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The nation’s gun craze propelled by politics and the coronavirus has now hit 16-straight months of shattering records, with April sales of at least 1.8 million and FBI background checks logging over 3.5 million.
The agency’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System recorded more checks in April 2021 than any other April. The FBI also said that each of the past 16 months has tallied record counts, dating back to December 2019.
Pushing the most recent surge has been concerns about President Joe Biden’s calls to ban semi-automatic firearms, namely AR-15-style rifles. They continue to be the most popular guns purchased in the United States.
US Firearm Sales See Small Year-Over-Year Increase to 1.8 Mil Firearms Ammoland Inc. Posted on
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U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) estimates April 2021 US firearms unit sales at just over 1.8 million units, a year-over-year increase of 2.1% from April 2020.
Detailed data by firearms type and state are available for purchase at SmallArmsAnalytics.com/shop/.
SAAF’s firearms unit sales estimates are based on raw data taken from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), adjusted for checks unlikely to be related to end-user firearms sales. For example, while the FBI’s raw numbers (for April, 3,485,016) increased year-over-year by 21.1%, this is largely due to background checks unrelated to end-user sales.
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POLICE BODY-CAM AND DASHBOARD VIDEOS SHOULD BE PUBLIC RECORD: Backers of the current law contend it might only need a tweak or that, as original law sponsor John Faircloth, R-Guilford County,, said it “only needs to be applied properly.” This law was faulty at its conception regardless of how many legislators voted for it or how much “bipartisan” support it had. The public’s business should be public. If there’s a reason to keep it secret, law enforcement can go to court to keep it under wraps. But the initial assumption should always be, that when the government collects information, it is public and up to the government to show why citizens don’t need to have access. The too tense situation in Elizabeth City more than amply demonstrates the 2016 law was misguided. Laws should promote domestic tranquility and this needs to be fixed before it contributes to even more unnecessary tensions.
Biden Gets Plenty Wrong on Guns During Congressional Address Ammoland Inc. Posted on IMG iStock-1219883323
U.S.A. -(AmmoLand.com)- President Joe Biden spoke for more than an hour to a limited Joint Session of Congress for his first major speech since his inauguration. It was during a three-minute stretch near the end, though, that the president got plenty wrong about firearms, the Second Amendment and the record number of diverse Americans who purchased guns during the last 15 months.
No Matter How Many Times You Say It…
President Biden talks big about “taking on the NRA.”
“I’ve done before and I’ll do it again,” he repeats again and again. “In the 90s we passed universal background checks. A ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that hold a hundred rounds…that can be fired off in seconds. We beat the NRA. Mass shootings and gun violence declined. Check out the report over ten years.”