So far this year, a person has been shot and killed or injured in a suspected road rage incident on average every 18 hours in the United States, data shows.
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May gun sales nationally surged, in a time period directly after President Joe Biden promoted new gun control measures.
According to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System figures, in May 2021, there were over 3.2 million background checks conducted for the sale of a firearm. That s an increase of more than 130,000 background checks from May 2020.
That coincides with the Biden administration s gun control moves. In early April, the president announced a raft of gun control measures, which the Justice Department would issue as regulations within 60 days. Proposed rules pertained to “ghost guns,” in which individual parts bought are put together in a way that makes the composite firearm illegal, and model red-flag laws for states, which are aimed at preemptively seizing guns of individuals deemed by a judge to be a threat to themselves or others.