“What reason is there to anticipate that sales will rise in those months of 2017 as they did in 2016?”
Antifa.
Bingo.
“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.