Isn't it funny how reality always reasserts itself?

A new report from the National Shooting Sports Foundation says background checks for gun sales have surged in anti-gun states.

Mark Oliva, NSSF Managing Director of Public Affairs, noted, "April…[witnessed an] uptick of 1,369,296 FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) verifications."

He suggested this increase "shows that there continues to be a steady appetite for lawful firearm ownership even as certain state governors and legislators are taking radical measures to infringe on the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens to possess firearms."

Of particular interest to these buyers are rifles based on the AR or AK platforms (the extra scary aSsAulT riFleS).

Washington and Illinois, which have both banned said scary rifles in recent months, have seen huge increases in gun sales, as has Oregon.

"Washington state tallied 71,272 adjusted background checks in April 2023, compared to 49,641 in April 2022" and "Illinois posted a total of 39,954 adjusted background checks in April 2023, compared to 35,790 in April 2022," Oliva said. (NSSF uses the phrase "adjusted background checks" to note checks which specifically apply to gun sales.)

And in Democrat-controlled Oregon, where more gun control is consistently pushed year after year, there were "43,574 adjusted background checks in April 2023, compared to 27,921 a year ago."

Here's a chart showing the past 23 years of gun sale data for the month of April:

Translation: Americans are buying more guns than any other time than directly following the lockdowns and BLM riots.

Keep it up, my friends!