who not only bring countless bloody example of firearms-related crime to the nation’s attention but constantly tie the victimization to the threat of civilian disarmament. By the numbers:

The report shows an increase in firearms manufacturing of more than 100 percent within the last four years. In 2010, more than 5.4 firearms were manufactured. That number grew to …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns