I was working at a range during the first Trump Presidency,

and heard sales referred to as the 'Trump slump'; no, he wasn't perfect, but he was better by far on 2nd Amendment stuff than the Democrats(jeez, can you imagine what it would've been like under President Hillary?).  People were far less worried about being able to buy a gun they wanted, so the pressure was off.

Sales kept up this time, seems like, but there was another slump.  And now, after that NFA ruling...

As for NFA checks, a new data figure that the NSSF is tracking for us, in July of 2026, Texas had 16,977 NFA checks to lead the U.S. market. Florida was second (9,784 checks), then Virginia (7,599), then North Carolina (5,941). Georgia rounded out the top five with 5,463 NFA checks. The total NFA checks for July in 2026 were 130,013, an increase of 108.8 percent from the year before.

People are buying, I suspect both because of that, and "I want this before the mid-terms, just in case."