Gun sales surged 65% in the month of October as this year’s figures show a continued “record firearm sales pace” amid unrest and uncertainty, according to statistics released Monday.
An estimated 1.9 million firearms were sold in October this year, a 65% spike from the same month in 2019, according to data provided by Small Arms Analytics and Forecasting (SAAF), a research group that examines the raw data obtained from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS.
SAAF Chief Economist Jurgen Brauer said in a Monday press release that an estimated 18.6 million firearms have been sold so far this year, as 2020 “continues on its record firearms sales pace.”
Just last month, the SAAF announced the number of guns sold from January to September 2020 — 16.7 million — had surpassed the previous annual high of 16.6 million firearms, which were sold from January to December 2016.
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