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The government’s ban preventing firearm dealers from selling handguns to people that reside in other states is unconstitutional. The ban has no historical support and cannot be justified under Supreme Court precedent.
The National Instant Background Check System numbers were slightly down for December 2024. About 15 million guns were sold in 2024, bringing the total number of guns in the United States private stock to 518 million.
The National Instant background Check System (NICS)numbers for November of 2024 show November continuing the trend toward the fifth highest year for gun sales. Gun sales were the sixth highest on the record. They were almost equal to the fifth highest, in 2022. NICS checks were the fifth highest on record.
Both gun sales and NICS checks were the fifth highest recorded for the month of October, a consistent theme in 2024.
Gun sales and NICS background checks for September of 2024 are the fifth highest on record. Gun sales are likely to climb in October, November and December.
The National Instant Background Check System numbers are in for August of 2024. Check numbers and firearm sale are both higher than they were last August.
July 2024 marks the 60th consecutive month where over a million firearms were sold a month in the United States.
NICS numbers for June of 2024 show the month to be number six in firearm sales and NICS checks. Sales continue at over one million a month.
May 2024 continues the trend noted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation of gun sales of over a million a month for the last 58 months.
Rep. Thomas Masse (R-KY) confronted Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) Director Steve Dettelbach over the government agency asking federal firearms licensees (FFL) in border states to report cash transactions.
Ruger Takes the Lead. In 2022, Ruger manufactured over 1.56 million firearms, securing its position as the largest firearm manufacturer in the USA.
The National Instant background Check System shows the numbers for gun sales and background checks in April of 2024 are the fifth highest April on record.
2023’s stellar finish didn’t push the year’s sales ahead of the previous year but brought it awfully close. December semi-automatic handgun sales exceeded those in 2022 for the same time period.
About 1.74 million gun sales were indicated by the NICS System in December of 2023. About 15.3 million guns were sold with NICS background checks in 2023, making 2023 the fourth-highest year on record.
National Instant Background Check System gun sales and background checks continue the trend for 2023. Gun sales numbers are the third highest for November.
With the 12.01 million firearm sales in October of 2023, the private stock of firearms in the United States has reached half a billion.
The number of checks done by the FBI was about 2.14 million in August of 2023. The number of gun sales was estimated at 1.06 million, just .27% higher than the estimate for 2019.
April of 2022 NICS gun sales numbers are the third highest April on record, continuing the trend. A new normal for gun sales appears to have been established.
Gun sales and National Instant background Check System (NICS) checks for March of 2022 are the third highest in 24 years of NICS records.
The NICS information for February of 2022 shows the 3rd highest February for gun sales and the 4th highest February for NICS instant background checks. Illinois checks are reduced by legislation.
January 2022 NICS numbers and gun sales have dropped significantly from 2021 levels. They are still the third-highest January on record.
December 2021 National Instant background Checks (NICS) are the second-highest December on record, and the third highest for gun sales. 2021 is the second highest year for gun sales, after 2020.
The total number of gun purchases rose from 13.8 million to 16.6 million between 2019 and 2020. Approximately half of all new gun owners were female and nearly half were people of color.
2021 is now the second-highest year on record for gun sales. November 2021 gun sales, as measured by NICS background checks, are the third-highest November on record, putting 2021 in second place.
Gun sales in October of 2021 continue the trend to make 2021 the second-highest year for gun sales in United States history. FBI NICS checks are at historic levels.
Following the trend for 2021, gun sales in September are the second highest for the month in the history of NICS. The trend is for 2021 to be the second highest year ever.
The times are uncertain. A rising power (China) threatens world stability. The leadership of the dominant power (the USA) seems feckless, hesitant, and incompetent…
July 2021 was the second-highest total July for National Instant background Check System (NICS) checks on record.
The number of NICS checks broke records for each month starting August of 2019 until May of this year, 2021, for 21 months of record gun sales!
Thirty-five percent of American gun owners “say someone in the household has purchased a gun within the past year,” according to a new Rasmussen survey.
