Democrats took the House and Senate in the 2026 midterms, prompting Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Chairman Alan Gottlieb on November 4 to predict more firearm buying before January like 2020 if majorities limit modern semiautomatic rifles and pistols. The National Shooting Sports Foundation recorded 1,402,422 adjusted NICS checks in October 2026, 7.9 percent above 1,299,312 a year earlier, led by Texas, Florida, California, Pennsylvania and Virginia. The Supreme Court will hear oral argument December 2 in Viramontes v. Cook County and Grant v. Higgins on bans of commonly owned semiautomatic firearms.