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The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and FBI coordinate to track the gun purchases of specific individuals through the federal background check system, according to documents that Second Amendment advocacy group Gun Owners of America obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request. Shared exclusively with the Epoch Times, the documents include communications in which ATF agents request the monitoring of specific gun purchasers by means of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) in a system the FBI dubs the "NICS Monitoring Services." Federal agents, at the behest of the ATF, then manually check the...

The December 2022 National Instant Background Check (NICS) firearm sales and background checks were the fourth highest on record for the month. Firearm sales and background checks are not well correlated, because of the significant use of background checks for other purposes, particularly for carry permits and carry permit rechecks. There were about 3 million NICS background checks in December of 2022, slightly less than the 3.1 million NICS background checks in December of 2021. The estimated number of firearm sales in December of 2022 was 1.72 million. The estimated number of firearm sales in December of 2021 was 1.76...

November of 2022 had the second-highest number of National Instant background Check System checks for November. Only November of 2020 had a higher number. The number of gun sales for November was the fourth highest on record, with about 1.49 million gun sales. Last year, 2021, edged out this year with 1.51 million sales, while 2020 had 1.92 million sales and 2016 had 1.62 million sales, as estimated using the FBI figures for gun sales from the NICS system. In NICS, there are categories for long guns, handguns, other guns, and multiple gun sales. The estimate of sales for the...

The National Instant background Check System (NICS) numbers for October, 2022, are the third highest on record. The gun sales recorded by NICS for October, 2022 are the fourth highest on record. This shows the trend of gun sales is softening a bit. Suppose potential gun buyers perceive greater stability in national and international affairs. In that case, if potential gun purchasers perceive the threat of gun restrictions to have decreased because of the election and Supreme Court and lower court restrictions, sales will likely decrease.The number of NICS checks in October 2022 was down by 6 percent from October...

Samuel Stebbins writes for 24/7 Wall St and several other left-leaning organizations such as the NYTs, HuffPost, and MSN. Mr. Stebbins has written a number of articles involving guns, crime, and statistics. The numbers he cites are usually correct. They are from sources such as the FBI Uniform Crime Reports.Unfortunately, it is easy to make errors if you do not understand how the numbers are generated. It appears to be the reason for the laughable numbers in Samuel’s most recent article claiming “Gun Sales are Collapsing in Illinois.” In Illinois, gun sales are falling even faster than they are nationwide....

The numbers for the National Instant Background Checks (NICS) and approximate gun sales are in for August of 2022. The month is the third highest on record for both NICS checks and gun sales. This has been a trend in 2022. NICS Checks are reported as 2.45 million, while gun sales are approximately 1.24 million. This is 96 percent of what gun sales were in August of 2021 (1.29 million).The most gun sales in August occurred in 2020, with 1.67 million. The fourth highest was in 2016, with 1.17 million.Lines are from 2021; Bars are from 2022 Several million new...

While they might not be the super records of years past, guns and overall firearms sales are still going through the roof. According to newly released FBI data, background checks exceeded 2.51 million in August, which was consistent with the previous two summers. However, Small Arms Analytics & Forecasting (SAAF) estimates August 2022 U.S. firearms unit sales were at about 1.4 million units, a year-over-year decrease of 3.8 percent relative to August 2021. The decrease affected the handgun segment (−2.7 percent) significantly less than it did the long-gun segment (−7.2 percent). SAAF’s firearms unit sales estimates and forecasts are based...

Gun sales and National Instant background Check System checks fell slightly in July 2022. The Supreme Court decision in the NYSR&PA v Bruen case robustly protected Second Amendment rights. As expected, gun sales dropped slightly in July 2022. The gun sales in July were about 1.19 million, about a five percent drop from the 1.25 million in July of 2021 and 2.7% lower than July of 2016, making 2022 the fourth highest July for gun sales on record. NICS checks total were at 2.4 million, the third highest July on record. That is a 17% drop from NICS checks in...

The National Instant background Check System (NICS) checks continued the trend of being the third-highest June on record, while gun sales jumped to the second-highest June on record. The drop in NICS checks by almost 500,000 from last June occurred primarily because of the reform of the Firearms Owner IDentification card system in Illinois. Illinois checks and rechecks for permits dropped by over 400 thousand.At the same time, gun sales (always an approximation because of the way the NICS system operates) were up by about 8% to 1.35 million. It is far from the record for June set in 2020...

May of 2022 continues the trend for 2022 to be the third-highest year for firearm sales. The month is the fourth-highest for NICS checks on record. The record year was 2020. The second-highest year was 2021. 2022 is headed to be the third-highest year on record for firearm sales. The fourth highest year for firearm sales was 2016. The third highest year for May NICS checks was 2019. May of 2022 was the fourth-highest for total NICS checks.Handgun sales continue as 58% of all gun sales. Long gun sales are 32% of the total sales; with multiple sales of guns...

Read more: https://www.ammoland.com/2022/05/manufacture-of-firearms-up-300-since-2000/#ixzz7TkGsSi2m Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Follow us: @Ammoland on Twitter | Ammoland on Facebook According to a report released Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), the number of guns manufactured has steadily increased over the past 20 years. The report released Tuesday by the Bureau tracked the manufacture and importation of firearms since 1986. The manufacture of guns remained steady from 1986 to 2000. Each of these years showed that around three million firearms were produced. In the same period, the importation of firearms rose from 701,000 to 1,096,782. After 2001, the gun industry saw...

The National Instant background Check System (NICS) numbers and gun sales for April of 2022 are in. They reveal a consistent trend of gun sales which are the third-highest for the month on record. In April about 1.31 million more private firearms were added to the private stock in the United States. The previous records for April were in 2021 with 1.67 million sold; 2020, with 1.65 million sold, and in third place, 2016 with 1.07 million sold.Lines are for 2021 numbers, bars are for 2022 2022 is now in the third-place position. It appears there is a “new normal”...

March 2022 firearm sales and National Instant background Check System (NICS) checks done by the FBI are both the third-highest on record. The NICS system started record-keeping in 1998. There are 24 years of data for March. The 2022 firearm sales and NICS checks are starting to show a trend of the third-highest after 2020 and 2021. In March of 2022, firearm sales were about 1.62 million. In March 2020 they were 2.37 million. In March 2021, they were about 2.0 million. The next highest March was in 2013, with about 1.47 million firearm sales.The NICS checks for March 2022...

February of 2022 was the third highest February for gun sales since the National Instant background Check System (NICS) started in 1998. It was the fourth-highest number of NICS checks done during the month of February. Only 46 percent of the National Instant background Check System checks were for carry permits and carry permit rechecks in February of 2022. In February of 2021, the carry permits and permit rechecks were about 60 percent of total NICS checks.Lines are from 2021. Bars are in 2022. The change seems related to the implementation of a reformed FOID card system in Illinois. Public...

Second Amendment supporters are scrambling to stop the gun control passages buried in the text of the latest Washington “omnibus” spending bill, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives and then sadly passed the U.S. Senate to advance to the desk of Joe Biden’s White House handlers. A major pro-Second Amendment advocacy group is leading the charge to highlight the buried gun control passages in the more than $1.5 trillion bill. The bill reportedly finances the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) to facilitate a big Democrat cause: using local law enforcement to enforce the gun-grabbing laws of the...

The January 2022 National Instant background Check System checks report is out and gun sales have dropped significantly from those in January 2021. In January 2021, the NICS checks were over 4.3 million. In January 2022, they were over 2.0 million. Gun sales fell from over two million in January of 2021 to over 1.15 million in 2022. In the historical context of NICS numbers, these are still high. January NICS checks did not break 1 million until after the election of President Barack Obama in November of 2008. January 2009 NICS checks were over 1.2 million.On a quick survey...

2021 has become the second-highest year for firearm sales after the record set in 2020 In November of 2021, there were about 1.51 million firearm sales conducted through the National Instant background Check System (NICS) and 2.69 million NICS checks. November of 2021 was the third-highest November for gun sales and total NICS background checks since NICS was started in 1998.There were about .758 million checks for handguns, .629 million checks for long guns, almost 55 thousand checks for “other” which might be handguns, long guns, or simple firearms, and often applies to receivers which have not yet been assembled...

The FBI conducted 187,585 National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS) checks on gun sales and transfers on Black Friday 2021 alone.The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reports the Black Friday 2021 NICS checks surpassed those of 2020, which came in at 186,645.Moreover, NSSF noted that the FBI performed a total of 687,788 NICS checks during the entire week, including those on Black Friday.NSSF president Joe Bartozzi commented on the tremendous number of background checks conducted last week:This figure of over 687,000 background checks is truly remarkable. This year has already been shaping up to be the second strongest year for...

As has become the norm for 2021, October gun sales in 2021 were the second-highest on record. Less commonly, the total NICS background checks were also the second-highest October on record. There is a significant difference between the NICS checks and gun sales. Gun sales have been running at about half of NICS checks for a while, but in October, they were 54% NICS checks. What seems to have happened is permit and permit rechecks have fallen off a bit. In October, the number of gun sales, calculated as handguns + long guns + other guns + 2.5 x multiple...

Gun sales in 2021 are close to being higher than any year but one, with two months left to go, according to newly released data. Over 1.4 million background checks were carried out by the FBI for gun sales in October, according to an analysis of bureau figures by the National Sports Shooting Foundation, a group that represents gun manufacturers. The FBI publishes monthly instant background check data and the group separates out requests pertaining to permits and permit rechecks. he FBI reported conducting nearly 2.6 million checks in October. “Background checks for gun sales continue to be strong and...