Institution media is all abuzz about how homicides within the U.S. plummeted final yr by greater than 20 p.c from the earlier yr—the single-largest one-year drop on report, in response to CBS Information—whereas overlooking the actual fact this occurred at a time when American gun possession is at its highest degree, ever.
Again on Jan. 15, the Nationwide Taking pictures Sports activities Basis (NSSF) reported, primarily based on 2023 knowledge, “The estimated whole variety of firearms in civilian possession from 1990–2023 is 506.1 million (emphasis added),” and the good cash would wager on there being hundreds of thousands extra now.
The announcement coincided with the 2025 Taking pictures, Looking and Outside Commerce (SHOT) Present in Las Vegas, the place much more firearms commerce occurred and scores of recent firearms had been launched, which is able to lead to much more gross sales in 2026.
This raises an necessary query: How are the gun prohibition lobbying teams, even with the backing of billionaires who should purchase a lot of slick publicity, going to speak their means out of this?
In spite of everything, for many years anti-gunners have declared repeatedly—and located themselves instantly and unquestionably quoted by the exact same press institution now bragging up the lowered homicide figures—that extra weapons in non-public palms would assure extra blood within the streets.
The Crime Prevention Analysis Middle reported in December the newest figures on lively hid carry licenses and permits hover at roughly 20.88 million. This doesn’t depend the hundreds of thousands of unlicensed residents now legally carrying in 29 states which have adopted what’s generically known as “Constitutional Carry.”
The Supreme Courtroom seems poised at hand down a ruling on hid carry someday this summer season which may throw “delicate locations” restrictions within the trash.
As Alan Gottlieb, chairman of the Residents Committee for the Proper to Preserve and Bear Arms noticed final October—quoted in an Ammoland report on the time—in response to a narrative within the anti-gun Hint, ““For a few generations, we’ve got seen one gun management fable after one other used as excuses to limit our Second Modification rights. But right here we’re, at a time when these rights are being steadily restored, when states have adopted Constitutional Carry legal guidelines, extra folks personal weapons and extra persons are legally carrying them for private safety, and The Hint acknowledges violent crime involving weapons is declining. Seems to be like we’ve been proper all alongside, and the anti-gun media primarily simply admitted it.”
The New York Instances, which has been historically unfriendly to the Second Modification whereas vigorously defending the First Modification, famous in its report on the crime scenario, “The evaluation of information from 40 cities, by the Council on Legal Justice, a nonpartisan suppose tank, discovered across-the-board decreases in crime final yr in comparison with 2019: 25 p.c fewer homicides, 13 p.c fewer shootings and 29 p.c fewer carjackings. Between 2024 and 2025, solely drug crimes went within the incorrect course, however they had been nonetheless decrease than in 2019.”
The Instances, like CBS Information and different “legacy media” giants, additionally fastidiously ignored the logistically unattainable—if one had been to imagine Everytown and Giffords and Brady—scenario now at hand. Someplace north of a half-billion firearms are privately owned within the U.S., and but murders have dramatically declined throughout the first yr of the second Donald Trump administration, which has been portrayed by the gun management crowd as dangerously loosening firearms laws.
One have a look at the Everytown for Gun Security Fb web page acquaints viewers with all that’s essential to know concerning the gun prohibition lobbying effort. One message which simply may underscore the vacancy of this group’s rhetoric states, “Functions for silencers and different weapons regulated by the Nationwide Firearms Act elevated by a staggering 5,900% the primary day that Trump’s $200 tax lower on these lethal weapons went into impact.”
A glance across the panorama doesn’t reveal oceans of blood flowing into storm drains in consequence. And nonetheless, Everytown and its allies keep away from the truth that violent crime has dropped on the similar time gun possession, and evidently purposes for suppressors, has soared.
No one is speaking about the actual story behind what The Hill revealed the opposite day: “The typical murder charge, measured per 100,000 residents, within the 35 cities was 10.4 in 2025, down from 13.2 in 2024, 15.9 in 2023 and 17.7 in 2022. The speed peaked at 18.6 homicides per 100,000 residents in 2021, up from 18 in 2020, 13.9 in 2019 and 12.9 in 2018, per the research.” Why isn’t the media quoting NSSF-adjusted knowledge from the Nationwide Immediate Verify System (NICS) which has proven constant counts of greater than one million gun-related background checks per thirty days over the previous a number of years?
Many years in the past, the false prophecy opera included predictions of one other ice age by now. Then the world would run out of oil. And extra weapons within the palms of trustworthy, law-abiding residents would flip the U.S. into the Killing Fields.
We haven’t frozen. We’re nonetheless pumping oil. And we’ve got extra weapons than we did 25 years in the past. Maybe the institution media ought to start out asking the embarrassing questions, and demand greater than phrase salad for the solutions.
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About Dave Workman
Dave Workman is a senior editor at TheGunMag.com and Liberty Park Press, writer of a number of books on the Proper to Preserve & Bear Arms, and previously an NRA-certified firearms teacher.
