February 2017 was the third highest month for NICS checks.

Thanks, Obama: A record number of firearms background checks were conducted by the FBI in 2015 equating roughly to 44 checks every minute. The FBI reported Monday that the agency conducted a total of 23,141,970 checks last year, eclipsing the previous record of nearly 21.1 million checks set in 2013. News of the record-setting year […]

Gun production doubled under Obama

Heh

A promotion from employee of the month to employee of the year. From Political

Well, Obama has been gun salesman of the year for 7 years. But if you want to thank someone for the increasing popularity of AR-15s, thank Bill Clinton: When Martin KA Morgan was a kid in the 1970s, military-style rifles were only a small sliver of the firearms market in the United States. Demand was […]

Obama says gun control to be top issue of final year. I guess he hasn’t won enough gun salesman of the year awards.

Obama again gun salesman of the year

Not only Employee of the Month, but Salesman of the Year.

From Michael Bane, comes The Shooting Wire: Democratic insiders are telling us the firearms industry will be used as an object lesson to both sides of the aisle. To the left, it’s the always-popular smackdown of a group of right-wing loonies (that’s you and me, by the way) who want gunfights on the streets of […]

This doesn’t seem to jibe with February being the third best month for NICS checks but Massad Ayoob says the two gun makers are laying people off.

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 […]

The AP: When criminals need guns, they have plenty of options in a country with nearly 100,000 licensed gun stores. But drug dealers and other crooks don’t shop just anywhere. They have their favorites. In Compton, Calif., gangsters preferred Boulevard Sales & Service, a shop police said was so felon-friendly, some salesmen offered tips on […]

A friend of mine since middle school emails: Hey, old man! Sorry I haven’t kept up with you lately. Hope the wife and rugrats are all well. I was reading your blog this-afternoon and thought I would pass on a couple of quick thoughts while I had the time. I’ve met Mr. Ford and Mr. […]

Per this: California authorities worry more powerful firearms will eventually make their way into the state — despite the state’s outlaw on a large number of assault weapons. The state’s ban remains active after a federal ban on 19 types of assault weapons expired this week. But with a thriving underworld gun trade and with […]

Nicholas D. Kristof on the assault weapons ban: President Bush promised in the last presidential campaign to support an extension of the ban, which was put in place in 1994 for 10 years. “It makes no sense for assault weapons to be around our society,” Mr. Bush observed at the time. These days Mr. Bush […]