Posted on 09/21/2017 12:41:23 PM PDT by marktwain
The Trump era of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks has had eight months of high sales. The record for NICS checks was set in 2017, with over 27 million NICS checks for the year. 2015 was the second highest year for NICS Checks with over 23 million checks done.
The National Instant Background Check System (NICS) checks were 1,925,146 in August of 2017. There were 16,268,794 since January 1, more checks than all of 2010. In 2016 the number was 17,880,475 at the end of August. Through August 2015, they were 13,812,485. The 2017 August figure is 1.04% of the 2016 NICS checks and 110% of the 2015 NICS checks.
Firearm sales and NICS checks are having a good year. The overall NICS checks are at 92% of the all-time record through August. 2017 is looking to surpass 2015 as the second highest year for the number of NICS checks since NICS started in 1999.
The high number of NICS checks reflects an expanded base of firearms owners and shooters who are buying more guns under the expectation of a prosperous Trump Presidency. Gallup released a poll on September 8th, that shows U.S. investor optimism at a 17 year high. From gallup.com:
A new surge of optimism among U.S. investors has pushed the Wells Fargo/Gallup Investor and Retirement Optimism Index to its highest level since September 2000. The index, after rising in every quarter since the start of 2016, leveled off in the second quarter at +124 before rising to its current +138 in the third quarter.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
Since the end of the Obama era availability is up and prices are down on ammo and many guns - it’s hard not to buy more!!!
I did my part for 2016!
Let’s see what Santa brings me for Christmas 2017; I need more ‘pink’ in my arsenal. ;)
“Gun sales continue at high rates. 2017 looks to be the second highest year on record.”
Just a moment, here. The data for October, November, and December are complete fabrications.
While the minions of the greatest salesman in the history of firearms are still in the swamp, and violently protesting, guns sales will still be high.
The record for NICS checks was set in 2017...
That cannot be true, as 2017 is not yet over. I believe he meant 2016.
The 2017 August figure is 1.04% of the 2016 NICS checks and 110% of the 2015 NICS checks.
Perhaps he means 104% of 2016?
Since there is no data for those months yet to come, the sales are through September so far, and started on Jan. 1 of 2017. Thus your statement is a total misunderstanding of what was being stated. The top year so far was through the same time period in that year. In fact it may end of exceeding that year, once the year is complete.
Hey, I had a senior moment. There’s no need to go on about it at length.
I should have written that there are as yet no data for the last three months of this year, while sales were up substantially for the last three months of the preceding year. What reason is there to anticipate that sales will rise in those months of 2017 as they did in 2016?
Are you looking at the blue line thinking it is a projection? Because if that is the case, look again as it is the sales for 2016, and not a projection. I didn’t realize I went on about anything. I was just trying to make my point, and I thought I did it rather nicely. BTW, we all have senior moments, so I wasn’t ragging you on that point at all. In fact I wasn’t ragging you at all. 8>)
Okay. When I saw your post, I went back and saw that I had misread the graph.
I’m just saying, “Hey, the blue line is 2016” would have been enough. Or maybe I’m just being thin-skinned.
Bottom line though I guess is as Bush so famously uttered, Mission Accomplished, LOL.
“What reason is there to anticipate that sales will rise in those months of 2017 as they did in 2016?”
Antifa.
Bingo.
Bang list ping.
“Antifa”
Okay, but didn’t the forces of evil promise to burn our cities this summer?
There’s been a bit of trouble here and there, but I don’t think they delivered on their promises. And here it is the end of September already. It feels anticlimactic after what they threatened to do.
Nobody even had to open a spam can—either kind—because of them. And for those reasons, I’m not convinced that there will be a significant jump in firearms sales. YMMV.
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second reason:
FUD.
Every year since 2003 the rate of NCIS checks has gone up.
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