New Gun Owners Say They Bought Firearms Because Police Might Not Reach Them in Time

Orrrr

700,000 people
Made multiple purchases - requiring

one background check PER PERSON

Not PER GUN

Whoops - got it backwards!!!

Hmmm

Many were denied!

My dislexia

“All political power comes from the barrel of a gun. The democrat party must command all the guns, that way, no guns can ever be used to command the party.”

Nancy Pelosi

Don't forget there is the 'cooling down period' for some states. They can be 2 or more days depending on the state.

Also, all these background checks, I don't know how long they take but I would assume they are back logged.
So I think the amount sold is actually higher now & will most likely go up more.

From the thread title: 'Because Police Might not Reach Them in Time'.

When I first moved to this armpit of Nor Cal nearly 35 years ago, law enforcement response was literally measured in hours...or days...

Today, with helicopters and advances in technology, the response time could be as little as an hour.

An hour is a very long time, when decisions and actions require mere seconds.

I will continue to defend my own ASAP, until if/when the Cavalry arrives. Don't judge me for it. Locked and loaded x 10.

Its interesting, 3.9 million background checks, 2.2 million guns. They don't do a background check unless you actually are making a purchase.

Either 700,000 people were denied a firearm (highly unlikely) or one of those statistics are wrong.

Background is completed within a few moments in the store before the purchase.

Background is completed within a few moments in the store before the purchase.

Could they buy ammo too ?

I can't find ammo anywhere ,all calibers are sold out

Could they buy ammo too ?

I can't find ammo anywhere ,all calibers are sold out

Its interesting, 3.9 million background checks, 2.2 million guns. They don't do a background check unless you actually are making a purchase.

Either 700,000 people were denied a firearm (highly unlikely) or one of those statistics are wrong.

Anyone in Swillinois should really check out the Illinois carry website and forum. There’s a few sticky topics related to the FOID and CCW application process and current wait times.

I remember in May the current wait time was at 90 days for a FOID and the CCW was almost twice that.

On the upside, as long as your current FOID/CCW was expired but you applied to renew before it did the law stipulates that it is still current. I know because I had to renew my CCW and got several “free” months out of them.

As far as buying guns goes, if you haven’t bought them by now you’re firmly behind the eight ball.

As pockets of anti-law enforcement activists demand that jurisdictions strip funding from police departments, ordinary citizens around the country assert that they are resorting to self-defense, and are buying weapons.

The assertions come amid a nationwide spike in personal weapons sales. In June, the FBI checked the backgrounds of 3,931,607 potential gun buyers, according to the Bureau. In the same month, Americans bought 2,387,524 guns, reported Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF), an industry research and consulting group.

“The demand has absolutely exploded beyond anything we have seen over the last 20 years,” said Jurgen Brauer, chief economist for SAAF.

No official data explain the rise, Brauer told Just the News.

“If you walk into a firearms store, they will not ask you the reason for buying a firearm,” he said. “There are small nonscientific anecdotal reports, though. Primarily it’s a security concern where people are not sure if public security is available while they are on lockdown.”

Individual gun owners echoed and expanded on that explanation.

“I saw what happened in Seattle, when police couldn’t get into the protest zone,” said single mother Kathleen Morrison, citing alarm over violent crimes inside the now-dismantled Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone (CHOP). “I thought, what if that happens here,” where she lives on the opposite end of the country, in Virginia. “I signed up for lessons, and I bought a gun.”



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Background is completed within a few moments in the store before the purchase.