{"id":85040,"date":"2018-01-12T16:41:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T21:41:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/?p=85040"},"modified":"2018-01-12T16:41:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T17:35:40","slug":"nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms\/","title":{"rendered":"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_85041\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gastatic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/remote.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms\" title=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-85041\" title=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-85041\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/remote-400x261.jpg\" alt=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\" width=\"400\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/remote-400x261.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/remote-150x98.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/remote.jpg 727w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-85041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2017 was another strong year for gun sales, says the NRA-ILA. (<em>Photo: NRA-ILA<\/em>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>(<strong>Editor&#8217;s note:<\/strong> <em>The following is a column from the National Rifle Association Institute for Legislative Action.\u00a0 It first appeared on the NRA-ILA <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20180105\/2017-another-year-millions-of-americans-bought-firearms\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms\" title=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\">website<\/a> on Jan. 5, 2018.<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We, like many of our members, watched the NICS numbers all year. We read \u2013 and fact-checked \u2013 all of the claims about the \u201cTrump Slump\u201d and the imminent collapse of the entire firearms industry (see\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20170310\/trump-slump-proved-false-by-strong-background-check-numbers\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms\" title=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20170407\/firearms-purchases-still-trending-up\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms\" title=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20170505\/april-background-checks-strong-numbers-continue\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms\" title=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20170922\/long-term-trends-in-gun-sales-remain-strong\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms\" title=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a>, and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nraila.org\/articles\/20171201\/another-year-another-record\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms\" title=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\"><span class=\"s2\">here<\/span><\/a>). Month after month, the narrative around the NICS data framed gun sales as waning because a new record wasn\u2019t set. Bloomberg headlined its latest entry, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-01-04\/holiday-gun-sales-dip-as-americans-get-their-shopping-done-early\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms\" title=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\"><span class=\"s2\">Gun Sales in America Drop<\/span><\/a>.\u201d The Chicago Tribune reported that \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/business\/ct-biz-holiday-gun-sales-dip-20180104-story.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms\" title=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\"><span class=\"s2\">Holiday gun sales dip after record Black Friday<\/span><\/a>.\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The FBI released the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/file-repository\/nics_firearm_checks_-_year_by_state_type.pdf\/view\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms\" title=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\"><span class=\"s2\">final NICS numbers for 2017<\/span><\/a>. There were 25,235,215 total NICS checks in 2017 \u2013 making last year the second busiest year ever for the NICS office. Across all states, territories, and the District of Columbia, there were 7.2 million NICS checks related to handguns (not including private sales, rentals, returned, pre-pawn, or pawn redemption checks); 5.2 million for long guns; just under 400,000 for \u201cother\u201d firearms; and 236,167 checks for multiple purchases. More than 9.9 million Americans initiated a NICS check for a permit last year.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In terms of individual categories of NICS checks, 2017 ranks third for handgun-related NICS checks and second for \u201cother\u201d checks. In terms of total sales-related checks (handgun, long gun, other, and multiple), 2017 was the fourth-busiest year ever. It was also the second busiest year for permit checks.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/blog\/nra-ila-fourth-circuit-ignores-heller-no-protection-guns-deems-dangerous\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"nra-ila-2017-another-year-millions-americans-bought-firearms\" title=\"NRA-ILA: 2017 is Another Year Millions of Americans Bought Firearms\">NRA-ILA: Fourth Circuit Ignores Heller, No Protection for Guns It Deems \u2018Dangerous\u2019<\/a><\/h2>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Interest in defense and the shooting sports clearly remains strong; sure, NICS doesn\u2019t provide a 1:1 proxy for gun sales but the FBI saw more than 13 million sales-related checks and almost 10 million permit checks. That equates to more than twenty-seven thousand permit checks and nearly thirty-six thousand sales-related checks every single day of the year.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Hopefully, we can put the claims of \u201cTrump Slump\u201d and of the demise of the firearms industry to rest along with the year 2017. The continued strong NICS numbers all year indicate that Americans\u2019 interest in defending themselves and their families, and their interest in the shooting sports, is not dependent on the occupant of the White House. We fully expect the firearms industry to continue to support the passions shared by millions of law-abiding Americans throughout 2018.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hopefully, we can put the claims of \u201cTrump Slump\u201d and of the demise of the firearms industry to rest along with the year 2017. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":85041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,111],"tags":[132,617,309],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85040","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-gunsamerica-authors","8":"category-industry-news","9":"tag-buzz","10":"tag-industry-news","11":"tag-nra"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - 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