Sales of firearms have inched higher since Vice President Kamala Harris replaced President Joe Biden at the top of the Democratic ticket, a sign that some voters are concerned that she will make good on her plans to ban guns if elected president.
According to the latest FBI background check count, sales and checks were below last year. That was unusual since gun sales typically increase in an election year.
But when Biden was pushed out by party elites in July and Harris swooped in to claim his nomination without facing a single primary voter, gun sales turned higher than last year. Also, the first assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump occurred in July.
Since July, month over month sales have ticked higher by about 125,000 with the background check count up some 260,000. Those checks include more than just gun sales.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the industry’s trade group, said adjusted background checks showed a 1.3% sales increase in September over September 2023 to 1,156,223.
That meant that for 62 consecutive months, gun sales have been above 1 million a month.
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