By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
For the first time in years, the number of people buying guns during the previous month has dipped below 1 million, according to data announced Monday by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).
“July’s figures of 978,731 background checks for the sale of a firearm at retail beings an end to the streak of over 1 million background checks each month that ran for nearly six years,” said Mark Oliva, NSSF managing director for public affairs. “Summer months routinely show lower background check figures than other times of the year and we’ve watched as the background check figures came down from astronomical highs several years ago. There are factors that contribute to this, including relief of concern that politics would deny some from being able to exercise Second Amendment rights to purchase a firearm of one’s choice and economic uncertainty. Firearm manufacturers continue to work to produce high-quality, safe, and reliable firearms to meet the demand of discerning customers across the nation.”
According to the Washington Examiner, this downturn may be due to having Donald Trump back in the White House. He has promised to protect the Second Amendment.
Ever since August 2019, Americans purchased more than a million firearms every month. They offered multiple reasons, but the bottom line is that guns were being sold at an amazing volume.
Much of the buying could have been because Joe Biden was in office, and he was not friendly to the Second Amendment.
It is not only a change in presidents. It also might be partly attributed to Congress being controlled by Republicans, who have traditionally been more friendly to gun rights than their Democrat colleagues.
Gone is Biden’s White House Office of Gun Violence Prevention, a gun control sham aimed at supporting more gun restrictions.
The FBI produces a monthly report on the number of background checks initiated into the National Instant Check System (NICS), and NSSF adjusts the data to determine the number of NICS checks which actually involved a firearms transaction.
The Washington Examiner called it “one of the most amazing consumer streaks” in memory.
