Posted April 9, 2016 12:28 pm by Comments

By Jenn Jacques

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If the first quarter is any indication of where this election year is going, 2016 should prove to send a strong message to every candidate running their campaign on gun control.

It ain’t happening.

So far, 2016 is on pace to burn past last year’s record of 23 million background checks.

The FBI reported an impressive 7,682,141 background checks in the first quarter this year. That’s a 36% increase from the same period last year, when the FBI reported 5,644,866 background checks.

Kentucky, California, and Indiana continue to dominate the field in terms of total number of background checks completed.

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But it’s not just gun sales. Somebody should write the book, “When you give a citizen a gun…” because they’re going to want a concealed carry permit to go with it. Texas has issued it’s 1 millionth concealed carry permit, the number of Illinois FOID cards now surpass 2 million, and every state in the union seems to be buried in applications.

In Moore County, NC, County officials say they have more than 300 back-logged applications waiting to be processed. In Fayetteville, NC, Cumberland County Sheriff’s Office lawyer Ronnie Mitchell says …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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