From the NSSF . . . NSSF, The Firearm Industry Trade Association, revealed that the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) completed 680,671 background checks related to firearms for the week leading up to, and including, “Black Friday,” one of the busiest shopping days of the year. That figure is down slightly from … Read more
America’s anti-gun governors have become some of the best gun salesmen in the country. Washington, Oregon, and Illinois were big reasons for a jump in gun sales in April. The NSSF’s Mark Oliva tells us that . . . April’s uptick of 1,369,296 FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verifications shows that there … Read more
From the NSSF: NSSF, the trade association for the firearm industry, updated retail survey-based estimates and concluded that nearly 5 million Americans purchased a firearm for the very first time in 2020. NSSF surveyed firearm retailers which reported that 40 percent of sales were conducted to purchasers who have never previously owned a firearm. NSSF tracks the … Read more
The National Shooting Sports Foundation’s latest Online Sales View numbers are a window into what guns Americans are buying right now, during the biggest gun sales surge in the history of history. As for who’s buying those guns, the NSSF also breaks out sales by state and so far, for 2020, here are the states … Read more
After the FBI released their raw NICS totals, this morning, the NSSF has now released the adjusted NICS firearm background check totals for June. The NSSF’s numbers correct for background checks run for purposes other than a gun purchase. To no one’s surprise, the June firearm sales numbers were staggering. Here’s their press release: The … Read more
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