Sentences with phrase «gun sales surged»

FBI background checks and gun sales surged in March, likely a reaction to the calls for gun control and bans following the February 14 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,...

Levine and McKnight also gauged whether the increase in accidental gun deaths was more pronounced in geographical areas in which gun sales surged higher than elsewhere in the country after Sandy Hook.

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

Spurred by calls that gun controls were imminent, buyers purchased more Remington firearms, and sales surged 36 percent, to $ 1.3 billion in 2013, Moody's said.

But the prospect of imminent gun control legislation helped Remington sales surge 36 percent, to $ 1.3 billion in 2013, according to Moody's.

But this is the first time researchers have found a coincident surge in accidental gun deaths: Levine and McKnight studied trends in firearms sales and accidental gun deaths from 2008 through 2015 and found no other instances of such a pattern.

They chose the 5 - month window because it corresponded with a surge in gun sales.