{"id":109048,"date":"2021-01-05T23:17:54","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T04:17:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=109048"},"modified":"2021-01-05T23:17:54","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T04:17:54","slug":"more-than-23m-firearms-sold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=109048","title":{"rendered":"More than 23M firearms sold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-109053 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Elmer_Fudd.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"262\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Gun sales &#8216;don&#8217;t fit the caricature&#8217; of the typical gun owner: Gun store spokesman<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Over 21M gun background checks conducted in 2020.\u00a0 <\/strong><strong>Analysts estimate there were 8.4M first-time gun buyers in 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>By Stephanie Pagones<br \/>\nMore than 21 million\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/industries\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gun<\/a>\u00a0background checks were conducted in 2020 \u2013 up 60% from 2019 and over 34% from the previous record set in 2016 \u2013 with nearly 23 million firearms\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/retail\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sold<\/a>\u00a0last year, experts and trade groups said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Last year was a record-smashing year for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/us\/personal-freedoms\/second-amendment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gun sales<\/a>, with nearly 23 million units purchased, according to data compiled by Small Arms Analytics &amp; Forecasting\u00a0(SAAF). Meanwhile, the FBI conducted 21,083,643 firearm background checks over the course of 2020, compared to the 15,700,471 checks done in 2016, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) said in a press release.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Impossible to account for the black market, gray market, ghost guns, 80% kits, serviceable antiques, Hondo Specials, etc&#8230;<br \/>\nRead the entire article here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/lifestyle\/gun-background-checks-2020-record-firearms\">Fox News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/2a1-e1609906549378.jpg\" alt=\"home grown\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gun sales &#8216;don&#8217;t fit the caricature&#8217; of the typical gun owner: Gun store spokesman Over 21M &hellip; <a title=\"More than 23M firearms sold\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=109048\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">More than 23M firearms sold<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":657,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,397,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns","category-second-amendment","category-society"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/657"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109048"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109054,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109048\/revisions\/109054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}