Gun Background Checks On Pace to Break Last Year's Record

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Mark Olivia, a spokesperson for the National Shooting Sports Foundation, told The Epoch Times in an April interview that the push for gun ownership restrictions was propelling Americans to buy more guns.
52% : The website, Sanctuary Counties, found on June 20 that there are now 1,930 counties that are "protected by Second Amendment Sanctuary legislation at either the state or county level," representing 61 percent of all counties.
47% : In a statement to The Epoch Times, a spokesperson for the Sanctuary Counties movement said that a "Second Amendment Sanctuary ... refers to a state / county / city or other municipality expressing their support for the Second Amendment and ... many cases vowing not to enforce new / unconstitutional gun laws."
46% : The data comes as Congress has failed to pass major legislation that would restrict gun ownership despite a Democrat majority in both chambers and President Joe Biden's push for tighter restrictions on firearms.
41% : "I think as long as you continue to see these misguided calls for gun control to chip away the rights of law abiding citizens and not look at legislation that's going to keep firearms out of the hands of criminals, firearms in the hands of those who are adjudicated mentally defective, you're going to continue to see Americans go out and exercise their right before that right is seized from them by their government," Olivia said.

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