2 Million Guns Sold in August, 49th Straight Month of Over 1 Million Sales

Gun sales in the United States have kept up at an elevated level since the past few years despite the federal government’s efforts to introduce gun control measures.

A gun store employee shows a customer an AR-style weapon at Lawful Defense in Gainesville, Fla., on April 19, 2023. AR stands for the ArmaLite rifle brand and the guns styled like it, and not "assault rifle," as commonly believed. Nanette Holt/The Epoch Times

Gun sales in the United States exceeded 2 million last month—the 49th straight month in which firearm sales crossed a million.

In August, 2.04 million checks were conducted through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), according to an analysis by Guns.com. Though this is a 16.4 percent dip from the 2.45 million checks conducted in August 2022, the numbers are still higher when compared to the years before the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, it said.