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According to market and consumer data company Statista, revenue in the cannabis market is forecast to reach $47.2 billion this year. Most of that revenue, $32.9 billion, is projected to come from the...
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The United States is the largest civilian firearm market in the world. And though the $70.5 billion domestic gun and ammunition industry churns out millions of new firearms every year, a significant...
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America’s gun industry is booming. More than 11.3 million firearms were manufactured in the United States in 2020, more than double the 5.6 million produced in 2010, and nearly triple the 3.9...
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In second half of the 19th century, after the conclusion of the Civil War and into the 20th century, there was a major influx of immigrants looking for work, as well as advances in technology. This...
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Domestic rifle manufacturing spiked 165% from 1.6 million in 2000 to over 4.2 million in 2016. Though 2016 stands as the peak year for rifle production in the U.S., demand remains relatively strong....
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On Friday, A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket completed a successful launch from Cape Canaveral, carrying commercial communications equipment as well as NASA’s TEMPO earth observation instrument. It was the...
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After months of congressional delays, U.S. president Joe Biden signed the 2023 defense budget, approved by Congress, in late December. The act approved the Pentagon to spend $816.7 billion on defense...
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The Oregon House of Representatives passed this week a gun control package, which would increase the minimum age to buy most guns to 21 — with the exception of some hunting rifles — and prevent...
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Despite American production ranging from 5.5 million to 11.5 million firearms each year in the past decade, the U.S. also imports millions of guns each year. And in recent decades, handguns have made...
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The war in Ukraine stretches on well into its second year. The conflict, which many pundits expected to end after a few months, has exceeded all but the most conservative estimates, largely because...
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Last month at a UN climate summit in Egypt, leaders came to an agreement to help support poorer nations deal with the disastrous long-term effects of climate change. However, the summit failed to...
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The globe’s population passed 8 billion last year, according to the United Nations, just 11 years after reaching 7 billion. The U.N. projects continued global population expansion in the millions...
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When Russia launched its military invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, experts and analysts predicted that Russia, given its perceived military superiority, would prevail and the conflict would be...
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This week, after a three-day summit in Japan, members of the G7 pledged to intensify sanctions. The consequences of the West’s sanctions on Russia drag on month after month. Energy prices, and...
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Following a serious rupture of the Keystone pipeline in Kansas this past December, the Federal government last month announced that stricter regulations were on the way, targeting Canada’s TC...
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