Why Have Gun Sales Declined?

 Tom Knighton, at Townhall.com asks Why Gun Sales Were Down For December(?) Citing numbers from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) Knighton motes that Year over year for December gun sales have fallen from 1.776 million to 1.643 million firearms. The question is why? Have we finally begun to satisfy the desire to have a weapon around just in case of violent attack?

Knighton has his own ideas on the reasons why people are buying fewer guns.

With that said, why? Why were gun sales down, not just for December but for 2024 as a whole when compared to 2023?

Of course, this is going to just be speculation, but I think part of it was because the writing was on the wall that Democrats weren't really going to win in the 2024 election.

The one thing about guns that Democrats are great at is selling them. The threat of a gun ban looming tends to get a lot of people into gun stores and buying firearms, particularly those that are most likely to be banned.

From the moment of the first debate between Trump and Biden, it was clear where things were going. Kamala Harris taking over didn't help all that much, especially as the media bent over backward to such a degree that even your ordinary voters couldn't help but see it. Democrats alienated pretty much everyone who wasn't in their camp and the voters saw it.

What that meant, though, was that a lot of people just didn't see the threat of gun control as being all that real for the first time in a few years.

That means there just won't be as many gun sales.

We should all hope that Knighton is correct and that some sanity will return to America. As a Lutheran, I believe that man is fallen, and inclined to do the wrong things. But the more people who at least try to do the right thing, in otherwords the more sane we become, the less need for constant access to weapons we will have. But we will never eliminate the need entirely until Christ comes again.