2014 was a lackluster year for the industry, so this would be ok, at least from the industry's point of view. Obviously the firearms community doesn't want or need any more restrictions.
“At the same time, the National Shooting Sports Foundation found that while the FBI did conduct fewer criminal background checks on gun buyers this year compared to last, the numbers are still notably high. So far in 2014, 6.95 million background checks have been conducted. That’s down from the high of 8.81 million last year, but it’s still higher than any other year since at least 2005.
“Are consumers buying more guns than last year? No, they are not,” analyst Andrea James, of the financial services firm Dougherty and Company said. “But are consumers buying more guns than two, three, four, five years ago? Yes, they are.”