Quote:In a year marked by coronavirus fears, a slowing economy and nationwide protests calling for an end to systemic racism, more and more Americans are looking to arm themselves, according to a key government indicator.

The FBI reported that Americans set a new record of 3.9 million background checks to purchase or possess firearms in June. That eclipsed the previous record set in March of 3.7 million background checks.

In fact, seven of 1o highest weeks for the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which is run by the FBI and was launched in 1998, have come this year. This includes the first four weeks in June.

Illinois registered the highest number of background checks last month, with 706,404. That state was followed by Kentucky (395,188), Texas (227,232), and Florida (210,415). California rounded out the top five background checks with 158,349.

By comparison, Washington, D.C., had 897 for the month of June, while Hawaii tallied 1,660 background checks and Vermont had 4,920, according to the FBI data.

"Civil unrest, rioting, looting and calls to defund police are unquestionably motivating factors of why this trend is increasing," said Mark Oliva of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, a firearm industry trade association.

"Americans are right to be concerned for their personal safety. It's entirely reasonable that law-abiding citizens are exercising their Constitutional right to purchase a firearm to protect themselves," he said in a written statement to NPR.

NSSF's own figures, which it says are adjusted to reflect the background checks "that are coded for the sale of a firearm" show that June 2020 represented a 135.7% increase compared to June 2019.

Oliva expects that this year will see the highest number of background checks ever recorded.

"For years, the gun lobby has marketed guns using baseless, unwarranted, and exaggerated fear — fear of crime, fear of the government, even fear of a zombie apocalypse," said David Chipman, a senior policy advisor at Giffords, which promotes gun control.

"There is no doubt that this is driving the record-breaking surge in gun sales we've seen over the last few months in this country," he told NPR.

Kris Brown, the president of Brady, which is focused on ending gun violence, said pro-gun groups "have promulgated a fear of uncertainty laced with racist overtones and tropes for years."

"That this occurred during a month where we saw nationwide, peaceful demonstrations against police violence and gun violence inflicted on Black Americans and other people of color in this country cannot go overlooked," Brown said in a statement to NPR.

She added that bringing a firearm into the home does not necessarily make it more secure, and pointed out that unintended shootings claim hundreds of lives annually.

Gun sales do not precisely correspond to the number of background checks. "Multiple guns can be sold in a single check, and many checks are conducted for purposes other than sales, such as permit applications," as The Trace pointed out. The federal government does not track firearms sales, it added, so the FBI's figures provide "the best available proxy for firearms commerce."

The system also does not account for private gun sales, which do not require a background check in some states.

Research from Small Arms Analytics, a firm that studies the economics of small arms and ammunition markets, estimated the FBI's June figures translates into roughly 2.4 million unit sales.

As NPR reported last year, the federal background check system functions much the same way it has when it was first established. When a person wants to purchase a firearm, a federally-licensed gun dealer contacts the system and typically within a few minutes federal investigators begin looking for indicators to approve or deny the purchase.

If additional research needs to be conducted, the purchase can be delayed for up to three business days. If those investigators cannot complete the additional background check within three days, the firearm transfer can go through, in what is known as a "default proceed."

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"She added that bringing a firearm into the home does not necessarily make it more secure, and pointed out that unintended shootings claim hundreds of lives annually."

Unintended shootings?

We could easily end up with over 20 million new gun owners this year, suck on it Brady campaign .

I accounted for 2 of them.

Media members live in media people bubbles where the only voices they hear are like them and where descent is betrayal and must be expunged. They have no idea what goes on in the real world. It's pretty much like a typical college campus environment and it's why they also come to the same erroneous conclusions. You think there were a lot of diverse voices inside the Prinz Albrect Strasse Hotel or the Lubyanka? Hell no! Self feeding bubble.

The problem is new gun owners think buying a gun is all there is to it. Particularly those that didn't grow up with guns.

Training training training.

Practice practice practice.

What worries me is all the 2A gun-rights folks already had guns. And the majority of buys since March have been new gun owners. So now even liberals are arming themselves, lol.

"That this occurred during a month where we saw nationwide, peaceful demonstrations against police violence and gun violence inflicted on Black Americans and other people of color in this country cannot go overlooked,"
Brown said in a statement to NPR.

I don’t know what protests this liberal moron was watching but I saw shooting, burning, rioting and looting in Minneapolis, Louisville, Portland, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles and every city in between.

Only a liberal moron would question why law biding citizens are arming themselves.

(07-16-2020 01:25 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  "That this occurred during a month where we saw nationwide, peaceful demonstrations against police violence and gun violence inflicted on Black Americans and other people of color in this country cannot go overlooked,"
Brown said in a statement to NPR.

I don’t know what protests this liberal moron was watching but I saw shooting, burning, rioting and looting in Minneapolis, Louisville, Portland, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles and every city in between.

Only a liberal moron would question why law biding citizens are arming themselves.

Not possible any of this has to do with any of this "defund the police" stuff, right?

Nope! All racism! /end discussion or suffer the results

We are just getting ready for when the left tries to start a revolution.

(07-16-2020 01:25 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  "That this occurred during a month where we saw nationwide, peaceful demonstrations against police violence and gun violence inflicted on Black Americans and other people of color in this country cannot go overlooked,"
Brown said in a statement to NPR.

I don’t know what protests this liberal moron was watching but I saw shooting, burning, rioting and looting in Minneapolis, Louisville, Portland, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles and every city in between.

Only a liberal moron would question why law biding citizens are arming themselves.

These people are so full of sh!t. The idiots who accept what they say as true have sh!t for brains.

(07-16-2020 01:41 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  We are just getting ready for when the left tries to start a revolution.

Yep. Exactly what is happening. The other issue is that the prog filth will try to take them.

Damn shame all our guns were lost in a boating accident.

(07-16-2020 12:38 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  I accounted for 2 of them.

lightweight...

(07-16-2020 01:54 PM)shere khan Wrote:  

(07-16-2020 01:41 PM)UTSAMarineVet09 Wrote:  We are just getting ready for when the left tries to start a revolution.

Yep. Exactly what is happening. The other issue is that the prog filth will try to take them.

Damn shame all our guns were lost in a boating accident.

Well, it's pissing me off. There are a few guns I had planned on adding to my collection and they are nowhere to be found. The ones you can find are nothing I want and those are through the roof price-wise. Hell, I can't even find build parts or I'd build my own, something I had planned on doing anyway earlier in the year. I shouldn't have waited.

(07-16-2020 01:30 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  

(07-16-2020 01:25 PM)CardinalJim Wrote:  "That this occurred during a month where we saw nationwide, peaceful demonstrations against police violence and gun violence inflicted on Black Americans and other people of color in this country cannot go overlooked,"
Brown said in a statement to NPR.

I don’t know what protests this liberal moron was watching but I saw shooting, burning, rioting and looting in Minneapolis, Louisville, Portland, Seattle, New York, Los Angeles and every city in between.

Only a liberal moron would question why law biding citizens are arming themselves.

Not possible any of this has to do with any of this "defund the police" stuff, right?

Nope! All racism! /end discussion or suffer the results

Yep....it’s racism
White folks just want to get in on killing black folks before they kill each other off. All while screaming Black Lives Matter.