In a remarkably strong showing, the FBI’s National Instant Background Check System (NICS) reportedly processed more than 687,000 background checks during “Black Friday” week, including more than 26,000 on Thanksgiving Day, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. Total for the week leading up to what has traditionally been called “Black Friday,” the day after […]
Shock Poll: Texans Stocking Up on Guns, Half ‘Favor’ Biden
Fifty-one percent of recent first-time gun buyers in Texas favor former Democrat Vice President Joe Biden over Republican President Donald Trump in a poll released days ago by the Dallas Morning News and University of Texas at Tyler. “Most of the people who bought their first gun this summer bought it in the past two […]
On Background: Raw NICS Numbers for 2019 Set Record
Background checks initiated with the National Instant Check System (NICS) in 2019 set a new record and one of the nation’s leading gun rights advocates gives credit to the political party that ironically seems determined to prevent such sales. Quoted by the Washington Times, Alan Gottlieb, founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment […]
Anti-gun Group Pressures Banks to Back Gun Control
An anti-gun group is pressuring financial institutions to limit financial dealings with gun makers and rights groups. (Dave Workman) The New York Times has reported on a tactic now being used by a gun control group calling itself Guns Down America that pressures banking institutions into withholding financial support of gun makers, rights group and […]
March NICS Checks Spiked, SAF Blames ‘Gun Control Hysteria’
A spike in the number of initiated background checks in March via the FBI’s National Instant Check System (NICS) reflects a significant increase in the number of people apparently interested in buying guns, and a major gun rights organization is crediting the wave of gun control hysteria following the shooting tragedy at a Florida high […]
Gun Sales Slump No Cause for Anti-Gunners to Smile
Anti-gunners who voted for Hillary Rodham Clinton expecting her to hammer the Second Amendment community should be rejoicing that their candidate lost and Donald Trump is in the Oval Office. After all, that’s sort of the message one takes away from a Fortune article that reported Monday a sales slump in firearms, and gave […]