{"id":59199,"date":"2020-09-04T20:28:14","date_gmt":"2020-09-05T01:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=59199"},"modified":"2020-09-04T20:28:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-05T01:28:14","slug":"59199","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=59199","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Gun Control Activists Try To Spin August\u2019s Record High Gun Sales<\/a><\/p>\n

Since March, we\u2019ve seen a new monthly record for NICS checks set every four weeks or so, and on Monday, when the FBI released its background check numbers for August, the trend continued. The 3.1 million checks\u00a0performed by the FBI<\/a>\u00a0in August was down from July\u2019s total of 3.6 million, but still set a new record for the month.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re a gun control activist, how on earth do you spin these numbers? The National Shooting Sports Foundation estimates that more than 5-million Americans have become gun owners this year, demand is sky high, and there are also hundreds of thousands of Americans who\u2019d like to join in the gun-buying frenzy but can\u2019t because of\u00a0long delays<\/a>\u00a0with gun licensing in several anti-gun states.<\/p>\n

Everytown for Gun Safety\u00a0tried their best<\/a>\u00a0to put a doom-and-gloom spin on the background check numbers, claiming that the polls are still on their side.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith protestors being shot in the streets and gun violence on the rise, more guns is not the recipe for public safety,\u201d said\u00a0Nick Suplina, managing director of law and policy at Everytown for Gun Safety.\u00a0\u201cFortunately, polls show this jump in sales leads more Americans to support common sense gun safety laws, which is bad news for every 2020 candidate who is still taking orders from the gun lobby, starting with President Trump.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Polls show more Americans support gun control than they did a few months ago? Not according to this\u00a0Rasmussen Poll<\/a>\u00a0from mid-August, which shows support for new gun laws cratering. Last August, Rasmussen found nearly 2\/3rds of poll respondents agreed with the idea that more gun laws are needed. This August it had dropped 12 points to 54%. Still a majority, but a bare one, and the numbers are falling fast.<\/p>\n

\u201cGun sales have been surging since the pandemic began, so it\u2019s impossible to identify the exact reason for this month\u2019s sales,\u201d said Rob Wilcox, deputy director of policy and strategy at Everytown. \u201cBut it is clear that President Trump and gun companies are recklessly fear mongering every day, which is dangerous and wrong at a time when the threat of gun violence is on the rise and hospitals are overflowing with patients.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, I think we know why gun sales are still at record highs. Increasing amounts of political violence for one. When you\u2019ve got mobs destroying businesses and threatening people\u2019s lives, it tends to make folks think a little more about their own personal safety.<\/p>\n

Then there\u2019s the rise in violent crime in cities across the country, with shootings and homicides soaring in cities like New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Portland, and many others. It\u2019s not fear mongering to point that out, and it\u2019s deliciously ironic that Everytown\u2019s Wilcox engages in some fear mongering of his own by claiming that hospitals are \u201coverflowing with patients.\u201d Where exactly is\u00a0that<\/em>\u00a0happening at the moment? We\u2019re actually seeing the opposite right now, with\u00a0hospitals reporting<\/a>\u00a0improved capacity compared to the past few months.<\/p>\n

For an organization that claims to have no issue with the Second Amendment, Everytown really seems to have a problem with Americans exercising their right to keep and bear arms. Though the group is supposedly all about \u201cgun safety\u201d instead of gun control, Everytown\u2019s press release on the August NICS numbers doesn\u2019t even mention firearms training, just hand-wringing over the idea that millions of new gun owners have embraced their Second Amendment rights.<\/p>\n

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Gun Control Activists Try To Spin August\u2019s Record High Gun Sales Since March, we\u2019ve seen a new monthly record for NICS checks set every four weeks or so, and on Monday, when the FBI released its background check numbers for August, the trend continued. The 3.1 million checks\u00a0performed by the FBI\u00a0in August was down from … Continue reading “”<\/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-59199","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\/59199","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=59199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59200,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59199\/revisions\/59200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}