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(17,493 posts)ammunition to absolutely skyrocket this year.
I had hopes that some much needed legislation would pass such as a universal background check, improvements to our NICS background check system, stronger enforcement and penalties to prevent the straw purchase and smuggling of firearms and efforts to take firearms from the criminal element.
Unfortunately Dianne Feinstein and the gun control movement decided to push for another useless assault weapons ban. I knew right then that any hopes for improvements in our gun control law at the federal level were doomed. There was absolutely no way that an assault weapons ban could pass in the Republican controlled House and was unlikely to pass in the Senate. I was right.
The NRA was able to publish a lot of propaganda and its membership increased dramatically. Gun manufacturers could not keep up with the demand for firearms and ammunition flew off the shelves in gun stores and Walmart. The push for the new assault weapons ban proved to be a bonanza for the gun and ammo manufacturers.
So our country is no safer today than it was before the tragic massacres we have lived through recently. We did nothing to close the "gun show loophole" or to stop the smuggling of guns to our inner city streets. We now have millions of new firearms in the hands of people, many who have little experience and training with these dangerous weapons. To top that off many gun owners have thousands and thousands of rounds stockpiled in their homes.