04-10-2024, 02:27 PM
Lemon Drop wrote:
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Seattle Times headline today:
"Gun sales in Washington have fallen dramatically this year, according to federal background check data, as a suite of new state gun regulations took effect."
And if you and the news reporters actually knew your subject, you would know that as of Jan 1, 2024, Washington State Patrol took over doing all background checks, and now, multiple firearms can be covered by the same background check. So number of CHECKS are down,but sales aren't. :emoticon-tv-015:
Oh, good morning Smote.
Your comment about gun sales measurement is inaccurate.
Here is the full article, not behind a paywall. It goes into detail about how gun sales are measured, state to state and nationally. This is not a perfect way to measure but the trends tell the story.
It also goes into detail on how Washington changed it's CBC system, a model for the entire country, and not accurately represented in your comment.
http://tribunecontentagency.com/
Nationwide, gun sales are down 11%. Crime is also down from the Trump/pandemic years, so combined with better gun responsibility laws and better enf orcement in many places, maybe we are finally on the right track.
After 30 years in gun control advocacy, 20 of them in Washington, I'm very glad to see that Washington is among the 10 best states for common sense, responsible management of gun ownership.
In December 2023, firearm sales totaled more than 1.7 million NSSF-Adjusted FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verifications processed for a gun purchase and boosted the streak of more than 1 million firearm sales per month to 53 months in a row. NSSF adjusts NICS data to focus solely on firearm purchases, filtering out NICS checks processed for other non-purchase purposes like renewing firearm permits and concealed carry licenses. The December 2023 total represents a boost up from last year’s December of roughly 1.6 percent.
The 4th Quarter 2023 (October, November and December) total came in at more than 4.7 million. It represents a 4.6 percent increase in sales over Q4 2022 and the 2023 firearm sales total of nearly 15.9 million is only slightly lower than the 2022 total of 16.4 million. But it’s still a year for the record books.
“The last three months of 2023 reversed a years-long downward trend in gun-related background checks,” Stephen Gutowski wrote in The Reload. “The numbers further bolster the idea there has been a rebound in gun sales after nearly three years of continuous decline from unprecedented peaks in 2020.”
In the end, 2023 was the fourth highest year on record for firearm sales since the FBI’s NICS system was first implemented, trailing behind only 2020, 2021 and 2022.
