The NRA Is In Denial About The Slowdown In Gun Sales

[JDHasty]

Last week Gun-nut Nation once again celebrated the mistaken belief that gun sales have not slowed down under Trump. Here’s the headline from NRA-ILA: April Background Checks: Strong Numbers Continue. The story then goes on to say:

While some who write headlines for a living may want you to believe we’re in a “funk” in firearms sales since President Obama left the White House, that shortsighted view neglects to consider that April 2017 was the second busiest April ever for NICS and the 21st busiest month of all time. There were only about 100,000 fewer background checks last month than in April 2016.
So here’s the question: Does the NRA staff member who writes this nonsense ever bother to actually look at the data which he so wrongfully describes? Or does he assume that everyone who reads what he writes will take what he says on blind faith? It must be the latter because the statement above gives an impression about the state of the gun industry under #45 which is simply not true. And I don’t mean ‘not true’ in a vague sense as if I’m quibbling over the meaning of a word here or there; I mean ‘not true’ as totally and completely false.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/the-nra-is-in-denial-about-slowing-gun-sales_us_591a0f3de4b07d5f6ba541ee

[BDildine]

My dad said for years "Obama was the best gun salesman"

[Special T]

This is not unique to guns people say there is low unemployment and the economy is healthy. It has everything to do with what numbers you choose to look and and whichbpnes you choose to ignore.

How many states do NICS checks for private sales Now? Are more people unloading expensive guns that were purchased during the shortage and now many are buying on the deals? Since I'm not in the industry I'm not sure how to separate store bought guns from private sales with a NICS check.

How can you not buy an AR or other rifle that was expensive and non existent new, and now you can by basic ARs or AKs for less than $500 ? At some point the market will be saturated but I doubt we are there   

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[pianoman9701]

Motley Fool, the yahoo market columnist, wrote an article last week - Why Is the Market Ignoring the Fact That Gun Sales Are Booming?

[konradcountry]

I think it would be great if gun sales slowed down. A glut of supply will reduce prices.

The gun market is cyclical. If the anti-gun crowd takes a low point as a win then that just shows how clueless they are.

[Oh Mah]

I could see the market for guns slowing down a little,i meen come on everyone bought while Obama was in and for fear of the media being right and the witch won everyone stocked up on what they wanted. 

[Bigshooter]

What kind of people read the huffington post?

[Lucky1]

Reading the article I got the feeling that the writer is a lefty liberal with a agenda to discredit the NRA. Gun sales whether new or used are still gun sales.

Yea, I wouldn't read Huffington Post articles with out a good deal of skepticism.