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Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

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2. Thank you for your concern,

Reply to MrPurple (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 22, 2017, 03:32 PM

Jan 2017

but I will believe the conclusions of the VPC over an anonymous Internet poster. And for what it's worth, these are not my conclusions, but those of people who do these studies professionally.

The study didn't conclude that fewer GUNS are being sold, but that fewer unscrupulous dealers are selling guns to criminals.

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Number of Gun Dealers in U.S. Drops 77 Percent Since 1994 From 245,628 to 56,577VPC [View all] billh58 Jan 2017 OP

Deceptive because gun sales have increased MrPurple Jan 2017 #1

Thank you for your concern, billh58 Jan 2017 #2

I believe they also made it harder to get/keep a FFL... ret5hd Jan 2017 #3

I think you may be right Berlin Vet Jan 2017 #9

I didn't dispute the VPC's conclusions, it was yours MrPurple Jan 2017 #5

The facts are, the SAME people billh58 Jan 2017 #8

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