What better way to celebrate America’s birthday than by exercising one of its most cherished and fundamental freedoms? That’s exactly what the American public did in June, and continues to do, month after month. You, me, all of us bought another 1.1 million firearms in June, making it the 47th consecutive month of one million or more firearms sold according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation’s adjusted NICS background check totals.

As the NSSF’s Mark Oliva tells TTAG . . .

Americans have another million reasons to celebrate this Independence Day. More than 1.1 million times in June, Americans exercised their Second Amendment rights to lawfully purchase a firearm. That extends the streak to 47 continuous months that background checks for firearm purchases have exceeded a million.