(AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) In recent years, the FBI — which manages the system that vets gun buyers — processed an average of 8.6 million gun background checks annually, according to historical data analyzed by FiveThirtyEight. But last year, the bureau processed 12,761,328 background checks, according to FBI data obtainedRead More →
Posted 29 mins ago in Daily News, News by Luke C. with No CommentsTags: background checks, fbi, gun sales, NICS The numbers coming in from the FBI this month indicate that the current record for NICS Firearm Background Checks completely shatters every previous year going back to 1998 when recordsRead More →
Courtesy FBI Yawn. It’s no longer considered news that Americans continue to buy guns at a never-seen-before pace. We’ve been beating down the doors of gun stores since March due to the pandemic and then civil unrest (not to mention prisoner releases and the defund-the-police movement). Throw in the usualRead More →
Surprise! Americans still want every single firearm that gun makers can possibly turn out. But if you’ve been anywhere near a gun retailer in the last few months, you probably knew that already. The FBI published their NICS background check total for August yesterday. Now the NSSF has massaged theRead More →