{"id":68864,"date":"2021-06-10T11:09:29","date_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:09:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68864"},"modified":"2021-06-10T11:09:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T16:09:29","slug":"68864","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=68864","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Antigun Advocacy Group Tries To Rewrite Current History Of Gun Buyers<\/a><\/p>\n

It\u2019s widely established that law-abiding Americans are buying firearms at\u00a0record levels<\/a>. No one disputes it. Gun control groups decry the trend. Supporters of the Second Amendment celebrate it. But during the past 18 months, the fact is a historic number of Americans have taken ownership of their self-defense and that includes millions of first-time buyers who bought a gun.<\/p>\n

Leave it to staunch gun control advocate and billionaire Michael Bloomberg\u2019s agitprop bullhorn The Trace to \u201creport\u201d on a new \u201csurvey\u201d severely downplaying what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n

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Missing By A Mile<\/strong><\/p>\n

Antigun billionaire Michael Bloomberg funds 70 percent of The Trace\u2019s operations through his gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety. Now in typical fashion,\u00a0The Trace<\/a>\u00a0received a pre-release summary of new survey data from Northeastern and Harvard University researchers, both bastions of gun control groupthink, that\u00a0claim to speak with authority<\/a>\u00a0about the volume of first-time firearm owners that arose since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic. The Joyce Foundation, a \u201cgun violence prevention\u201d private foundation hosted, an exclusive data call \u201cto journalists and advocates.\u201d The CliffsNotes summary is astounding: the two universities found there\u2019s been no surge in the number of first-time gun buyers in America.<\/p>\n

\u201c3.8 million Americans became first-time gun owners in 2020, according to preliminary findings from a new survey of 19,000 people. That group accounted for 23 percent of all gun buyers last year, up slightly from 17 percent in 2019,\u201d the\u00a0article purports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

NSSF\u2019s data shows around 20 percent of gun buyers are first-timers in a normal year. In 2020, it was\u00a0double that<\/a>. But with the Joyce Foundation\u2019s \u201cresearch,\u201d the saying goes: You get what you pay for.<\/p>\n

Fool Me Twice, Shame On Me<\/strong><\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time The Joyce Foundation has used the same antigun playbook to run the \u201cexclusive survey results\u201d teaser play. They previously partnered with the same\u00a0Northwestern<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Harvard<\/a>\u00a0University players as well. The group organized a similar press call\u00a0in 2016<\/a>, this time with The Guardian and The Trace, to push another fallacy, suggesting that only three percent of American gun owners hold 50 percent of the firearms.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the new [unpublished] survey estimates that [out of 265 million] 133m of these guns are concentrated in the hands of just 3% of American adults \u2013 a group of super-owners who have amassed an average of 17 guns each,\u201d the Guardian\u00a0reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The survey remained unpublished for good reason. At that time, Pew polling showed nearly 45 percent of American households possessed firearms. Gallup and other polling suggested the same. Not surprisingly, Joyce wouldn\u2019t release the full survey and\u00a0ignored outreach<\/a>\u00a0seeking clarification. Obfuscating survey methodology and complete data is their game, which makes review of this current survey\u2019s claims impossible. The objective of the recent survey is clear: quell any claim that first-time firearm ownership grew abundantly during the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Given the leadership of The Joyce Foundation, the researchers involved and the \u201cnews\u201d outlet used in the ruse, the message and motive are clear. The Joyce Foundation \u201cfinanced scholarships for law schools to promote a legal theory that the Second Amendment does not protect an individual\u2019s right to bear arms, claiming the amendment guaranteed a state government\u2019s right to arm an organized militia,\u201d according to\u00a0InfluenceWatch.org<\/a>.\u00a0When the U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the individual right to keep and bear arms under\u00a0Heller,<\/em>\u00a0The Joyce Foundation switched tactics, labeling gun control as a \u201cpublic health\u201d issue. Joyce donated millions to the antigun group Violence Policy Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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