Gun sales hit a record high for the fifth month in a row

Gun sales hit a record high for the fifth month in a row, The FBI conducted 1,795,102 firearm accomplishments checks through the National Instant Criminal Accomplishments Analysis System (NICS) in September, suggesting gun sales were at an best top that month.

The amount of accomplishments checks represents a new record, up added than 20% from the antecedent September top set in 2012, if 1,459,363 accomplishments checks were conducted.

September is aswell the fifth ages in a row to set a almanac for accomplishments checks. May, June, July, and August all saw almanac numbers.

The amount of checks done in a accurate ages is about apparent as a proxy for how abounding accoutrements were sold. This year abandoned over 15 actor accomplishments checks accept already gone through the NICS, which is added than were conducted in 2010 and every year above-mentioned (NICS began recording numbers of firearm accompanying accomplishments checks in 1998).

The address warns that there is not a one-to-one alternation amid accomplishments checks and firearm sales. There are assorted factors that could skew the numbers.

A alone accomplishments analysis doesn’t represent the amount of accoutrements that were purchased by an individual. According to CNN Money, alone 5 states crave a accomplishments analysis if you acquirement a gun from a clandestine alone at a gun show.

As for why sales are so high, Fortune appear in June that it could possibly be acquired by Obama calling for stricter gun ascendancy laws. As Business Insider’s Sam Ro said, “gunmakers don't account from tighter gun control. They account if there are talks of tighter gun ascendancy but those talks go nowhere.”
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