{"id":56416,"date":"2020-06-27T13:09:42","date_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56416"},"modified":"2020-06-27T13:09:42","modified_gmt":"2020-06-27T18:09:42","slug":"56416","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56416","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder why&#8230;&#8230;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2020\/06\/26\/report-gun-sales-surging-in-minnesota\/\">Report: Gun Sales Surging in Minnesota<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The trifecta of coronavirus fears, George Floyd protests, and the push to defund the police has resulted in surging gun sales in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>CBS 4 reports it all began with fears of virus-related civil unrest leading to record background checks for gun sales in March 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The number of background checks conducted in Minnesota in March represented a 20-year high.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the May 25 death of George Floyd and the subsequent riots, after which Frontiersman Sports owner Kory Krouse said the demand for guns went through the roof.<\/p>\n<p>Krouse said, \u201cPeople are really scared coming in here. We had a three, four hour wait just to get up to the counter during the height of \u2026 the rioting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As a result of the surge, gun store inventories are down and ammunition is scarce.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>On June 12, 2020, Breitbart News reported the Minneapolis city council unanimously passed a pledge to defund their city\u2019s police department.<\/p>\n<p>On June 24, 2020, Breitbart News reported gun and ammo sales were surging nationwide in the wake of the push to defund the police.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder why&#8230;&#8230;. Report: Gun Sales Surging in Minnesota The trifecta of coronavirus fears, George Floyd protests, and the push to defund the police has resulted in surging gun sales in Minnesota. CBS 4 reports it all began with fears of virus-related civil unrest leading to record background checks for gun sales in March 2020. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=56416\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=56416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56417,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56416\/revisions\/56417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=56416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=56416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=56416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}