Seems like everyone you talk to laments the collapse of the firearms market since the election. Dealer after dealer bemoans the slow down. This seemed to be true, especially as everyone was saying so. But I was doing some research for an appraisal I am doing and graphed out NICS checks from 2012 to 2019. For 2019 I calculated the average percentage of annual sales in the first three months from previous years and used that to annualize Q1 2019. The graph is below. Ignore the $, the numbers are the number of checks run.
So yeah, 2016 was a big blip up, but but the overall trend has been a steady uphill run. Thus I have to wonder, are things as bad as everyone seems to think?
So yeah, 2016 was a big blip up, but but the overall trend has been a steady uphill run. Thus I have to wonder, are things as bad as everyone seems to think?