Don’t tell Bryan Miller but: According to FBI figures for the week of November 3 to 9, the bureau received more than 374,000 requests for background checks on gun purchasers — a nearly 49 percent increase over the same period in 2007. Conatser said his store, Virginia Arms Company, has run out of some models […]

In Tennessee: During the week beginning last Monday, Nov. 3, 2008, and ending yesterday, Nov. 9, 2008, 8,525 firearm transactions were handled by TICS. Saturday, Nov. 8th was a peak day, with 2,524 transactions. This was unprecedented for November. Only one other day since TICS opened on Nov. 1, 1998 has surpassed last Saturday in […]

Rich is getting a new one. Carnaby has a new one.

We know Bryan Miller says that the reported increase in gun sales is a conspiracy propagated by the evil gun lobby. Looks like those evil Wall Street analysts are in on the conspiracy too. And I’m sure the FBI is also lying when it reports an increase in NICS activity. And based on Cabela’s numbers, […]

Ridefast makes a good point. Remember how the press kept trying to tell us Obama wasn’t really anti-gun and we had nothing to worry about? Well, now that they’re reporting on gun sales increases (which, according to the deluded, is just propaganda from the gun lobby) they have to admit Obama may not be so […]

Denver Post: Obama’s record on firearms triggers run on sales in state […] By midday Wednesday, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation’s “Insta- Check” background check — required for the sale of a firearm and typically about 8 minutes long — was jammed with waits lasting more than two hours. […] Across Colorado, gun shops reported […]

More reports of the trend.

In Tennessee: Gun stores are doing big business these days despite the sluggish economy. Sales may be slow for some retailers but there are two reasons why the registers have been ringing at gun stores. “I have personally never seen it like it has been this year,” said Larry Baity at Gun City USA in […]

That’s the headline. Seems steady should be steadily increasing.

NSSF notes an increase in the amount of firearm excise taxes paid. And S&W reports a good quarter. Sales up among women. As discussed at the Para Blogger Event, even though women are the fastest growing demographic, their piece of the overall firearms pie is pretty small. We need more chicks and guns.

If we’re in a recession, why are people buying all those guns?

A continuing trend: Industry Sales Up 36 Percent in Second Quarter EXCISE TAX CONTRIBUTIONS TOP $3 BILLION . . . The latest report of Firearms and Ammunition Excise Tax Collections released by the Department of the Treasury indicates that firearm and ammunition manufacturers paid more than $76.6 million in the second calendar quarter, up 36 […]

Could just be the increased ammo prices.

Well, all those guns the manufacturers are making have to go somewhere.

The CT Post: Americans spent more than $2 billion on guns and ammunition in 2005, showing the nation’s fascination with firearms is not fading despite concerns raised by gun-control advocates. The Newtown-based National Shooting Sports Foundation on Monday touted a U.S. Department of Treasury report that said sales of firearms and ammunition increased by 2.6 […]

Not only in Iraq, but here in the states too: Since the Sept. 11 terror attacks and especially since Hurricane Katrina, Americans are taking pro-gun positions. Both events underscored the ease with which civil order can collapse, and have renewed people’s interest in home security. Democrats have been getting the message that gun control is […]

In Iraq.

I predicted gun sales would go up after Katrina and early indications supported that. Now, there’s this: Smith & Wesson Holding Corp. has reported that fiscal first-quarter sales rose and profits were boosted by a reduction in allowances for environmental contamination at a Springfield property. The company said after the markets closed yesterday that it […]

From the NSSF

Clip or magazine jokes aside No, the paper kind. Seems like sales of those are up too.

The Executive Holster on sale for $75. Knives and More having a sale this weekend too. Black Rifle Friday at Brownells

NSSF tells us that firearms excise taxes took in $109.8M this quarter, up 43%.

A good letter to the editor refuting gun controllers.

In Kansas: “Usually summers in the gun business are deader than a doornail, but we’re having a record year,” said Jeff Howlett, owner of Kansas Firearms Specialties in Tonganoxie. Much of the increased interest in guns is because people are arming themselves to take advantage of the new Kansas concealed carry gun law, Howlett said. […]

UC Davis: A study of firearm homicide and suicide rates in the 10 years after California simultaneously mandated comprehensive background checks for nearly all firearm sales and a prohibition on gun purchase and possession for persons convicted of most violent misdemeanor crimes found no change in the rates of either cause of death from firearms […]

Bloomberg: Why Gunmakers Would Rather Sell AR-15s Than Handguns I found this particularly interesting: For every 100 newly manufactured guns sold in America, according to industry estimates, as many as 35 are modern sporting rifles that are variants of the AR-15. But that portion of the market accounts for a disproportionate amount of gun-industry profits.

Under Barack Obama, handgun production went up 192%. Gun salesman of the century.

From The Hill: The Trump administrations expected plan to transfer the licensing of gun exports from the State Department to the Commerce Department has Democratic lawmakers and foreign policy advocates readying for a fight. The proposal under review by the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) has yet to be made public, […]

CNN is breathlessly reporting that Trump is bad for the gun industry. The requisite fear that made Obama the gun salesman of the century is no longer there. And a higher up at ATF is coming out against some gun laws and regulations. So, the administration is viewed as pro gun. And, reports CNN, sales […]

Again. Still.