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Gun Control & RKBA

beevul

(12,194 posts) Mon Jun 6, 2016, 04:20 PM Jun 2016

Record Gun Sales Continue Through May

Record Gun Sales Continue Through May

Thirteen straight months of gun sales records

BY: Stephen Gutowski

June 6, 2016 1:10 pm

The month of May saw yet another gun-related background check record making it the 13th month to see an all time high.

The FBI completed a record 1,870,000 checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, this May, according to an agency report. That’s almost 300,000 more checks than May of 2015, which set a record at the time.

It is also nearly a million more checks than May 2008.

May was also the first month in 2016 that did not break two million checks as the gun industry enters a seasonal lull in sales. The numbers remain on pace to set another yearly record, however.

http://freebeacon.com/issues/record-gun-sales-continue-may/#

It must be the same 20 million or so people buying guns over and over, right?

Discuss.

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Record Gun Sales Continue Through May (Original Post) beevul Jun 2016 OP

More guns and fewer jobs, this is not a good combination Warpy Jun 2016 #1

I'll just take a wild ass guess that the shooters near you didn't get NICS checks last month. DonP Jun 2016 #2

Follow the case and see what happens to the felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm charge. Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #5

It'll go away, it always does Warpy Jun 2016 #6

Bought an AR-10 upper Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #3

Discuss? Well..........alright! pablo_marmol Jun 2016 #4

Kick because some folks obviously missed it. N/T beevul Jun 2016 #7

This chart is interesting...highly repeatable annual cycle, and the constant trend upwards over-all jmg257 Jun 2016 #8

I did my part. oneshooter Jun 2016 #9

Warpy

(113,130 posts)

1. More guns and fewer jobs, this is not a good combination

Reply to beevul (Original post)

Mon Jun 6, 2016, 04:59 PM

Jun 2016

Meanwhile, there was a shootout a few blocks away from me yesterday and I missed driving through the crossfire by about half an hour.

I'm sick of this shit. Something has to be done to make gun ownership less attractive to morons.

http://www.koat.com/news/albuquerque-police-investigate-shootings/39911494

DonP

(6,185 posts)

2. I'll just take a wild ass guess that the shooters near you didn't get NICS checks last month.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Mon Jun 6, 2016, 05:29 PM

Jun 2016

How about as a start, making the 10 years sentence for an illegal gun buy or use in a felony a sentencing minimum?

No plea bargains on gun charges, no time off for good behavior or signing up for a drug treatment program?

If they had, Hadiya Pendleton would be alive today and so would a lot of other people here in Chicago.

Eleanors38

(18,318 posts)

5. Follow the case and see what happens to the felon-in-possession-of-a-firearm charge.

Reply to Warpy (Reply #1)

Tue Jun 7, 2016, 01:58 PM

Jun 2016

If there is one.

Warpy

(113,130 posts)

6. It'll go away, it always does

Reply to Eleanors38 (Reply #5)

Tue Jun 7, 2016, 02:00 PM

Jun 2016

One guy dropped his gun on the street. He's not likely to get it back, so that's progress, I guess.

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)

3. Bought an AR-10 upper

Reply to beevul (Original post)

Mon Jun 6, 2016, 06:34 PM

Jun 2016

No NICS reqiired

pablo_marmol

(2,375 posts)

4. Discuss? Well..........alright!

Reply to beevul (Original post)

Tue Jun 7, 2016, 01:55 AM

Jun 2016

BLOOD WILL RUN IN THE STREETS!!!

Oh........wait. Nevermind. But ---

The tide WILL turn! Fuckin' gun humpers. Fuck the NRA.

Now I feel better. Night all.

beevul

(12,194 posts)

7. Kick because some folks obviously missed it. N/T

Reply to beevul (Original post)

Fri Jun 10, 2016, 12:10 PM

Jun 2016

jmg257

(11,996 posts)

8. This chart is interesting...highly repeatable annual cycle, and the constant trend upwards over-all

Reply to beevul (Original post)

Fri Jun 10, 2016, 12:30 PM

Jun 2016

https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf

Also curious that "300million estimated guns in the US" has been quoted for so long now, yet there are over 100 million background checks the last 5 years alone.

oneshooter

(8,614 posts)

9. I did my part.

Reply to beevul (Original post)

Fri Jun 10, 2016, 06:33 PM

Jun 2016

Ruger 556. However my purchase did not show up on thei list as no phone call was made.

Texas LTC

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