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The National Shooting Sports Foundation® (NSSF®), Project ChildSafe® and the National African American Gun Association (NAAGA) are responding to record high gun sales in 2020, particularly among African Americans and first-time gun buyers, by providing free educational resources and tips on firearm safety and responsible storage for all new gun owners. According to data from the National...

Original Story from USA Today U.S. gun sales in January surged 60% to 4,137,480. This makes it the largest single month since figures started to be recorded in 1998. The rise is part of a trend. Gun sales in the United States rose 40% last year to 39,695,315. The figure also represents the high-water mark...

While gun sales have sky-rocketed throughout the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many have taken interest in the growing rate of firearm purchases by women. Robyn Sandoval gives us a deep look into this below. Why Are Women Buying Guns? Article Written by Robyn Sandoval / On “A Girl & A Gun Women’s Shooting League“...

As new NSSF® research reveals, millions of first-time gun buyers decided to purchase their very first firearm during COVID-19. January 2020 started out with a strong SHOT Show®, followed by buzz surrounding background check figures on firearms with NSSF-adjusted NICS data showing year-over-year increases of 19 percent in January and 17 percent in February. Mid-March...

As reported by the Washington Examiner: Gun sales maintained a record pace for a second straight month as people in the United States rushed to arm up amid safety concerns over the growing coronavirus pandemic and the likely nomination by Democrats of the most anti-gun ticket in history. As in March, when the sweep of...

Across the United States, long lines greet customers prepping for the pandemic at gun shops and sporting goods stores. Even in staunchly anti-gun utopias like Southern California, stores are packed with people that have descended like locusts, devouring everything in their wake. It’s a scene that plays itself out every time there’s some sort of...

Dick’s Sporting Goods has announced plans to remove the hunting departments from “approximately” 440 additional locations, following a similar — albeit much smaller — effort last year. In a press release issued Tuesday along with the company’s fourth-quarter earnings report, Dick’s confirmed that it would be removing the hunting departments sometime “in fiscal 2020,” though there was...

Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) estimates February 2020 U.S. firearms sales at 1,357,643 units, a year-over-year increase of 17.3% from February 2019. Likely single handgun sales (793,301) increased year-over-year by 19.5% whereas single long-gun sales (441,516) increased year-over-year by 12.4%. All other likely background check-related sales (122,826) increased year-over-year by 22.1%. This includes so-called...

The FBI ran the second-highest number of gun background checks on Black Friday 2019, which is an 11 percent increase from the previous year and an indication that firearm sales are on the rise, officials said. The agency conducted 202,465 gun background checks on Nov. 29, 2019, which is the second-highest number seen since the bureau implemented the checks in 1998. This...

Last February, when Dick’s Sporting Goods CEO Ed Stack announced he was restricting gun sales at the country’s largest sports retailer, he knew it’d be costly. At the time, Dick’s was a major seller of firearms. Guns also drove the sale of soft goods—boots, hats, jackets. Plus, Stack suspected the position could drive off some...