coronavirus gun sales surge

Why More Healthcare Professionals are Buying Firearms

Bigstock By Robert B. Young, MD We know that American firearm sales have dramatically increased since the spread of SARS-Cov-2 (COVID-19, coronavirus, etc.). This study’s methodology is nothing to write home about. Their total population was…

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Wintemute & Friends: All Those New Coronavirus Gun Buyers Are a Ticking Time Bomb!

(AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli) It was bad enough that millions of people lined up outside gun stores beginning in March when national emergency was declared. Sales continued at a brisk pace as news dribbled out of…


Why North Americans Are Buying So Many Guns During the Coronavirus Pandemic

(AP Photo/John Locher, File) Noah S. Schwartz, Carleton University The COVID-19 pandemic has caused a surge in gun sales. Estimates based on background checks show that an estimated 2.6 million guns were sold in the…


Buying Guns During the Coronavirus Emergency is ‘Retail Therapy’

Courtesy Yelp “I’ve been here my whole life doing this,” said [Gun Room owner Shaun] Lacasse, whose father opened the [Portland, Oregon] store in 1965. “I’m 52 years old, I grew up behind this counter….


Gun Control Orgs Panic As FBI Data Shows Historic Surge in Civilian Gun Ownership

Courtesy NSSF The FBI’s March NICS background data for march was released yesterday and it was every bit as horrific as the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex feared it would be. The adjusted background check data…


Americans Buying Firearms Show That The Gun Control Orgs Have Clearly Lost the Argument

People wait in a line at a gun at store amid merchandise displays, in Arcadia, Calif., Sunday, March 15, 2020. AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) Do you feel badly, Mr. and Mrs. America, knowing how much…


LA County Sheriff Closes Gun Sellers, Then Backs Down Under Blowback, Cities Reopening Stores

Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File) Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva saw an opportunity yesterday and took it. Governor Gavin Newsom’s stay-at-home order shutting down most businesses in the…


Can’t Buy a Gun Now? Why Not Use a Black Powder Revolver For Home and Self Defense?

Courtesy Uberti Since buying conventional cartridge firearms is difficult at best right now, have you thought about buying a black powder revolver for self-defense? Specifically, the cap and ball variety. We’re talking about the cowboy…


Overwhelmed Gun Stores Refusing to Process Online Purchase Transfers

Courtesy Palmetto State Armory One of the ways that Americans who haven’t been able to find the firearms they want right now locally have been coping with the current gun buying surge is to order…


Post-Gazette: Buying Firearms and Carrying a Gun Right Now Isn’t Helpful

People wait in line to enter gun seller Tanner’s Sports Center in Jamison, Pa., Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Pennsylvania’s state-run background check system for gun purchases processed about three times its typical daily rate on…