The FBI processed 52,252 background checks for New Yorkers seeking to buy firearms
FBI background checks for gun purchases in New York in June more than doubled from a year ago, according to a new report.
Data shows the FBI processed 52,252 background checks for people seeking to buy firearms in the state in June--a 121 percent increase from June 2019, the New York Postreported Saturday.
“When the original COVID scare started in the beginning of March and people thought they might get laid off, at that point we saw a huge surge," Cliff Pfleger, the owner of a Long Island gun shop, told the paper. "We sold out of almost everything we had in the store.”
He added, “We had lines continuously, even though we didn’t have things to sell. The people who are coming to the store — a lot of them were first-time firearm purchasers, and they obviously did not apply or have a handgun license,” he said.
Pfleger closed briefly after the state shuttered businesses in mid-March to contain the spread of the coronavius, but he was able to secure essential business-status and reopened about a week later.
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FBI background checks for gun purchases in New York in June more than doubled from a year ago, according to a new report.
Data shows the FBI processed 52,252 background checks for people seeking to buy firearms in the state in June--a 121 percent increase from June 2019, the New York Postreported Saturday.
“When the original COVID scare started in the beginning of March and people thought they might get laid off, at that point we saw a huge surge," Cliff Pfleger, the owner of a Long Island gun shop, told the paper. "We sold out of almost everything we had in the store.”
He added, “We had lines continuously, even though we didn’t have things to sell. The people who are coming to the store — a lot of them were first-time firearm purchasers, and they obviously did not apply or have a handgun license,” he said.
Pfleger closed briefly after the state shuttered businesses in mid-March to contain the spread of the coronavius, but he was able to secure essential business-status and reopened about a week later.
New York gun background checks spiked 121 percent in June: report
FBI background checks for gun purchases in New York in June more than doubled from a year ago, according to a new report.
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