Politics, self-protection fuel second-best gun sales year ever

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Liberal threats of gun control and concerns about out-of-control crime in many big cities run by Democrats helped to push 2021 gun sales and FBI background checks to near-record highs.

The FBI on Monday afternoon said that the number of background checks it conducted last year was just a hair less than 2020, when a record 39.6 million were done. In 2021, the agency did 38.8 million.

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