Gun sales are on a pace to break last year's record of more than 23 million, a boon to the U.S. industry and gun stores thanks to election-year worries about gun control and recent terror attacks, according to government figures and experts.

Under Obama, background checks for guns reached 141.4 million through the end of May, amounting to sales of about 52,600 a day, according to the FBI. Last year, the FBI conducted more than 23 million background checks, which are generally used to figure sales of new and used weapons.

Domestically, manufacturers have reported producing about 21,000 guns a day, or more than 46 million in Obama's first six years in office.

And should Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton continue to best Republican Donald Trump in the polls, sales could hit new highs, according to industry experts.

This gives me a warm fuzzy.....

I did my best, ammo too

I got an ass load of primers and powder.

add to the stated background checks those that have CCL'S and don't have to be checked, the total is higher

Personally, I think their numbers are way off. All they counted were background checks.

You can purchase more than one with a single check!!!!

It doesn't matter how I know that.

Not only that, but the background checks are the NICS system which is only being used in 26 states last time I checked.

be AFAWIED Hitlery, be very afawIed!

must be a state to state option....here in Florida, you get checked either way....the ccl does let you skip the 3 day wait on handguns however....

All those new sales were to people of voting age, and some politicians remember what happened in the mid term elections of Clinton's first term.

I hope these numbers triple by election day

NICS checks are used by all 50 states since ALL FFL dealers have to use it.

But in states where there is a firearm permit, the NICS check is only run once when the permit is acquired and not per gun purchase.

And in states where a concealed carry permit suffices for a NICS check, there is no NICS check for each gun purchase.

So those numbers are significantly low.. how many concealed carry people are there now compared to 8 years ago? And how many concealed carry permit holders have bought only 1 firearm in the last 8 years?

That also doesn't cover used gun sales in the majority of states which don't required FFL transfer for private sales.

Thing to do is try to confiscate all those millions of guns. Nevermind that making guns illega will make their value skyrocket overnight. People will give them up anyway.

And it seems the Democrats are seemingly going to make gun control a very central part of their 2016 campaign - much more so than in any previous election cycle.

The dems changed it from gun control to gun safety... Watch out for that one ...

I'm not sure they can make guns that fast.

In Idaho, if you have a CCL they don't call in the nics check.

Beware of unintended consequences. Such as this new crowd muckin up the pool.

What's that sweet music I hear?? Oh, yeah, it's the gnashing of democrats' teeth upon hearing that news...

NICS check numbers are way high if being considered as new guns only... used guns get NICS checks just like new...

Are the shelves stripped bare of AR's?

Went by Cabela's today to pick up something else and noticed their shelves still had lots of AR's, even some on the used racks. Only one person at the counter and she was buying a pistol. Also had the best selection of powder and primers on the shelf that I've ever seen in there. Got some CCI small rifle primers that were on sale for $27/thousand. Pretty good price, especially for Cabela's.

Outstanding news. Couple years ago I was in court with an elderly judge who had been appointed to handle a case. He brought four of his retired blue-haired friends with him---couple older gals and guys. Presumably, all had artificial hips and pace makers. What was cool though (and the point of this post) is that all of them (including the elderly judge) had just a few days earlier gone out and bought AR-15s!! They were stoked about taking delivery and going out to shoor their new rifles.

The AR is the modern equivalent of a Winchester 30-30 lever gun.

Jordan

in 8 years Sturm Ruger stock has risen from $7.50 a share to $63+

Not unless they are sold by an FFL in most states.

There's no limit to the number of guns that can be transferred with just one NICS call

NICS numbers are always lower than actual sales

i'm doing my part. love them obama gun sales.

Electoral suicide.... short memory, there.

And don't forget the "gunshow loophole" where anyone can buy a gun without a check even if the seller is an FFL holder...least that's what the gun grabbers tell me.....

Almost all GunBroker trades go through an FFL and have a huge percentage of used guns. Used gun sales do not add to the number of firearms in existance... Virtually all new guns involve a NICS check...

Hell, I know some left wing gun grabbers who actually believe you can buy machine guns through the mail.

They're out there and they vote, too.

L.W.

It's the LGBT crowd.....

LGBTs just got a reality slap.

Before it was just dirty looks, and occasional battery.

Obama is a "Keynesian" demand side proponent and he doesn't even know it.

Carp! California is going to try and collect a lot of them after the next election. here is step one(? Or is it step twelve? I've lost count of how many slices of our rights have been cut off by the other side):

https://www.nraila.org/articles/201...ative-will-flatten-california-gun-owners

Best data I have seen has about 9/10 of NICs checks are new guns in circulation.

EXAMPLE:

My CHL permit requires a check, but I have bought 2 stripped lowers on another.

But some are for interstate sales of used guns (I bought a Savage 99 that way).

Then I renewed the CHL and that was another Check.

So I have about 20 NICS check for 18 new guns.

No one claimed used guns add to the total of fire arms.

Many states allow those with a CCW to bypass the NICS check completely.

No matter how you try to spin things your way, reality is sales of new guns have been breaking records most years for over a decade

For the past 8 years there has been an average of over 3.44 million new guns produced each year, and the majority of those guns have been sold

http://www.statisticbrain.com/firearm-industry-statistics/