NICS Checks: 1 Million Firearms Sold in a Month is the New Normal Posted on 06/14/2023 3:57:50 AM PDT by marktwain
The NICS (National Instant Background Check System) numbers for May of 2023 show the month to be a very close fourth-highest May for gun sales and the third-highest May for the NICS FBI run background checks.
The estimate for gun sales in May comes to a little over 1.13 million estimated as recorded sold through the NICS system. Last year, in May, there were a little less than 1.14 million guns estimated as being recorded as sold through the NICS system. The number of guns sold in May of 2023 is 99.6% of the number sold in May of 2022.
These are estimates because some gun sales are recorded as “multiple.” The number of guns sold as multiple on one 4473 form is estimated as 2.5 x the number of multiple sales forms recorded.NICS Checks: 1 Million Firearms Sold in a Month is the New Normal
In May, where we know whether the firearm was a long gun or a handgun, 64% were handguns. 90% of gun sales are either long guns or handguns, and 10% are listed as other or multiple.
Firearm sales have topped a million firearms since August 2019. NICS went active in the last two months of 1998. Our best estimate for the number of firearms in the United States in 1998 is 256 million firearms. In the first ten years of NICS use, the number of privately owned firearms increased by 52 million to 308 million. In the next decade, the number increased by 97 million to 405 million.
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At least one million gun sales per month is the new normal.
About half of the private stock has been produced in the last 25 years.
The gun sales in May, 2023 were nearly identical to the gun sales in May, 2022.
80% in May was Hunter.
Wonder which states most are coming from
Easy to understand. When a gun gets older it goes stale, so you need to buy a new one. But even older stale guns are nice... sort of nostalgic. So you keep the old gun too.
My thoughts as well.
If someone wanted to raise an army...
Antifa? A couple thousand of your friends that snuck across the border?
The blueprints for many guns are available online. I wonder how many underground gun mills there are? Cartels specifically could buy a few machines and start mass producing guns.
A lot of guns are hand made and laundered in Puerto Rico. Take a hot gun from the US, disassemble into parts. Remove serial numbers. Start assembling “new” clean guns.
GOOD
This may be the only thing holding back an “in your face total tyranny” right now. I would think that many guns gives even the elite powers a few concerns.
I thought Obama was the top salesman.
Need one in each caliber....just to be sure.
He still is...
He is...this is Team Obama’s 3rd term.
Month after month, the gun grabbers’ job gets harder and harder...
People need to start buying ammo and reloading supplies. That’s where the government goons are trying to hit.
bkmk
In 2021 Texas sold the most followed by Florida, and California coming in at #3. PA was #4.
Nice! :)
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