Wa Examiner: FBI gun background checks, linked closely to weapons sales, recorded the second-highest month ever in December, propelling 2019’s count to the most since the National Instant Criminal Background Check System began in 1998.
The agency said Monday morning that it recorded 28,369,750 background checks in 2019, a 3% jump over the last record set in 2016.
In December, there were 2,936,894 NICS checks, the second-highest month ever.
The 2016 record, pushed high in part because gun control advocate Hillary Rodham Clinton was expected to beat President Trump, was not expected to be steamrolled this year.
But gun shops around the nation saw a surge in sales because of highly publicized shootings, cheap prices, and an increase in states eager to impose controls on sales, bans, and even confiscations of weapons.
Overall, NICS checks were up 831,077 over 2016. The system conducts background checks for those buying weapons and seeking carry permits.
What’s more, with the 2020 election just 11 months away and all Democratic presidential candidates pushing gun control agendas, it could be another record year of sales and NICS checks, especially if the contest is close. read more
I must confess. I haven’t done my part this year, but I did pretty good a year ago….I just haven’t identified a true need in my library…..
Is there a breakdown by state? I’d like to see how much of the increase is attributed to the nonsense in Virginia
willysgoatgruff JANUARY 6, 2020 AT 8:40 PM
How scary is it when you actually reach that point of “Do I really need anymore?”
Thought that was a fictional idea to never be contemplated.
Answerman Cooper JANUARY 6, 2020 AT 8:46 PM
Even in other states Virginia is going to drive much of the numbers.
Again I say “As of just as much or more importance, Primers, Powder, Brass and Bullets.”
No ammo and it’s nothing but scrap metal…
Gotta say they were pretty quick about it, too. 😉
Too many choices and I don’t want to draw anymore attention to myself through those NICS searches. I wish there was an easier way to buy from good people who are just looking to downsize.
Like a gun buddy app where you don’t have to worry about selling to someone with a record or getting mugged in a parking lot.
I know there are hoarders who have dozens of weapons and don’t want the hassle. If there was an easy way to do that, I’d by 5 more guns and/or rifles tomorrow.
I already have too many (that I lost when my safe fell into a Lovecraftian abyss)… but it would have been nice to trade some of the more useless stuff of the collection for more useful stuff.
It’s queer how one’s perceptions change with time and… becoming older. I’ve come to the point that industry takes precedence. Only my fool self of 2006 would have purchased a Ford Mustang. I should have bought a box of gold.
Why the hell did I own an EAA .45? Nice gun. But only AAHNOLD could conceal that huge piece of steel. I SHOULD have procured a tiny little pert .357 magnum that I could have carried in my suitcoat pocket.
Who was that, O Henry? Didn’t he make the statement that only cowboys and Police had holsters? Everybody else carried their revolvers in a coat pocket and fired through the pocket.
one of the reasons ‘background checks’ are so high is most States require them for ‘assault weapons’
… you know, the one’s defined as ‘having the capability to fire a round & look scary’
(sarcasm, but I think you get my point on the high #’s)
I dunno – do stripped lowers get counted as guns?