Image courtesy Dean Weingarten Posted on 09/11/2020 4:41:22 AM PDT by marktwain
The National Instant background Checks System (NICS) numbers are in for August of 2020. As expected, they are another record. Every month so far in 2020 has been a record month for NICS.
August is a record both for the background checks and for firearm sales. In August, gun sales were a bit less than 54% of the total NICS numbers. The total NICS checks were 3,115,063, but many of those are for permits and permit rechecks.
According to our formula of handgun sales + long gun sales + other gun sales + 2.5 x multiple guns on one NICS check sales, there were 1,669,115 gun sales on the NICS system in August of 2020.
Image courtesy Dean Weingarten
That number is the highest number of gun sales in any August on record in NICS. It brings the total of gun sales in the NICS system in 2020 to over 13.5 million firearms sold in the first eight months of 2020. The sales are trending to reach 21 million sales by the end of the year, a record far surpassing the 16.26 million guns added to the private stock in 2016, the previous record.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has estimated that 40% of the sales in 2020 are to new gun owners. That translates into more than five million new gun owners so far, and more than eight million new gun owners by the rest of the year.
We can only produce and sell this level of firearms because of the run-up in gun manufacturing and ammunition manufacturing which occurred under President Barack Obama.
He was the greatest gun salesman, ever – until the present.
According to my calculations, 97.206 million guns were sold from 2009 through 2016, inclusive.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
If the trend keeps up through the end of the year, there will be 21 million more guns and 8 million more gun owners by January 1, 2021, than there were as of 1 January, 2020.
Do purchases in the backs of Italian barber shops count?
Not asking for me.
----we can hope and if we know any of the "new" gun owners try and educate them--I'm working on a couple of families now--
Geez. Try finding a Sig P320X-C. There must be one on display at the Louvre.
I want to purchase a Kel-Tec P17. For a brief period, approximately the month of February, 2020, they were available at retail for about $150.
Now, if you can find one, they go for about $300.
Bad for the consumer. Great for the folks that produce our shootin' stuff.
” Ammo is non existent. “
I found some yesterday. Sportsman’s only had 10MM left. Murdoch’s ranch supply had self defense rounds but very little in the way of ball. Lots of hunting ammo though.
“and 8 million more gun owners by January 1, 2021, than there were as of 1 January, 2020. “
yet another positive factor for trump’s re-election: i can’t imagine that these 8 million new gun owners are going to be eager to vote for a gun-grabber like biden and the Dems ...
Agree....having crossed that political Rubicon to defend themselves and family against the likes of BLM, Antifa, and those flash mobs of youts, not likely they give them up. Bonus points to the newbies for under going the NICS background checks and local impediments if the light bulb goes on and they realize it's not so easy to obtain firearms....urban myths collapsing....if the PTB lied about firearms what else are they lying about?
I'm going to purchase an M1 Garand, something I've wanted since I fired one almost 40 years ago.
Being an amateur WWII historian, it would be fitting to have the rifle that General George Patton stated as “In my opinion, the M1 rifle is the greatest battle implement ever devised.”
I won't buy any ammunition for it until I have learned each and every part and piece of the rifle, how to properly maintain the weapon, and have re-taken an NRA Rifle Safety Course.
Garands are rather pricey.
I figure I’ll be spending about $2,000 +/- on the rifle.
I have some money saved for a rainy day, and it looks like rain.
I was surprised the ammunition costs so much! All I can think of is BANG (ka-ching) BANG (ka-ching) BANG (ka-ching).
But a bucket list is a bucket list. No arguing with a bucket list.
The local (Oregon coast) BiMart had a number of 9mms for sale, last Tuesday. Regular prices. A bunch of SCCYs, a Hi-Point, and one of those Altor abominations. Nothing I’d want, but they we’re there. No ammo, though.
A Garand,,,,Yes!
Or,
What That Rifle
Might have been;
M1A.
Primers which went for 30 bucks a box are now selling for 200 bucks in some instances.
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