Sentences with phrase «as gun sales»

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At its analyst day, the company said it was gunning for sales in the year ending January 2021 to hit as much as $ 119.8 billion, compared with this year's estimate of $ 100.6 billion.

Firearm sales have fallen significantly since the election of Donald Trump as president, as other chains including Cabela's have reported, as fears of new gun laws have receded.

Even as legislators and presidential hopefuls discuss gun control measures, investors worry that a year - long surge in firearm sales is losing steam.

Eventually — unless the statutes controlling machine guns change — legal sales will become increasingly rare as their numbers inexorably shrink over time.

This explains the 40 % year - over-year increase in gun sales in June, as well as in the first two months of this year following the San Bernardino shooting in December.

Though older versions are technically legal to own, buy, and sell in many states, brand new «machine guns» — defined by law as a fully automatic weapon capable of firing more than one shot per trigger pull — have not been available for sale or purchase for civilian use in the United States since the Firearm Owners» Protection Act of 1986.

Gun sales slumped after the 2016 presidential election, as fears that a Hillary Clinton presidency would usher in new gun control legislation dissipated with Mr. Trump's victory.

Both sides of the gun control debate saw this week's decisions by Dick's Sporting Goods, Walmart and Kroger to limit firearms sales as symbolically game - changing.

Gun maker Remington Outdoor Co. is planning to file for bankruptcy protection as early as next week as it built capacity when gun sales were soaring but sales dropped after Mr. Trump took office.

FBI firearm background checks are used as a proxy for national gun sales.

President Trump backed a Senate proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, as part of a call for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. gun policy in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

This year, gun owners have declared that they will rush to the stores to buy firearms in case Obama is reelected as President of the U.S. Already, RGR and competitor, Smith & Wesson (SWHC), have enjoyed impressive sales figures.

American Outdoor Brands Corp. forecast weak firearm sales for at least a year, becoming the latest gun maker to report disappointing results as lawmakers discuss tougher regulations.

Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. said its decision to no longer sell guns to anyone under 21 years old has hurt traffic and retail sales as the move upset some customers and exacerbated headwinds to its hunting and gun business.

In the article, the MSM propagandist states such things as: 2017 has seen, according to his one time Goldman Sachs source, a «dramatic crash in [physical gold coin] demand,» that interest in gold coins is linked to «political conservatism, or anarcho - libertarianism» and «end of the world right wing sentiments,» that gold has been implicated in a «conspiracy to commit money laundering,» that gold is «financed by people in the narcotics trade,» that it comes from «illegal mines and drug dealers in Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador,» that «the federal authorities assume the NTR Metals [case] represented only a fraction of illegally sourced and financed gold,» that therefore the US attorney is broadly investigating the gold industry, that gold is «produced by exploited workers,» that «crude [gold] extraction techniques create serious and lasting environmental damage,» that gold plays an important part in «tax evasion,» that it is related to American gun sales, which the author abhors; that «drug dealers [use] gold imports as a way of laundering their proceeds,» and that «they came to realize that illegal gold [is] an intrinsically better business» than drug dealing; to name but a few of the aspersions cast against gold in the short article.

So as a natural progression, you should deliver them more educational content — not jump the gun with a sales message.

(Unlicensed sales, such as at gun shows, have looser restrictions.)

It also called for private sale and gun show loopholes to be closed and universal background checks to be enacted, as well as a universal database of those banned from buying guns.

And gun sale trends could change if President Donald Trump makes another surprising comment about gun control or commits to a policy push on the issue, as he seemed to do in a recent White House roundtable.

Gun sales normally spike when Democrats are in power, as gun owners» fears of gun - control measures rise.

This reevaluation comes as public anger over political inaction on gun control shifts toward the American companies that profit from gun sales.

And regardless of intensity, the public as a whole is remarkably united behind at least modest measures to restrict gun sales.

Every time a Democrat is elected president, gun and ammunition sales (and prices) go way up as owners fear some ban which never happens.

It seems that more and more transfer dealings take place right at the end of the allotted timeframe, with clubs sticking to their guns for as long as possible before committing themselves to a sale or purchase.

The City Council unanimously voted Friday to ban sales of guns and ammunition at the Saratoga Springs City Center, though a show scheduled to take place in May will go on as planned.

As teachers returned today to a high school where a shooter killed 17 people, Florida's governor, Republican Rick Scott, proposed banning the sale of firearms to anyone younger than 21 as part of a three - point plan to prevent gun violencAs teachers returned today to a high school where a shooter killed 17 people, Florida's governor, Republican Rick Scott, proposed banning the sale of firearms to anyone younger than 21 as part of a three - point plan to prevent gun violencas part of a three - point plan to prevent gun violence.

Trump told governors gathered in D.C. that he would take action to ban the sale of bump stocks without Congress, and said it's «OK» to push back against the NRA «every once as a while,» as the powerful gun lobbying group fights calls to enact stricter gun control laws after the shooting.

President Donald Trump backed a U.S. Senate proposal to expand background checks on gun sales, as part of a call for a sweeping overhaul of U.S. gun policy in the wake of the Florida school shooting.

For example, it is already portrayed as «universal background checks» for all gun sales.

Cuomo said it was necessary to pass the law fast — even as President Obama and other governors were preparing new gun laws — because guns sales were spiking as buyers sought to avoid new laws.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo is taking a beating from fellow Democrats and left - leaning entities like the Working Families Party for agreeing to suspend the creation of a database to be used for ammunition sale background checks — a provision of the controversial gun control law known as the SAFE Act.

More than one in five Americans (23 %) say gun legislation should remain as it is, and only 5 % think the laws covering gun sales should be less strict.

While county Democrats contend that the shows would increase the likelihood of illegal gun sales as well as work to promote «gun culture» in Westchester, Republicans maintained that disallowing the shows infringed on residents» constitutional rights.

BASC also looks forward to discussing the detail on issues such as trophy hunting, the intensive rearing of game birds, gun dog sales and electronic training collars to ensure unintended consequences that could damage animal welfare and the contribution of shooting are avoided.

The gun - rights group NY2A has delivered petitions to Senate leaders in opposition to IDC Leader Jeff Klein «s bill that would not only prevent the sale of guns to people on no - fly suspected terrorist list but allow for their confiscation as well.

In the three years since the massacre in Newtown, Conn., the country's biggest gun manufacturers have made loads of money following a string of mass shootings — proof that as the body count rises, so do sales and profit.

Although the private sale loophole is frequently referred to as the «gun show» loophole (because of the particular problems associated with gun shows), it applies to all private firearm sales, regardless of where they occur.

Until we such time as we have universal background checks, which is background checks at gun sales, background checks for secondary and tertiary (person - to person sales without a dealer), the background check system falls far short of its intended goal.»

A $ 100 - per - firearm federal sales tax would help stem the flow of illegal weapons into New York, reducing the number of gun - related deaths such as those of the four NYPD officers killed in the past year, Rep. Nydia Velázquez said Monday.

WHITE PLAINS, NY — On his second day as Westchester County Executive, George Latimer delivered on a promise from in his campaign, and signed an Executive Order prohibiting the sale of guns on Westchester County property.

At the time, Hochul's campaign attributed her support from the NRA to her time as Erie County clerk, where she streamlined the permitting process and provided staff and technology at gun shows to ensure sales went through safely.

To that end, one of the first things the legislature did in its 2013 session was to pass a tougher assault weapons ban that included restrictions on ammunition and the sale of guns, as well as provisions to keep guns from the mentally ill who make threats.

«Her background in law enforcement and as an advocate for victims means her voice will carry weight in Washington as she advocates for universal background checks on all gun sales to prevent violent criminals, domestic abusers and the seriously mentally ill from buying guns, «Gunn Barrett said.

The State Legislature passed a law in 1931 that said «a person who sells or keeps for sale, or offers, or gives, or disposes of any instrument or weapon of the kind usually known as a machine - gun to any person is guilty of a felony.»

«I myself, as a prosecutor, have dealt with gun violence... As long as (the denied gun sale to a suspected terrorist) is brought before an independent judiciary with the standard of probable cause... that's the issuas a prosecutor, have dealt with gun violence... As long as (the denied gun sale to a suspected terrorist) is brought before an independent judiciary with the standard of probable cause... that's the issuAs long as (the denied gun sale to a suspected terrorist) is brought before an independent judiciary with the standard of probable cause... that's the issuas (the denied gun sale to a suspected terrorist) is brought before an independent judiciary with the standard of probable cause... that's the issue.

To estimate gun sales during the months after the shooting, Levine and McKnight looked at the number of federal background checks on individuals seeking to purchase a firearm from a licensed dealer as a proxy.

Levine and McKnight used the number of background checks reported to the government by federally licensed gun dealers as a proxy for gun sales.

EBay has already banned the sale of bullets, guns and pornography on its site and plans to crack down on endangered animal sales with the help of software filters that flag words such as «ivory» and prevent sellers from posting listings of illegal items, Cartwright said.

In a separate vote, the Assembly passed a measure to strengthen background checks for sales of long guns such as rifles and shotguns.

Dogfighting is frequently related to activities such as gambling, drug dealing and illegal gun sales, and it exposes youth to violence and desensitizes them from committing acts of cruelty towards animals.