An intresting take...
"Gun stores had revenue of about $11 billion,
IBIS World said in its 2018 report. Gun and ammunition manufacturers had
revenue of $17 billion, but the majority of that revenue comes from the defense side of the equation: arms sales to the U.S. and foreign governments.
These numbers just aren’t that large. A single company, Amazon, had revenue of $178 billion a year in 2017. The GDP of the United States is more than $19 trillion.
What is larger than the revenue in the gun business is the amount of money spent securing ourselves against America’s gun violence problem, though it’s harder to separate.
The security alarm business alone, for instance, brings in $25 billion a year. There are 1.1 million security guards employed in the United States, according to the Department of Labor. I’m guessing the business of a company like ALICE Training Institute, which provides civilian training on how to respond to active shooters, is probably booming right now. The Washington Post estimated schools are
spending $2.7 billion a year on security measures. Government spending on domestic homeland security
averaged $65 billion per year from 2002 to 2017."
America's Gun Business Is $28B. The Gun Violence Business Is Bigger.
My take on this bs...
Both sides of the gun control issue are making alot of money and why would the government want to ban guns when they can just pretend to be the only ones that can protect us from our own guns or another fake threat.