Background checks set new records and yet the gun industry is suffering.

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5. I don't. I was addressing something else.

It all worked well as long as the sales chain remained intact; manufacturer sells to distributor, distributor to retail outlet and outlet to end user, each taking profit and each creating demand for the product.

Then the manufacturers and distributors began bypassing the retailer through catalog sales, selling at prices even lower than retail cost. Next thing you know the manufacturers did the same thing to the distributors. Cameras, cameras everywhere but dealers and distributors were folding left and right.

That's from your OP.

In the case of new firearms, the sales chain must remain intact because of the requirement that new gun sales go through a licenced dealer. You know, background checks and all that jazz.

That is what I was addressing.