NICS Numbers and Gun Sales for August 2023, Fifth Highest on Record

AmmoLand ^ | September 20, 2023 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The numbers of National Instant Background Checks (NICS) done by the FBI for August of 2023, and the estimated gun sales derived from those checks, are the fifth highest on record for August since records started being kept.

The number of checks done by the FBI was about 2.14 million in August of 2023. The number of gun sales was estimated at 1.06 million, just .27% higher than the estimate for 2019. The gun sales in 2016 were higher, about 1.17 million.

We are seeing a leveling off of gun sales at the new, higher base level of over a million a month. There are about 14 million gun sales per year, on average, for the last five years. Because a significant number of gun sales are of some of the nearly 500 million guns in circulation, the number of firearms added to the private stock in the United States is about 12 million a year, or about 60 million from 2018 through 2022. This year should add close to another 12 million, with the stock well over 500 million by the end of the year.NICS Numbers and Gun Sales for August 2023, Fifth Highest on Record

The number of gun sales increased significantly during and since 2008. Two significant events occurred in 2008, both of which have contributed to incentives to purchase and increased firearms sales.

In 2008, Senator Barack Obama, the most successful gun salesman in history, was elected President of the United States. His ability to foster racial division, turmoil, and a profound distrust of American government and institutions has been unparalleled.

[marktwain]

Firearm sales have reached a new baseline of over 1 million a month. Ausgust, 2023 NICS Checks and Gun Sales were the fifth highest August numbers on record.

[cyclotic]

I can’t help for august but I did my part for September.

[gundog]

Let’s see if Kamala can pump these numbers up.

[marktwain]

Lines are numbers for 2022. Bars are numbers for 2023.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Very few people wanted an ugly rifle in the 1970s until Mel Tappan wrote his book on survival guns. Then the government moved to ban them. Suddenly everyone wanted one, or two, or more!

From a few thousand owners in the 1970s we now have over 25 million owners of such rifles.

[Lurker]

I’m done buying guns for a while.

Now it’s ammo and components.

L

[digger48]

I stocked up the year Barry sashayed into the Oval Office

He had a prevailing wage contract that year and every bit of that above my normal rate went to guns, ammo and a big new safe

[digger48]

“We”

Not he

Dammit

[Bounced2X]

When one just isn't enough. ;O)

[Organic Panic]

Raise your hand if you think the FBI and ATF are not keeping a registry of all these gun sales?

Anyone?

[Organic Panic]

And anyone with mechanical aptitude, a drill press, and a few hours can make a receiver sans registration. But I would never recommend that because the government wants your guns registered for your own protection.

[Organic Panic]

First. Exactly. Who needs a TV in that room...

Two. Why would you want carpet though?

[Deaf Smith]

>>but I did my part

You should have also been following BLOAT for the past few years.

[Bounced2X]

First. Exactly. Who needs a TV in that room...
Two. Why would you want carpet though?

1.) Binge watch John Wayne movies & episodes of The Rifleman in a conducive atmosphere?
2.) Concession to a gunner wife whose into interior design?

[thescourged1]

Firearm sales have gone up. Have been going up. Numbers of military-age males crossing our border have gone up. Have been going up.

Who are buying all these firearms? Straw-buyers working for the feds and creating caches? Won't need traceable annoyances like purchase orders doing it this way.

Have I been watching too much TV?

[Big Red Badger]

Ssßsshhhh,,,
You didn’t get the memo...

[suthener]

I’m doing my part. Just ordered this for my son’s birthday:

CZ-USA Hammer Coach Side by Side Shotgun 12 Gauge 20” Barrels 2 Rounds 3” Chambers Case Hardened Frame Walnut Stock Blued 06130 [FC-806703061306]

Don’t criticize. It’s what he wanted. He bought himself a Colt Anaconda a couple weeks ago. He loves the retro stuff.

[Seaplaner]

I'm most interested in the numbers of new gun owners, new women gun owners, and new minority gun owners. Such important and otherwise vulnerable demographics.

May all gun buyers be legal owners and get competent training, observe safe practices over all and train frequently at the range.

[TigersEye]

The DemonRats have been pushing gun control for decades.
This is how it has been working out for them.

• The percentage of Americans who believe we have a right to own guns has increased.
• The number of guns owned per gun owner has increased.
• Rounds of ammunition possessed per gun owner has increased.
• Concealed carry laws have spread from state to state like wildfire.
• Castle Doctrine laws have been passed in numerous states.
• Stand Your Ground laws have been passed in many states.
• Gun rights lobbying groups have become a cottage industry.
• In the worst economy since the Great Depression the firearms industry can't keep up with orders or expand fast enough.
• 65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total 2/12/2013
• 46,455 Background Checks For Gun Purchases Each Day Under Obama 5/3/2013

And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)

• Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies 1/14/2013
• NRA membership has increased by 250,000. (Jan. 2013)

And it continues...

• NRA Surges to Record 5 Million Members (May 4, 2013)

And there is more...

• FBI Report: Early 2013 Crime Decrease Coincides with Gun Sales Boom

And more...

• FBI: March 2014 Was Biggest March in Gun Background Check History
  ...the raw data shows "2,488,842 total background checks
  were performed in March 2014."

And yet more...

• Gun sales spike in June (highest June sales since 1999) July 7, 2015
  Background checks for gun sales spiked 11% in June compared to last year, making it the busiest June ever,...

And more and more and...

• FBI data shows record number of September gun sales October 10, 2015
  FBI's National Instant Background Check System shows gun sales hit a record high for the fifth month in a row with 1,795,102 prospective gun owners processed in September.

We just keep buyin' more...

• Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row Sales for October 2015

And we bought more more more...

• Record for U.S. Gun Background Checks Set on Black Friday 12/3/2015

And more and more and more...

• 2015: The Year of the Gun (All time record number of background checks processed) 1/4/2016
  More than 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.

Could it be? More?

• July Gun Sales Crush Previous Record (2.2 million checks) 8/2/2016

More Americans buy more guns...

• October (2016) gun sales see massive spike, set yet another record 11/2/2016

We just love guns...

• Black Friday posts new single day record for gun checks at more than 200,000 Nov. 26, 2017

Buy a gun, you'll be in Hogg Heaven!

• 'Yuge' March for estimated gun sales April 3, 2018
  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.

Another month, another record!

• April Sets Gun Sales Record May 7, 2018
  The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) ran 2,233,213 checks in April, according to an FBI document.
  That's nearly 90,000 more checks than the previous April record set in 2016.
  It also represents the second month in a row to set a record with March seeing 2,767,699 checks.

• NRA is back, ‘highest ever’ membership!..... April 4, 2019

Will the record breaking ever stop?

• April 2019 National Instant Background Check (NICS) Number is new Record May 15, 2019

Looks like it will never stop.

• In Year Of Impeachment More Guns Were Bought Than Any Other Time in US History 2/18/2020

It will never stop. :)

• Biden’s COVID Relief Checks Help Spur Another Record Month of AR-15 Sales April 1 2021

Gun sales records AGAIN!

• New Study Delivers a Kill Shot to Another Anti-Gun Narrative ... during the COVID pandemic. Some nine million Americans became new gun owners.

Did somebody say "Boom?"

• Gun Boom: FBI Ran 187,585 Background Checks on Black Friday Alone 687,788 NICS checks during the entire week 11/29/2021

Reaffirming what we all know to be right.

• Supreme Court makes 'momentous' Second Amendment ruling (video 14:24) Jun 23, 2022 - New York State Rifle & Pistol Association, Inc. v. Bruen

If we buy anymore guns the continent might flip over.

• 37 Months Straight: America Is Buying 1 Million Guns A Month 19fortyfive.com 9/2/2022

• Top Guns: Americans Purchased These Firearms The Most In 2022 2/21/2023
  According to National Shooting Sports Foundation, the 2022 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) totaled 16.4 million.

• NICS Numbers and Gun Sales for August 2023, Fifth Highest on Record AmmoLand ^ | September 20, 2023 | Dean Weingarten
  The number of checks done by the FBI was about 2.14 million in August of 2023.
  The number of gun sales was estimated at 1.06 million, just .27% higher than the estimate for 2019.
  The gun sales in 2016 were higher, about 1.17 million.

KEEP FLAPPIN' YOUR LIPS, DEMONRATS! WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)

[gundog]

During one of the Obama panics, I saw an old Olympic Arms AR at a gun show. Really wonky cast receiver, with a lot of slop between upper snd lower. They wanted a lot for it.