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« Remington planning on bankruptcy | Main | Firearm sales hit new record »

Record firearm sales

Posted by David Hardy · 29 June 2020 12:40 PM

Barak Obama and Bill Clinton have just fallen to 2nd and 3rd great gun salesmen in history. Antifa is leaving them in the dust.

"More than 6.5 million gun-sale background checks were conducted from January 1 through April 30, according to the latest NSSF research, which showed a 48% year-over-year rise from the same period in 2019. Firearms retailers surveyed by NSSF in May estimated that 40% of their sales came from first-time gun buyers."

When I started writing on the gun issue in the late 1970's, the US was producing 3 million firearms a year. In the last few years, it was six million per year. Now, its six million in four months.

11 Comments | Leave a comment

Bigus Macus | June 29, 2020 4:26 PM | Reply

So the big question is, how will these sleepers, and liberals vote in November? Do you think they will be woke? Or are they going to go down the same path as before? Do you think that they will understand what brought them to this point?

"Father the Sleeper has Awaken" should be there mantra.

Fyathyrio | June 29, 2020 6:31 PM | Reply

I doubt that making the pragmatic decision to get the tools to protect themselves during civil unrest will bring about a sea change in liberal voting once society calms down. I suspect most will put the icky gun high on a dusty shelf and vote for Joe the Creeper this fall without even understanding the irony.

oldguy | June 30, 2020 6:55 AM | Reply

and be among the first to turn them in when they are banned?

Alan Booth | June 30, 2020 7:15 AM | Reply

Just like the Catholics who vote for pro-abortion Dems (and this is not an issue I even care about), and upper and upper middle class Jewish Americans (who I count as many of my friends) who vote for anti-Isreal Dems, these new gun owners will still vote the straight Dem ticket. In different times, a good job of educating the new gun owners on the politics of the 2nd Amendment might work, but I think there are too many other issues going on to distract them.

Fyooz | June 30, 2020 9:04 AM | Reply

Alan: "and be among the first to turn them in when they are banned?"

Probably not, because they think they are the ones who deserve protection from those guns, and not whom those bans and registrations and regulations were intended to affect.

These people think laws are for their inferiors, not for themselves.

Mark-1 | June 30, 2020 12:58 PM | Reply

Big mistake believing a new gun purchaser equates to a new pro-gun activist, especially if the purchaser's a democrat. Pro-2A orgs have a habit being republican-conservative pacs, not single issue, non-partisan orgs. Highly doubtful many Democrat Voters will vote for a Republican-Conservative no matter what their pro-gun stand is.

This not being a non-partisan, single issue org is a huge mistake by Pro-Gunners. JMO

OldJarhead03 | June 30, 2020 1:25 PM | Reply

Any increase in new gun owners is a plus. Some attitudes will be changed by the forms, record checks, supply problems and in some cases waiting periods they were subjected to. In any case, it is one more gun owner that will have to be disarmed.

m. | July 3, 2020 8:23 AM | Reply

gun c*ntrol d-suckers will do anything

HSR47 replied to comment from OldJarhead03 | July 3, 2020 10:27 AM | Reply

@Mark-1: The issue of big-tent partisanship from gun rights groups is largely a consequence rather than a catalyst: The NRA did a pretty good job of staying away from other political issues, and of supporting politicians of all parties.

At least they did, until the politicians from every party other than the GOP decided that the NRA were terrorists out to kill babies in their cribs.

Having gun rights vs gun restrictions being a non-partisan issue that leans at least a little bit in our favor is a good goal.

Having gun rights vs gun restrictions being a non-partisan issue that leans strongly against us is something we absolutely cannot afford.

Having gun rights vs gun restrictions being a party-line issue in a greater culture war is not desirable, but is preferable to our issue being a non-partisan issue that leans against us.

In other words, the NRA bought into the whole "the democrats are waging a broad cultural war against our way of life" narrative in response to the democrat party going all in on abolishing gun rights.

Mike | July 3, 2020 11:56 AM | Reply

I would say that the NRA bought into the whole "the democrats are waging a broad cultural war against our way of life" narrative because, well, the democrats are waging a broad cultural war against our way of life.

34 | July 3, 2020 5:42 PM | Reply

Yeah... after all the blue dog democrats killed themselves supporting Obamacare, there were no more pro-gun democrats on the national stage for the NRA to support...

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