U.S. Firearms Sales: November 2019 Only Slighter Higher than 2018

By Ammoland

GREENVILLE, SC, USA & HALIFAX, NS, CANADA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) estimates November 2019 U.S. firearms sales at 1,423,869 units, a year-over-year increase of 1.4% from November 2018.

Likely single handgun sales (702,390) increased year-over-year by 9.2% whereas single long-gun sales (614,538) decreased year-over-year by 2.0%. All other likely background check-related sales (106,941) decreased year-over-year by 20.3%. This includes so-called “multiple” sales where the allocation between handguns and long-guns cannot be determined from the data record.

SAAF’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 unlikely to be related to end-user firearms sales. For example, the FBI’s raw numbers (for November, some 2,545,863) cannot be taken at face value as very large numbers of background checks are unrelated to end-user sales. As a case in point, in November the state of Kentucky conducted over 360,000 so-called permit checks and rechecks alone whereas end-user checks at firearms retailers likely amounted to about 30,000 checks. SAAF makes certain other adjustments to the data based on retailer reports and other information; nonetheless, the estimates …Read the Rest

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