Gun Sales

Americans underwent over 200,000 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks, portending the purchase of enough guns to arm every active duty Marine.

Walmart has quietly instructed employees to remove any signage or displays that “contain violent themes or aggressive behavior.”

The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries has ruled that retailers in the state must sell long guns to 18-year-olds who wish to purchase them and have no criminal record to prevent the purchase.

Banks and credit card companies are exploring ways to detect when their customers are purchasing firearms and/or firearm accessories.

Gun control proponent David Hogg is pushing a boycott of mutual fund companies invested in firearm manufacturer stocks.

Wells Fargo stemmed the tide of the push for new financial restrictions on gun makers and sellers by stressing that it is not a bank’s job to set U.S. gun policy.

Kroger subsidiary Fred Meyer announced they will no longer sell firearms and ammunition. The superstore has been selling guns and ammo at roughly 45 stores in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska.

Kroger announced Thursday that it will not longer sell firearms or ammunition to persons under 21 years of age.

FBI stats show Black Friday 2017 shattered the single-day background check record by logging over 200,000 checks.

Amid all the establishment media chatter about a “Trump Slump” in gun sales, National Shooting Sports Foundation’s (NSSF) Mike Bazinet says the evidence indicates 2017 could be the second or third highest year for background checks in the past two decades.

The first six months of 2017 witnessed the second largest number of firearm background checks ever recorded for the first half of a given year, according to the FBI.

Dan Savage said the right in politics is only talking of the violence of the left because it needs a way to re-energize gun sales.

Months after the 19-month streak of record-breaking background checks came to an end, the number of background checks for April 2017 reached near-record levels.

The election of President Trump – coupled with Republican control of the House and Senate – shows that “Democrats are good for gun sales.”

Gun sales fell below record levels since Donald Trump was elected president, but the Washington Post reports they are still rising among minorities who are scared of Trump’s administration.

Since the November 8, 2016 election of Donald Trump, the Dow Jones has surged — but the prices of gun stocks have fallen.

Newly-released FBI figures show that the number of background checks conducted for gun purchasers in 2016 were so high they actually beat the previous annual record by more than 4 million.

As gun sales have skyrocketed over the past 19 months, ammunition sales have also surged, with “17,850 tons” of imported ammunition being sold in the past 12 months.

Already, more background checks for firearm purchases have been conducted in 2016 than any year in history.

The number of background checks for gun purchases performed on Black Friday 2016 broke the record for Black Friday background checks as well as the overall single day record.

Background checks indicate retail gun sales have been on a record pace for the past 18 months, and gun store owners say women are a driving force behind the surging sales.

Sales of AR-15s and the earnings of Sturm, Ruger and Co. have something in common during the last portion of the current presidential election cycle: both are skyrocketing.

The previous record was 1,976,759 background checks, set in October 2015, but the latest FBI figures show 2,333,539 checks were performed in October 2016. That is an increase of 356,780 background checks.

The latest figures from the FBI show that August was the 16th consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales.

Gun sales in California are on pace to break records — perhaps even to reach 1 million sales by the end of calendar year 2016, according to Southern California Public Radio station KPCC.

The previous July record was set in 2015, when there were 1,600,832 background checks. But the FBI reports that July 2016 there were 2,197,169–an increase of nearly 600,000 checks.

New FBI figures show June 2016 is the 14th consecutive month of record background checks for gun sales.

Hunter’s Warehouse says it sold 30,000 AR-15s during the first seven days following the Orlando, Florida, terrorist attack.

FBI figures show that May 2016 was the thirteenth consecutive month of record background checks for retail gun sales.

Gun sales in California are surging and on track to equal–if not surpass–the record number of guns sold during 2015.