Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com The school shooting massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary appears to be driving an unprecedented number of gun sales, the Atlantic Wire reports. In fact, 9 of the 10 days with the most requests ever for FBI background checks occurred after the Dec. 14 shooting, according to the Atlantic Wire. And in Sandy…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com In the month since a shooting at a school in Connecticut killed 20 children and six adults, gun purchases appear to be rapidly on the rise, Reuters reports. Background checks for firearm purchases spiked since the Dec. 14 mass killing, Reuters wrote. Of the 10 most popular days for background checks in…
Steve Neavling ticklethewire.com People are buying guns in record numbers. The FBI recorded nearly 17 million background checks of gun purchases in 2012, the most since the bureau began compiling the date in 1998, the Huffington Post reports. Since the background checks don’t include multiple gun purchases, the number of guns sold this year are…
