The Obama administration’s pro-gun control stance has done nothing but make the gun culture stronger and cause firearms arms to fly off gun store shelves. As PlanetFreeWill’s Joseph Jankowski notes, 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… And 2016 is on pace to surpass last year’s record.
In the wake of the Orlando shooting, we noted that guns were flying off the shelves at gun stores. While many believe that shootings drive up gun sales, Tom Engle, the owner of Hunter’s Warehouse (the online gun store which sold 30,000 AR-15s in just one week after Orlando) has another viewpoint on that topic.
“Shootings don’t push up gun sales. It’s when the government starts talking about banning particular guns and up go gun sales. When people lose their right to buy a particular gun or a particular type of gun, they go after them and they want them then.“
With that said, using FBI background checks for guns as a proxy for gun sales, the Washington Examiner is reporting that gun sales in 2016 are on pace to shatter last year’s record of more than 23 million. Furthermore, under President Obama, background checks for guns reached 141.4 million through the end of May, amounting to about 52,600 a day.
Keep talkin’, o’shitbag. The more guns that are sold, the safer I feel.