Twenty-one million. Let that number sink in for a moment.
Guns in the news:
That’s a very big number. If I told you at SHOT Show® last year that the industry would see 21 million background checks for the sale of a firearm in 2020, you would have thought I was crazy. One year later and with the benefit of hindsight, this was truly a remarkable year for the industry across the board.
The final figures for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) put all of this year’s hard work into perspective. Twenty-one million background checks were conducted for the sale of a firearm over the past 12 months. That topped 2019’s totals of 13.2 million by 60 percent. It also shattered the previous record from 2016, when 15.7 million background checks were conducted for the sale of firearms. This year’s 21 million total surpassed 2016 by 5.3 million, or 34 percent.
Here’s one more incredible number to witness. NSSF estimates that 8.4 million people bought a firearm for the first time in 2020. That’s 40 percent of all purchases. This year’s buyer is increasingly diverse too. Forty percent of 2020’s buyers were women and the biggest increase of any demographic category was among African Americans, who bought guns at a rate of 58 percent greater than in 2019. more
I hope people didn’t buy all those guns just to turn them in.
23 million.
Oh, and this…
https://www.firearmsnews.com/editorial/gun-control-speeches-at-dnc-misleading/383610
So 8 million new gun owners and we are to believe basement Joe won.
“So 8 million new gun owners …. ”
You really think only one side of the political aisle is buying guns?
Background checks can be for multiple purchases.
Trust me.
It’s alot more than you think.
Anonymous
I think only one side of the political isle knows how to use them.
“Owning a gun doesn’t make you a shooter any more than owning a piano makes you a musician”….Col. Jeff Cooper
I’m one of many waiting for the manufacturer to back fill orders!
It’s a race against time at this point but I’m not lacking a variety now.
“I think only one side of the political isle knows how to use them.”
That kind of thinking is what results in overconfidence, and overconfidence when it comes to guns is what results in losing a gunfight.
Never, never underestimate your enemy or his ability, that’s how you lose in any conflict.
…and bend over. No lube this time.
https://ammoseek.com/share/a/182459044939
Happiness is having everything you think you could want or need before turning in your FFL. Then realizing a few years later that your supply of “components” is perhaps lacking. Then remedy that only to be inundated by “Could you let me have 10K primers, etc.”
May I not regret…
For those times that I have succumbed to giving loading supplies (not selling), I hope they honor the request to return/repay equal amount when supply chain catches up. If not maybe I have enough…
If you didn’t supply up after the last ammo shortage of a few years back, you’re lacking in cognitive function.
And if a new gun owner was buying a pistol, they sold them a 9 mil. Don’t plan on seeing 9 mil ammo plentiful any time soon
ANd that’s not counting people that have concealed carry permits.
I’m not worried about their rules. They’ll never know I’m carrying until that last spit second they hear it.
Been to the local shop twice in the last few weeks and it was packed both times.
Mac, there’s still a NICS, just no waiting.
Yeah, and the government pukes know where each and everyone of them is? Ain’t those background checks wonderful!!!!
“Mac, there’s still a NICS, just no waiting.”
Nope, they just write in the number on your permit. At least here in GA.
Same in NE Lowell.
A couple of months ago, I bought 2 online at once. 30 minutes later they said my order was ready for pickup. Walked in, showed ccw and drivers license, filled out a couple of forms and out the door in 10 minutes.
Hunter JANUARY 9, 2021 AT 4:47 PM
Obviously not an IL or CA resident!
Anymouse JANUARY 9, 2021 AT 4:52 PM
Forgot to mention, they also had ammo that day.
They don’t today though.
@Anon
You really think only one side of the political aisle is buying guns?
Only ONE side of the aisle knows which END the bullet comes out of. And it’s NOT the side that’s uncertain which bathroom to use in public…
I’m good!