Gun Sales Dip Below 1 Million for First Time in 6 Years
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) numbers are in for July 2025. This is the first month in almost six years that the adjusted NICS numbers estimate less than one million firearm sales.
The adjusted figures, as computed by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), are almost 22,000 sales short of one million at 978,731.
In July of 2024, the NSSF calculated adjusted gun sales of 1,064,791. These figures show an eight percent drop in gun sales from last July. The NICS checks themselves fell by only four percent, from 2,021,235 to 1,936,621. About half of NICS checks are being used for purposes other than firearm sales.
NSSF Report: Month of July â 26-Year History
NSSF Report: Last 12 Months year over year data.
The NSSF chart comparing firearm sales over the last twelve months shows a pattern that is very similar. How is it that the numbers from a presidential election year and an off-year without midterm elections are so similar? One possibility is that President Trump dominated the news cycle during both years, both before and six months after his election as president of the United States.
It may be because the old news media have been attempting to drag down President Trump for all of the twenty-four months.
Several factors have slowly reduced the demand for firearms at this time.
President Trump is winning his legislative and court battles. This, combined with a population that contains a majority of Trump supporters, means there is less concern the country will devolve into a nationwide kleptocracy or Anarcho-Tyranny as conceptualized by Samuel Francis in 2022. Victor Davis Hanson sees the Trump administration as a historical counter-revolution. Most of the people in the United States see the United States as moving in the right direction.
The coalition of bureaucrats, college-educated single women, and some minorities, directed by woke cultural Marxists, is a minority of voters, perhaps 25-30 percent. These groups have not been large gun owners in nearly the numbers that Trump supporters have been. The Democratic Party votersâ desire to arm themselves against the false fears of a âTrump dictatorshipâ cannot make up for the reduction of the fears of Constitutionalists. President Trumpâs supporters saw what the Democratic Party was capable of in Bidenâs years. The Trump supporters do not fear the federal government as much as they did before Trump was elected President.
The potential for high gun sales remains, even if the motivation has gone down for the moment.
There are about 535 million cartridge firearms in the United States of America. There is the possibility of market saturation. There are about 268 million people over the age of 17 in the United States of America. The number is probably close to 265 million when violent felons and the dangerous mentally ill members of the population are subtracted from the figure. Those 265 million are potential legal firearms owners.
It is not hard to see potential demand for a rifle, pistol, and shotgun for each adult. Those who become firearm owners are likely to discover they want more specialized products, such as target pistols, historical rifles, or waterfowl shotguns.
Todayâs private stock of 535 million has taken about 126 years to achieve. This does not take into account population increase or technological advancement. There is a lot of potential for more firearm sales.
A great deal of effort has gone into demonizing the ownership of firearms. When such demonization is countered with factual arguments, demand for firearms is likely to go up.
ME: The âGun Grabbersâ are increasingly screeching to less and less deaf ears. When even the SHEEP are seeing with their own eyes Family, Friends, Neighbors and co-workers Affected by CRIME! (Then the Anti-Gun crowd sayâs âYou are NOT seeing what yer seeing! (which is bloody insulting!) These misguided sheep start to say âHey, just a cotton pickinâ minuteâor something to that effect) 
We see the effect of Billions of dollars being thrown against the wall to destroy our Constitutional rights and Put or Self Defense Industry OUT OF BUSINESS. Ranges, Gun Shops, Firearms companies and their âSupportâ companies (Ammo, Body Armor, Magâs etc) are fighting the fight on many fronts against these DISARMAMENT CL 
wnâs! This Trump administration is fighting that (Thank God) but even with their efforts Companies are still falling, FFLâs are still folding. Financially I canât do much in the way of running out and buying more stuff these days. I mean how many guns can one have? 
Sorry that was just too phunnie forgive me! Rest assured as soon as my paychecks start rolling in again I will be the first to belly up to the counter and point my finger and sayâ Give me dat GAT!â 
. GUNS and their assorted hardware have far more meaning to me than just STUFF. It is my Hobby, my SELF DEFENSE PLAN, my bid to keep from turning into a recluse and fight tooth and Nail to associate with Society (even though sometimesâŠoftenâŠI really donât want to)
Reality of this is IT IS OUR RIGHT TO âKEEP AND BEAR ARMS!â and no Billionaire weeny with visions of Socialist Grandeur will stop us all from PROTECTING THAT RIGHT!
God Bless AMERICA! WWG1WGAâNCSWIC!
) Honestly the Dimâs are a whiney, Self Centered bunch of POS! Now they are criss Crossing the Country to AVOID THEIR DUTY by calling the PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES REALLY AWFUL Names (sticks N Stones MY AXX!)
