{"id":117530,"date":"2021-02-04T09:22:18","date_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117530"},"modified":"2021-02-04T09:58:12","modified_gmt":"2021-02-04T14:58:12","slug":"gun-sales-set-january-record-as-democrats-took-control-of-white-house-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gun-sales-set-january-record-as-democrats-took-control-of-white-house-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Gun Sales Set January Record As Democrats Took Control Of White House, Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgun-sales-set-january-record-as-democrats-took-control-of-white-house-congress%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=117530&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Joe-Biden.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Gun sales in January set a record for the number of firearms purchased in the first month of the year as Democrats took control of the Senate and President Joe Biden transitioned into the White House.<\/p>\n<p>Gun stores sold about 2.2 million firearms last month, up from 1.2 million sales in January 2020, about an 80% increase, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/smallarmsanalytics.com\/v1\/pr\/2021-02-02.pdf\">Small Arms Analytics and Forecasting<\/a> (SAAF). The spike in sales accompanied a record amount of 4,317,804 FBI background checks ever completed in one month: 4,317,804, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/fbi-gun-background-check-statistics-firearms\">Fox News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SAAF calculates the number of firearms sold over a given time period by analyzing data from the FBI\u2019s National Instant Criminal Background Check System and controlling for factors such as multiple guns bought by one person or someone receiving a background check for something other than a gun purchase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJanuary 2021 certainly started off with a sales \u2018bang\u2019 due to the turmoil surrounding the confirmation and inauguration of Mr. Biden as the new U.S. President,\u201d SAAF Chief Economist Jurgen Brauer said in a statement. \u201cThe 79% year-over-year increase, however, was NOT unprecedented \u2013 an even higher increase, of just over 100%, was experienced in January 2013, the month Mr. Obama\u2019s second presidential term began.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gun sales typically rise along with unrest and uncertainty, as well as when politicians push for gun control during elections or after tragic events such as school shootings. For example, gun sales spiked after mass protests and riots erupted following the death of George Floyd in May. Gun stores sold 2.8 million firearms in June and 2.5 million firearms in July.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the demand is likely due to the Democratic president taking control of the White House after campaigning on restricting access to guns, according to National Shooting Sports Federation spokesman Mark Oliva. Democrats also took control of the Senate while retaining control of the House.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re going to act while they can to be able to buy what they want,\u201d Oliva told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/02\/03\/business\/gun-sales-january\/index.html\">CNN<\/a>. \u201cIt can\u2019t be discounted that many of these background checks for the purchase of a firearm are attributed to threats by the Biden administration to enact the most radical and far-reaching gun control agenda ever proposed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Uneasiness felt following the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol building may have also driven some of the increased demand for firearms last month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think there\u2019s still concerns for safety,\u201d Oliva added. \u201cThere\u2019s people who fear they\u2019re not going to be able to provide their own safety.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his campaign, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/biden-calls-for-assault-gun-ban-while-americans-buy-in-record-numbers-after-riots-defund-police-push-nra-trolls-him\">pledged<\/a> to ban so-called \u201cassault weapons.\u201d In March, then-candidate Biden announced that former Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/joe-biden-declares-beto-orourke-to-lead-bidens-anti-gun-agenda\">Beto O\u2019Rourke<\/a>&nbsp;(D-TX), who dropped out of the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, would lead Biden\u2019s efforts on gun control.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanna make something clear, I\u2019m going to guarantee you this is not the last you\u2019ve seen of [O\u2019Rourke],\u201d Biden told a crowd of supporters at the time. \u201cYou\u2019re going to take care of the gun problem with me. You\u2019re going to be the one who leads this effort.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the central issues of O\u2019Rourke\u2019s failed presidential bid was strict gun control, including a ban on AR-15s, the most popular rifles in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gun-stores-struggling-to-keep-firearms-stocked-as-election-surge-continues\">Gun Stores Struggling To Keep Firearms Stocked As Election Surge Continues<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun sales in January set a record for the number of firearms purchased in the first month of the year as Democrats took control of the Senate and President Joe &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892616,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4154,3685,3780,4752,5219,4700],"class_list":["post-117530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-control","tag-democrats","tag-january","tag-record","tag-sales","tag-took"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}