By Lee Williams These are the most perilous times many Second Amendment watchdogs have ever seen. Our right to keep and bear arms is under constant assault by a troika of would-be infringers: the Biden-Harris administration — the most anti-gun group of bullies to occupy the White House in modern times — the legacy media, … Read more
In recent years, the FBI — which manages the system that vets gun buyers — processed an average of 8.6 million gun background checks annually, according to historical data analyzed by FiveThirtyEight. But last year, the bureau processed 12,761,328 background checks, according to FBI data obtained by FiveThirtyEight through a public records request. Perhaps most … Read more
Lots of learned media members and assorted Twitterati have opined that the Bidenharris administration is nothing more than a third Obama administration. Or perhaps Obama on steroids. Whatever. After only a couple of weeks on the job, it looks like one area in which President Grampy McUnity will completely outshine his old boss in is … Read more
Yawn. It’s no longer considered news that Americans continue to buy guns at a never-seen-before pace. We’ve been beating down the doors of gun stores since March due to the pandemic and then civil unrest (not to mention prisoner releases and the defund-the-police movement). Throw in the usual Presidential election season bump in sales and … Read more
It’s no longer surprising each month when the FBI issues its monthly report of the number of National Instant Check System background checks they’ve done the previous month. Since the beginning of the pandemic — and then accelerating in may when social unrest spread nationwide — Americans have been buying guns faster than any time … Read more
The FBI’s NICS gnomes were awfully busy in June. Televised nationwide rioting and looting tend to motivate people who don’t already own a firearm to tool up. And tool up they apparently did. The FBI just released its monthly report of the number of National Instant Check System background checks performed last month and June … Read more
The FBI’s March NICS background data for march was released yesterday and it was every bit as horrific as the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex feared it would be. The adjusted background check data quantified what we’ve all seen in the photos of Americans lining up — sometimes for hours — outside of gun stores all … Read more
Americans recognize a threat to their Second Amendment rights when they hear it. And they’ve been hearing it in ever more strident tones for months now. The result: the latest Democrat-fueled gun boom is well and truly on. And the buying frenzy led to the second-largest NICS check volume in FBI history on Friday. The … Read more
“It’s a funny thing about American consumers – when they think they’re not going to be able to get something, they’ll rush out and buy it.” – Dave Workman in Legacy of ’03 SF rampage [via sfgate.com]
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