Record Breaking: 5.5 Million Guns Sold In First Three Months Of 2021

Topping a record in anything is never easy, but if firearms sales stay on track this could be another record year.

The National Sport Shooting Foundation (NSSF), the trade group for the firearms industry, reported earlier this month that there were nearly 5.5 million firearms sold in the United States in the first three months of 2021. That was up by thirteen percent from a year ago for the first quarter, and it was also the most guns sold in any three-month period since the FBI introduced its background check data system in 1999.

The FBI’s data is compiled by the NSSF to determine sales of new firearms.

Even as February, which saw record cold and rolling blackouts in Texas, saw a slight decline in overall gun sales, the first quarter of the year was extremely strong, breaking all past records for the same period.