2016 could see more gun sales than any year on record

By Tré Goins-Phillips

Despite countless efforts by politicians of all stripes to suppress access to guns in the U.S., there were more firearm-related background checks conducted by the FBI in 2016 than in any other year in history, which could indicate more gun sales than ever before.

Following record-setting sales in November, the bureau’s National Instant Background Check System (NICS) processed a total of 24,767,514 background checks over the past year, pushing the number more than 160,000 above the last yearly record, which was set in 2015.

“Reports of the industry’s demise were greatly exaggerated by the liberal anti-gun media,” Larry Keane, senior vice president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation, told the Free Beacon.

News of the all-time high yearly record comes after a chart-topping month in November, when the NICS processed an impressive 2,561,281 background checks, which is nearly 320,000 more than the previous record set in November 2015.

The boom in gun sales toward the end of the year is not a new phenomenon. In fact, the holiday upswing is expected to extend into December, which historically outperforms every other month of the year when it comes to NICS checks.

However, while counting the total NICS checks is the most accurate …Read the Rest

Source:: The Blaze