Clinging to Their Guns: Firearm Ownership Soars to Multi-Decade Highs

Mac Slavo
October 27th, 2011
SHTFplan.com
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You cannot invade the mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass.

Isoroku Yamamoto
Commander-in-Chief, Imperial Japanese Navy
Killed In Action, April 1943

We suspect that Admiral Yamamoto was more right than he could ever know.

As the economy continues its unimpeded fall into depression and uncertainty grips the country, Americans are responding by arming themselves at record levels:

Via The Daily Crux http://www.thedailycrux.com/ and Zero Hedge http://www.zerohedge.com/
Data Sourced via Gallup (1, http://www.gallup.com/poll/150353/Self- ... -1993.aspx 2) http://www.gallup.com/poll/150341/Recor ... n-Ban.aspx

Forty-seven percent of American adults currently report that they have a gun in their home or elsewhere on their property. This is up from 41% a year ago and is the highest Gallup has recorded since 1993, albeit marginally above the 44% and 45% highs seen during that period.



Almost half of American households have at least one firearm in their homes. Considering that many households have multiple weapons, we’d venture a guess that there are more firearms in American homes than there are people living within our borders.

We can’t help but feel proud about that. The second amendment, after countless attacks since the Republic came into existence, has survived and remains a formidable force against the spread of tyranny and criminal trespass by those who would do harm to the lawful.

There, are of course, those who would ban gun ownership altogether. They’re more than likely the people that have rarely picked up a history book to understand what happens when governments disarm their people. You need look at only one historical example to see the potentially horrific consequences of such actions:


German firearm laws and hysteria created against Jewish firearm owners played a major role in laying the groundwork for the eradication of German Jewry in the Holocaust. Disarming political opponents was a categorical imperative of the Nazi regime.

The Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution declares: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.â€