SHOCKER: Mainstream Media Pushes False Analysis of Gun Sales

By Rachel Lawrence

Much to the chagrin of the mainstream media, a new NSSF study has found that gun industry sales are not decreasing after the election of Donald Trump as POTUS. In fact, the NSSF study has found that sales in March of 2017 were higher than sales in March of 2016. This, despite the rhetoric that many in the media have been pushing which seems to be centered around two points. First: That gun sales have significantly dropped without the “villains” — former President Obama and former Presidential candidate Clinton — frightening gun owners into buying their firearms prior to possible future restrictions on gun sales had President Trump not been elected. Second: That guns only appeal to the demographic of white males.

A CNN article in February crowed:

It’s a paradox for the gun industry: Their pick for president, Donald Trump, is no good for gun sales.

President Barack Obama was the greatest gun salesman in America — until Hillary Clinton ran to replace him. Sales soared to records because gun owners feared they would impose tougher gun restrictions.

Now that a Republican endorsed by the National Rifle Association is in the White House, those supposed villains have disappeared. Sales of guns …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms