Posted on 03/06/2023 3:20:24 AM PST by marktwain
In February of 2023, the number of gun sales and total National Instant background Check System (NICS) checks continue to be very close to the numbers from February of last year, 2022. The number of gun sales from 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 only varies by 8 percent from the lowest (1.24 million in 2020) to the highest (1.35 million in 2021). It appears the United States has reached a semi-stable level of gun sales close to what was an unprecedented record of sales in 2016. The number of gun sales for February of 2023 is 1.30 million.
Background checks, by themselves, show a misleading picture because of extremely high numbers of background checks done for other purposes, especially for gun permits and gun permit rechecks. Illinois and Kentucky do astounding levels of gun permit and gun permit rechecks. Both states check hundreds of thousands of the same people every month without any gun sales being made. This created very high NICS total checks in February of 2020 and 2021. In February of 2021, the permit and permit rechecks were 60% of the total national NICS checks.
The lines are from 2022. Bars are from 2023.
Then Illinois changed its policy by a revamp of the Illinois Firearms Owner IDentification (FOID). This dropped the NICS checks for Illinois by a significant amount. Permit and permit rechecks in February of 2023 were only 46% of the total background checks in the NICS system. In February of 2021, Illinois had over 846 thousand checks done for permits and permit rechecks, about 25% of total checks done for the United States for the month. In February of 2023, Illinois had over 372 thousand checks done for permits and permit rechecks,
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Background checks do not correlate well to gun sales.
Lines are from 2022. Bars are from 2023.
Kentucky’s numbers have always been massively out of wack because actual purchases were not distinguished from the state police 30 day review.
Having said that it is still the 6th most gun fruendly state in the country as long as the RINO’s in the legislature do not get duped by Democrats in Louisville who are desperately trying to find a loophole or an outright carveout/waiver from the state’s preemption law.
Yes. Kentucky checks all permits every 30 days, as I understand it. Last month, Kentucky permit rechecks were over 270 thousand. That was 10.8 percent of all NICS background checks in the United States for the month of February, 2023.
Gun sales in Kentucky for February were about 22 thousand, about 7.5% of the total NICS background checks done in February in Kentucky.
They are similarly arming themselves and that's going to bite us in the backside.
Without any effective law enforcement, America has become a DIY law enforcement theme park. It’s good to see those numbers going up. Americans have come to the realization that it’s time to defend themselves. No one else is going to do it. Matt Dillon has rode out of Dodge and off into the sunset.
Last that I heard, Oregon was backlogged a couple of months, due to the Measure 114 debacle. I presume that February’s sales reflect some guns bought in December.
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