[News] 123, 000 licensed firearms dealers in the US - 13, 381 McDonald's
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Mon Jul 23 11:24:22 EDT 2012
*According to the latest numbers of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms, there are 123,000 licensed firearms dealers in the United
States, meaning there are roughly as many gun dealers as there are gas
stations.*
http://www.masoncountydailynews.com/news/national-news/35216-movie-theater-shooting-prompts-gun-control-debate
*There are 13,381 MCDonalds restaurants in the US - 33,000+ in the world*
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*Arms Treaty be Damned - USA Still Biggest Consumer Firearms
*July 18, 2012
<http://www.ammoland.com/2012/07/18/arms-trade-treaty-be-dammed-usa-still-the-biggest-consumer-of-firearms-imports-up-143/>
*USA -*-(Ammoland.com <http://www.ammoland.com/>)- It's a booming time
for gun sales in the USA, with significant growth since about 2005, but
given the reduction in both military and military contractors, law
enforcement agency budgets, compounded by lower consumer
confidence/purchasing power it's puzzling what the latest
firearms importation figures show.
Recent NSSF reports comparing year to year numbers through May 2012 show
92,000 more pistols were imported to the U.S. for a 68% jump over the
previous year, while revolver imports jumped 126% or about 17,000 more
revolvers. Much of that is probably strong Springfield XD/XDM sales
(Croatia-made), Glocks (Austria), SigSauers (Switzerland), Berettas
(Italy), and FNH Browning 5.7?s.
/While the Europeans make it difficult generally for civilian
consumers to own pistols they certainly are enthusiastic about the
jobs and tax revenues for manufacturing them for export./
The revolver jump is probably mostly attributable to Taurus Judge
revolvers (Brazil) and perhaps the new Chiappa revolver
<http://www.ammoland.com/2011/12/27/chiappa-arms-rhino-20ds-revolver/>
with the barrel attached to the bottom chamber of the cylinder for
superior ergonomics.
On a positive sign for exports America's handgun sales outside the U.S.
jumped 115% or about 25,000 units /(so we shipped out 44,000 and shipped
in 257,000 which sounds like "free trade" to me.)/ Semi auto pistols
were most of that jump, most likely Smith & Wesson and Ruger as sales of
their new models have been impressive, and don't forget that no one
makes as many variations of John Browning's 1911 .45acp pistol as
America does. On a disappointing note, only 2200 American revolvers
shipped out of the U.S. which given the many models marketed by Ruger,
S&W, Colt, USFA and Freedom Arms, it is sad that many of the revolvers
that sound like they're U.S. made are made in Italy, Germany, or Brazil.
*Rifle imports jumped 143% from 40,000 to 97,000 compared to last year. *
While fine traditional hunting rifles continue to be made across Europe,
it's likely much of this import number was CZ-USA and Tikka bolt action
rifles or semi-automatic rifles like those from SigSauer (Swiss) FNH
SCAR (Belgium), Heckler & Koch (Germany), Steyr-AUG (Austria) and
Kalashnikovs.
Unless, it was all 1891 Moisin Nagants
<http://www.ammoland.com/2012/03/12/mosin-nagant-rifle/> /(Belgian
designed, Soviet, Winchester, and Remington-made)/ which it could well
have been for how well these cheap, accurate, reliable loss-leaders have
been selling from Cabela's to very small dealer's racks. Not sure if the
Moisins got counted in this or not. As the State Department was fretting
over bringing back 90,000 American-made Garand rifles from South Korean
military <http://www.ammoland.com/tag/m1-carbine/> armories for civilian
sales and that's equivalent to ONE MONTH's import of comparatively
expensive rifles with comparable or superior performance,
/Federal government thinking remains elusive since they handle the
permits for all small arms going in and out, from shiploads of free
machine guns for our "allies" in Pakistan to high end African big
game rifles./
Rifle exports were up 27% but that's just 6,700 more rifles than the
24,000 last May, 2011. Given that most civilian rifle manufacturing of
all types remains concentrated in the U.S., it suggests just how small
and difficult to reach the rest of the world's civilian rifle market is.
Overseas dealers tell me, the lack of hunting access and shooting
ranges constrains the international recreational target shooting markets.
Shotgun imports continue to decline with 52,000 coming in and 15,000
going out. The basic consumer shotguns remain the cheapest long guns.
Turkey, Croatia, Russia, and China are making increasing numbers of
American-brands and their own brands of shotguns. Whether the adaptation
of the Kalashnikov to shotgun shells, as seen by Saiga, or the Marlin
lever action rifle design to .410, as seen by Taurus, will revive this
category, like home defense short-barrel/long-magazine shotguns have in
the past 20 years, remains to be seen?
*Ammunition Imports*
Shotgun shells came in nearly 30% higher in imports and in exports so
apparently either a lot more clay pigeons are dying out there or
shooters are stocking up on shells beyond the occasional box or two.
Shotgun ammunition or shotshells are little affected by the shortages in
rifle and handgun ammunition since it's made on different production lines.
/With shotguns, heavily recommended for anti-zombie defense, sales
could really pick up after "World War Z
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMm4s1268to>" comes out next year
starring Brad Pitt and written by Mel Brooks' son. Movies have more
influence on which guns sell than politicians./
Cartridge imports were up 39% from 170 million units to 237 million
units /(I don't know if that's individual rounds or boxes of 20/50
rounds?/) European ammunition manufacturers Sellier & Bellot, Fiocchi,
Wolf, Tula, etc. really gained a lot of shelf space during the
ammunition shortages the past few years while South Korean PMC has
broadened from military rounds to many more civilian rounds and regained
a lot of shelf space. We exported 63 million units, down a bit.
/The U.S. is the biggest civilian ammunition market, so exporting
isn't that attractive or there weren't many spare boxes to sell./
*For a look at the raw data visit the links below:*
* http://nssf.org/research/blasts/USITC_May2012.html
* http://www.nssf.org/share/PDF/industryresearchdocs/AFMER%202010%202011.pdf
* http://nssf.org/PDF/research/0512USITCRifleImportChart.pdf
Al Jones has worked with many parts of Shooting Sports and other
industries over 30 years as a management team member or advisor on
buisness growth. He can be found on LinkedIn
<http://www.linkedin.com/pub/al-jones/4/47b/546>, email
at aljonesrdo at bresnan.net, or on his blog is
www.aljonesbusinessgrowth.com
<http://www.aljonesbusinessgrowth.com/?ammoland>
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