That’s despite one of the highest-profile mass
shootings in American history at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in
Florida, as well as sustained gun control activism, and electoral victories by
Democrats who almost uniformly promised to pursue stronger gun laws.In past
years, similar factors have bumped firearm sales to record highs. But last
year, shootings and demands for gun control failed to arrest what has been
called the gun industry’s “Trump slump.”
Americans bought an estimated 13.8
million firearms in 2018, according to Brauer. That’s still historically
strong: in only five of the last 20 years have American bought more guns than
they did the previous year. But the 2018 total is down from an all-time high of
16.6 million guns sold in 2016 and 14.7 million in 2017. Few observers were
surprised when sales fell during the first year of the Trump administration:
With pro-gun Republicans at the height of their power at both the federal and
state level, the gun-buying public had reason to believe the president and
Congress would block new firearm laws, even after the Las Vegas and Sutherland
Springs massacres.
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