Fox News Rundown Extra: What's Behind The Surge In Gun Sales?

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🗓️ 22 August 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Whether it's increased violence in American cities or the uncertainty bought on by the pandemic or an election year, more people arming themselves. In fact, Americans have already bought more guns this year than in all of 2019. Earlier this week, host Dave Anthony spoke to John Lott, President of the Crime Prevention Research Center, and Kris Brown, President of Brady United Against Gun Violence , to discuss this year's surge in gun sales and what a Biden presidency would mean for gun control. The discussions were too long and we only included small portions of each interview in our original segment. Guns will no doubt be a big topic in both local and national races and we wanted you to hear everything both guests had to say about the issue. On the Fox News Rundown Extra, you will hear our complete interviews with both Crime Prevention Research Center's John Lott and Brady United's Kris Brown. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:19.0	I'm Dave Anthony. Today another double play on something that's a trend in this
0:28.1	Corona crisis. Gun sales have been surging since March.
0:33.2	But the virus isn't the only reason.
0:35.8	We have, of course, had months of anti-police protest nationwide
0:39.9	sparked by George Floyd's death during an arrest in Minneapolis in May that led to four officers being fired,
0:45.5	then charged, one with murder.
0:47.9	Those protests have also at times gotten violent,
0:51.2	especially in Portland, Oregon.
0:54.0	But there's also been a spike in shootings and murders in other cities, so gun sales so
0:58.4	far this year have already surpassed all of last year.
1:03.0	You'll hear two different views on that.
1:05.0	One from the gun control group Brady United.
1:08.0	The other from John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center.
1:12.0	He also wrote a book, Gun Control Myth of the
1:13.0	crime prevention research center he also would a book gun control myths
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