March 2018 U.S. Firearms Sales Picking Up

By Ammoland

GREENVILLE, SC, USA & HALIFAX, NS, CANADA –-(Ammoland.com)- Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) estimates March 2018 firearms sales at 1,594,988 units, a year-over-year increase of 11.4% from March 2017.

Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting’s firearms unit sales estimates are based on raw data taken from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), adjusted for checks likely to be unrelated to end-user firearms sales.

The FBI’s numbers cannot be taken at face-value as very large numbers of background checks are unrelated to end-user sales. For example, in March the state of Kentucky conducted almost 391,000 so-called permit checks whereas end-user checks at firearms retailers amounted to just over 30,000 checks.

Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting Chief Economist Jurgen Brauer comments that “while the renewed national debate on firearms regulation following the February 14 mass shooting at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., had surprisingly little effect on February sales figures, this seems to have been made up for in the March sales figures, perhaps because a number of states actually proposed and passed age-limitations and other restrictions on firearms sales.”

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Source:: AmmoLand