Gun sales fell below record levels since Donald Trump was elected president, but the Washington Post reports they are still rising among minorities who are scared of Trump’s administration.
Since the November 8, 2016 election of Donald Trump, the Dow Jones has surged — but the prices of gun stocks have fallen.
Newly-released FBI figures show that the number of background checks conducted for gun purchasers in 2016 were so high they actually beat the previous annual record by more than 4 million.
As gun sales have skyrocketed over the past 19 months, ammunition sales have also surged, with “17,850 tons” of imported ammunition being sold in the past 12 months.
Already, more background checks for firearm purchases have been conducted in 2016 than any year in history.
The number of background checks for gun purchases performed on Black Friday 2016 broke the record for Black Friday background checks as well as the overall single day record.
Background checks indicate retail gun sales have been on a record pace for the past 18 months, and gun store owners say women are a driving force behind the surging sales.
Sales of AR-15s and the earnings of Sturm, Ruger and Co. have something in common during the last portion of the current presidential election cycle: both are skyrocketing.
The previous record was 1,976,759 background checks, set in October 2015, but the latest FBI figures show 2,333,539 checks were performed in October 2016. That is an increase of 356,780 background checks.
The latest figures from the FBI show that August was the 16th consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales.
Gun sales in California are on pace to break records — perhaps even to reach 1 million sales by the end of calendar year 2016, according to Southern California Public Radio station KPCC.
The previous July record was set in 2015, when there were 1,600,832 background checks. But the FBI reports that July 2016 there were 2,197,169–an increase of nearly 600,000 checks.
New FBI figures show June 2016 is the 14th consecutive month of record background checks for gun sales.
Hunter’s Warehouse says it sold 30,000 AR-15s during the first seven days following the Orlando, Florida, terrorist attack.
FBI figures show that May 2016 was the thirteenth consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales.
Gun sales in California are surging and on track to equal–if not surpass–the record number of guns sold during 2015.
FBI figures show that April 2016 was the twelfth consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales in the U.S.
Facebook has spent $16 million on armed security for billionaire progressive Mark Zuckerberg.
There was a “36 percent” increase in the number of background checks conducted in January, February, and March 2016 compared to the number conducted during the same time period in 2015.
FBI figures show that March 2016 was the 11th consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales in the U.S.
On March 1 San Francisco Supervisor Mark Farrell (D) introduced an expansion to city’s gun storage mandate for handguns that would require all rifles and shotguns be locked away or disabled in the home as well.
FBI figures show that February 2016 was the tenth consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales in the U.S.
The growing violence and “bloodshed” in Chicago contributed to recording-setting months for background checks in Illinois during 2015, including an all-time single month record in December. According to the Chicago Sun-Times, December, November, August, and June all set monthly records
The FBI reports that January 2016 was the ninth consecutive month of record background checks for gun purchases in the U.S.
New data from the California Department of Justice (DOJ) shows that gun sales skyrocketed following the December 2 San Bernardino terrorist attack.
The FBI’s background-check figures show that 2015 shattered the annual record for background checks, and December 2015 alone broke the record for the number of checks performed in a given month.
Gun sales and gun permit applications have soared in Germany in the wake of the sex attacks in Cologne on New Years Eve. Cologne, Düsseldorf and Frankfurt are all reporting an influx of requests for permits with Cologne police estimating
During the January 14 GOP Debate, moderator Maria Bartiromo asked Donald Trump if there “are any circumstances in which we should be limiting gun sales of any kind in America?” And Trump said, “No.”
Obama faces a quandary—the NRA is gaining support and gun control is losing it.
On January 4, the White House released a fact sheet which previews the executive gun control Obama will announce Tuesday, and it reveals there is no numerical threshold of sales that a private seller has to cross before being considered “engaged in the business of dealing in firearms.”
Although background checks on Black Friday were record-setting, SK Arms in Midland, TX, says sales the day after President Obama’s terrorism/gun control speech were even bigger.
On December 10, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it is “tragic” that Americans are pouring into gun stores to buy weapons because America is already “awash in guns.”
The Simpsonville Gun & Pawn store in Simpsonville, South Carolina, is advertising gun sales on its marquee by telling passersby that one surefire way to “piss off Obama” is to “buy a gun.”
On December 8 Fox News reported that more than 100 million guns have been sold since the election of President Obama.
The security guard on duty Wednesday at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino was unarmed when two terrorists opened fire in a conference room, killing 14 people and injuring 21 others.
On December 3–the day after Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire in San Bernardino, California–gun sales and concealed carry permit applications surged around the country.
On November 25, President Obama signed the NRA-backed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) containing provisions to protect lead ammo, expand military-to-civilian gun sales, and give local commanders the ability to allow base personnel to be armed.
While President Obama, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Hillary Clinton, and others have been pledging gun control in 2015, investors who own stock in Sturm Ruger, Smith & Wesson Corp., and other firearm manufacturers have seen returns at approximately 70 percent.
2013 was a banner year for gun sales, with a record 21,093,273 background checks for gun purchases completed. And with all those new guns in circulation, the FBI reports that murders and robberies have decreased.
On September 24, Pope Francis scolded Congress for guns and weapons which are manufactured in America and sold around the world.
