NICS: April 2023 3rd Highest Gun Sales & Background Checks for the Month

AmmoLand ^ | May 24, 2023 | Dean Weingarten

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The National Instant background Check System (NICS), run by the FBI, shows April of 2023 was the third highest number of gun sales for April on record, a slight increase from April of 2022.

The estimate for April 2023 is 1.34 million gun sales. The estimate for April 2022 was 1.32 million gun sales. The number of background checks done in April of 2023 is also in third place, at about 2.86 million background checks done on the NICS system in April of 2023, compared to about 2.73 million done in April of 2022. Gun sales have consistently been over a million a month since August of 2019.

In the last 45 months, ending on April 30, 2023, there have been about 67.5 million firearms sold through the National Instant background Check System (NICS).

Gun sales have been consistently over a million firearms a month for the entire period. Approximately one-eighth of gun sales recorded by NICS appear to be a re-sale of a firearm already in the private stock of firearms in the United States of America. After adjusting for this, the number of private firearms in the USA is very close to 495 million at the end of April, 2023.

This correspondent predicts the private stock of firearms in the USA will be over 500 million before the end of 2023.

After 2016, the USA appears to have reset gun sales to a new normal. According to estimates from the National Shooting Sports Foundation and the State of California, new gun owners more than make up for the loss of members of the gun culture due to death. From William English’s 2021 survey of gun ownership in the USA, there are approximately 81.4 million adults who are willing to admit to gun ownership in an online survey.

[marktwain]

There are probably over a hundred million gun owners in the United States. The number is growing with many minorities and women joining the cadre of gun owning Americans.

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Bars are numbers by type of firearm in 2023. Lines are numbers by type of firearm in 2022.

[Libloather]

Going to a gun show this weekend. Very excited.

[Deplorable American1776]

The gun grabbers are so sad that Americans are buying guns.