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Data Point – Gun Sales Still Holding High

September 4, 2022 Skip

Yes, gun sales have fallen from their 2020 all time highs but the last two years are nothing to sneer at either. They are still well above any other previous years as measured by NICS (National Instant Criminal Background Check System) requests which most States use when someone purchases a gun (or several guns at … Read more

Guilty Until Proven Innocent: The Time Has Come to Put an End to the NH Gun Line

March 24, 2021 Op-Ed

On Tuesday, March 23, 2021, the Senate Finance Committee heard SB141. To determine the new fiscal¹ note as appropriate or a last-minute attempt to stop the policy adopted by the Senate to eliminate the need for firearms dealers to call the NH gun line when selling a pistol or revolver.

Data Point – Are the Anti-gunners convincing hearts and minds? Hahahahahaha!

December 28, 2020 Skip

Yes, the normal disclaimer is that these are only background checks and not actual guns sales; sometimes a single check can cover a sale of multiple firearms. Still, that rise is pretty assume and we can thank the entire Left for doing so with their tacit approval of all of the riots around the country. … Read more

FBI Erroneously Labels James O’Keefe a Felon in NICS Background Check System

December 22, 2024August 6, 2020 Steve MacDonald

The Federal Bureau of Investigation has a problem and a lawsuit. James O’Keefe who is not a convicted felon has been listed as a felon in NICS and has been denied his Constitutional right to keep and bear arms.

Gun Sales: Thanks to BLM No One is Listening to the Civilian Disarmament Advocacy Groups

July 14, 2020 Skip

They pushed and pushed and SHOVED to make gun stores “non-essential” during the early part of the pandemic. But then the rush to purchase guns became so high that it looked like Obama was back and “selling guns” again.

Watts and Bloomberg Must Be Losing Their Minds: Over 7 Million Guns Sold so far in 2020

May 4, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Democrats wanted more background checks. Well, they got them in March. A record of 3,740,688 were processed. Then came April. It did not beat March, but it keeps things moving with a 71% surge over guns purchased in April 2019 (and) 2.9 million background checks.

Another Obama Legacy Ruined: “Virus” Sells More Guns in a Single Week Than Barry

April 4, 2020 Steve MacDonald

Barack Obama gotta be bumming. First Trump unravels most of his “signature achievements” and now this? “March 16 to March 22 also took top honors in volume for a seven-day period, when nearly 1.2 million NICS checks were performed.

NSSF adjusted NICS 03-20 21 year history

Data Point – Americans rejecting the message of Anti-Gunners

April 2, 2020April 2, 2020 Skip

(reformatted, emphasis mine): The FBI’s March NICS background data for march was released yesterday and it was every bit as horrific as the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex feared it would be. The adjusted background check data quantified what we’ve all seen in the photos of Americans lining up — sometimes for hours — outside of gun … Read more

Data Point – ALL Democrats are now the country’s best gun sales guy?

January 8, 2020 Skip

The surge of gun buying by Americans of all stripes, in all parts to the country continues, and took a big jump last month. As the National Shooting Sports Foundation reports, December 2019 adjusted NICS background check totals — a good indicator of retail gun purchases in the US — increased 15.1 % from a … Read more

Data Point – November NICS data: we’re buying more guns!

December 14, 2019 Skip

And now we can say, once again, THANKS DEMOCRATS! The more you keep talking, especially Beto (who broke the civilian disarmament code of omerta), the more we keep buying. And when you live in Washington State with one infringing law after another, Virginia’s Governor Northam threatening to use the National Guard against Virginia counties declaring … Read more

Data Point – “…to Arm the Marine Corps – Yet Again!”

December 4, 2019 Skip

Americans Bought Enough Guns on Black Friday to Arm the Marine Corps – Yet Again! According to the FBI, over 200,000 background check requests associated with the purchase of a firearm were submitted to the agency on Black Friday, marking the second highest gun sales day ever. The previous record was set on the day … Read more

“ATF Audits reveal 1 in 4 NH Gun Line background checks are wrong

April 28, 2019April 28, 2019

NH House Bill 109 – calling for Universal Background Checks for every purchase of a firearm – will wrongfully deny even more Granite Staters their rights! It is sponsored by NH Democrat Representative Katherine Rogers [yes, the same Democrat Rep who pleaded guilty to assault the day before Christmas 2017]. After Right to Know Requests … Read more

Data Point – See what the Democrats have wrought?

December 27, 2018 Skip

FBI: Record number of illegal immigrants tried to buy guns this year The FBI this year has turned away a record number of illegal immigrants trying to buy guns, according to a new report of background checks. The National Instant Criminal Background Check System said that it rejected 7,836,600 planned purchases from “illegal/unlawful alien” in 2018. And … Read more

DataPoint: Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies

September 26, 2018January 15, 2013 Skip

From my friend Jim Hoft at Gateway Pundit (have to admit, great title – and doesn’t this make Schumer just a tad too late?):

So, what’s the reaction been to the gun grabbers? Lots!

September 26, 2018January 3, 2013 Skip

Once the horror of the tragedy of Sandy Hook set in, the two sets of folks I figured would appear right away, did. The gun grabber group are certainly not letting a crisis / tragedy go to waste – tomorrow, the Chiefest one will be unveiling the details of her legislature tomorrow (via her past … Read more