WSJ had an article in which the Dicks blamed President Trump for their sales drop, in that gun owners rushed to buy when Obama/Holder/Lyncher were in charge, then calmed down when the new fellow arrived.
Will be interesting to see how Nike’s coming sales airball will be linked to Trump too. Of course Nike can always count on a certain high percentage of their wares flooding the streets owing simply to BLM five-finger discount.
Except that they didn't. NICS checks by year from 1998:
1998 - 892,840 (Nov and Dec only)
1999 - 9,138,123
2000 - 8,543,037
2001 - 8,910,191
2002 - 8,454,322
2003 - 8,481,588
2004 - 8,687,671
2005 - 8,952,945
2006 - 10,036,933
2007 - 11,177,335
2008 - 12,709,023
2009 - 14,033,824
2010 - 14,409,616
2011 - 16,454,951
2012 - 19,592,303
2013 - 21,093,273
2014 - 20,968,547
2015 - 23,141,970
2016 - 27,538,673
2017 - 25,235,215
2018 - 15,128,636 (through July - on track for 25,934,805 if numbers hold)
Grand total - 293,581,016.
So, 2016, 2017, are higher, and 2018 is set to be higher, than all years from 2015 back to 1998.
Source: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf/view
There is also a state-by-state list - https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year_by_state.pdf/view