US Gun Sales Reach Record Highs in 2020 Amid COVID-19, Civil Unrest; COVID-19 Vaccine Will Be Safe, Operation Warp Speed Leaders Vow, and other C-Virus Updates

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US gun sales reach record highs in 2020 amid COVID-19, civil unrest:

So far in 2020 — a year marred by the global coronavirus pandemic and widespread civil unrest — Americans have bought more guns than ever before, according to new research.

From January through September, Americans have purchased a record 16.7 million firearms, data reported by Small Arms Analytics and Forecasting shows.

Jurgen Brauer, chief economist of the firm, said that total exceeds the previous annual high set in 2016 — the year of the last presidential election — when 16.6 million guns were sold.

Firearm sales are up by 66 percent as compared to September 2019 to September 2020, according to the research firm, which makes estimates based on raw data taken from the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System.--->READ MORE HERE

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COVID-19 Vaccine Will Be Safe, Operation Warp Speed Leaders Vow:

The chief operating officer of Operation Warp Speed, the federal government’s project to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, said Tuesday he thinks about his own family in giving his assurances that any such vaccine will be safe.

“Nobody in this organization, in this task force, is going to allow a vaccine to go out to the American people that is not safe and effective,” Army Gen. Gustave Perna said in a Heritage Foundation virtual event. “It would just be shameful if we get a vaccine out to the American people, and people don’t take it because there is doubt or concern.”

Perna said he had 100% confidence the vaccine will be safe.

“We will make sure that we will follow the science to that end. We will not distribute vaccines that are not determined safe and effective. You can take my word for that,” the general said. --->READ MORE HERE

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