Posted on 02/15/2022 4:40:43 AM PST by marktwain
The January 2022 National Instant background Check System checks report is out and gun sales have dropped significantly from those in January 2021. In January 2021, the NICS checks were over 4.3 million. In January 2022, they were over 2.0 million. Gun sales fell from over two million in January of 2021 to over 1.15 million in 2022.
In the historical context of NICS numbers, these are still high. January NICS checks did not break 1 million until after the election of President Barack Obama in November of 2008. January 2009 NICS checks were over 1.2 million.
On a quick survey of the market, using the Internet, firearms are becoming more available, and prices have dropped toward suggested retail. Ammunition is becoming somewhat more available, and prices have dropped somewhat.
It appears there have been approximately 12-15 million new gun purchasers generated in the last two years, as estimated by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF).
A person who is a new gun purchaser may not be a new gun owner. Many people are gifted firearms; many become gun owners through inheritance. Some of those are included in the statistics of new gun buyers. Measuring gun ownership by survey has always been difficult.
It seems likely the number of gun owners in the United States is well over 100 million, perhaps as high as 115 million. Legal gun owners, almost by definition, are eligible voters. They are known to be more politically involved than the ordinary eligible voter. 115 million gun owners would be almost half of all eligible voters, estimated at 239 million. In 2022 the number of privately owned firearms in the United States will be
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January 2022 is still the third highest January for gun sales on record.
Gun money has turned into gas money.
Supply, nothing to buy, everything is sold out or back ordered, Ammo too.
Supply is coming back, both guns and ammo. Prices are still high, but supply is returning.
I think demand is down because the pandemic seems to be winding down, the Brandon administration hasn't been able to push any real anti-gun agenda, and people see the mid-term Red Wave coming.
So I think WinMod70 is right, gun money has turned into gas money.
I’m trying as hard as I can, gosh darn it.
“So I think WinMod70 is right, gun money has turned into gas money.”
Yes that too. Related, a buddy has been trying to sell a 4x4 Suburban recently, not going to happen...
Very likely correct, on all points. I was talking to a pawn shop employee a month or so back, and he mentioned they were seeing increasing numbers of people bringing in guns to sell. His impression was that they were folks who had purchased firearms as "insurance", back during the early days of the WuFlu and Antifa/BLM riots. Apparently those people no longer view gun ownership as a priority, and are now willing to sell their "insurance" at a loss...
Gotta love those folks - buyin’ high and sellin’ low.
Eventually, everyone has one... Or three.
At this point everyone’s gun locker is full.
What is the point of buying a gun if one can’t get ammo?
True - although it can happen to anybody, at least occasionally. I've known folks who bought tire chains, because they needed to travel and bad weather was predicted. Some of those chains never came out of the package. And I imagine there will be quite a few "like new, in the box" firearms for sale at pawn shops & gun shops, over the next year or two (IF Crazy Joe doesn't do something to start another panic ;>)...
Meanwhile, Russian SKSs are going for $1,000 in some markets.
Yep, crazy... I bought my first for $160.
I guess they’re still reasonable in Canada. Unless the current situation gets out of hand
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