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Posted on 04/03/2018 11:47:42 AM PDT by PROCON
Estimated gun sales eclipsed historic highs in March, according to federal data.
Applications submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System exceeded 2.7 million last month — the busiest March on record and the third highest ranking month since the FBI began keeping track in 1998.
Estimated gun sales — the sum total of transfers in the NICS’s handgun, long gun, multiple and other categories — totaled 1.4 million, an 11 percent spike over last year and 16 percent above 2016, the busiest year ever for background checks.
Dealers processed more than 781,000 applications for handguns and just under 541,000 applications for long guns last month — the most ever recorded for March.
NICS checks serve as a proxy measure for gun sales, albeit an imperfect one. Applications for concealed carry permits, periodic rechecks for maintaining licenses and a slew of smaller categories for pawns, redemptions, rentals and other rare situations undercut the total amount of checks processed in one month. Guns.com removes these categories from the total figure to more accurately assess actual transfers, though it’s still an estimate.
The sharp uptick follows six weeks of intense public debate about the role of stricter gun regulations in preventing mass shootings after a 19-year-old armed with an AR-15 murdered 17 people at his former high school in Parkland, Florida on Valentine’s Day.
Investigators later revealed the gunman — and his, at times debilitating, mental health issues — were well known to state and local authorities. A friend even tipped off the FBI six weeks before the shooting, concerned about the gunman’s violent tendencies and stockpile of firearms.
In response, the Florida Legislature adopted a package of reforms mandating a three-day waiting period on gun transactions and implementing age restrictions on rifle sales.
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Another interesting stat is how few of the “Nutty Shooters” has a father in the hoe.....
OOPS ! Not PC to mention that kin of fact.....
Bastards kill more than legit kids ??? Hu’d thunk that ?
LMAO!!
Article author Christen Smith must not be a FReeper. Everyone here knows that word is spelled Hugh.
Everyone here knows that word is spelled Hugh.
I think she was mimicking our President's use of that word. 😃😃
I predicted that he might surpass 0blahblah. lol
And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)
And it continues...
And there is more...
And more...
And yet more...
And more and more and...
We just keep buyin' more...
And we bought more more more...
And more and more and more...
Could it be? More?
More Americans buy more guns...
We just love guns...
Buy a gun, you'll be in Hogg Heaven!
KEEP FLAPPIN' YOUR LIPS, DEMOCRATS! WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)
2.7 Million background checks in one month.
2,008,895 total active duty, guard, and reserve troops in the U.S.
Pretty astounding numbers, more background checks for gun purchases in one month then there are troops. And that my friends is why we are still marginally a republic.
:)
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