The nation’s gun-buying binge remained robust last month amid the Biden administration’s latest plans to cut sales and intimidate customers.
The FBI said it conducted 2,336,390 checks through its National Instant Criminal Background Check System. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the industry trade group, said that included an estimated 1,343,478 specifically for gun sales.
February was the 55th consecutive month that gun sales approved by the FBI exceeded 1 million. NSSF said the number was likely higher since the FBI count does not include all other legal pathways to obtaining a firearm.
The record-breaking sales were in part a reaction to President Joe Biden’s efforts to tighten gun control, NSSF spokesman Mark Oliva said.
“A simple offer to sell a gun could be enough to trigger a criminal prosecution if the rule is finalized and enforced, as would
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