Uncertainty "tends to make firearms sell, for sure." Gun sales are on pace for a record year
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We've seen many products become popular during the pandemic, including puzzles, home improvement items and exercise equipment. One item continuing in big demand: guns. Their sales are on pace for a record year, reports CBS Miami.
Gun stores nationwide are seeing an increase in customers. The FBI said there were almost 16 million background checks for firearm purchases from January through last month. That's a 31% increase compared to the same time last year. Sales at Fuquay Gun & Gold in North Carolina have been non-stop since the pandemic started.Billions of cicadas are emerging across about 16 states in the Southeast and Midwest. Periodical cicadas used to reliably emerge every 13 or 17 years, depending on their brood. But in a warming world where spring conditions arrive sooner, climate change is messing with the bugs' internal alarm clocks.
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