Gun Sales Hit Record Highs, But What About Gun Accidents?

By Bob Owens

More people own guns now than ever before, so you might think that accidental and negligent shootings with firearms would be at an all-time high. In fact, the opposite has happened.

Recently published statistics show that as gun sales in the United States have hit record highs, accidental gun fatalities have simultaneously sunk to record lows.

The announcement by the National Safety Council (NSC) has taken ammunition away from the gun control activists, who have argued for years that fatalities and injuries in America increase as the number of firearms in citizen’s hands rises.

Guns don’t kill people …

According to NSC’s “Injury Report,” accidental deaths in 2015 plummeted to an all-time low of 489 in 2015. This comes despite the fact that gun sales over the past two years in the U.S. have escalated to lofty new heights.

It is reported by the Washington Examiner that the low number of accidental firearm fatalities accounts for a mere 0.3 percent of all deaths in the U.S. – the lowest percentage that has been registered since the statistic began being recorded more than a century ago back in 1903.

The organization that represents America’s gun industry, the National Shooting Sports Foundation …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms