July 2024 Continues NICS Gun Sales Over a Million a Month for 5 Years

AmmoLand ^ | August 13, 2024 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

The National Instant Background Check System (NICS), run by the FBI, shows July of 2024 is the fifth-highest July for both firearm sales and NICS background checks. According to the adjusted figures put out by the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), July of 2024 is the 60th month in a row where over a million firearms were sold in the month. NICS has recorded five straight years where over a million firearms were sold through the NICS system in the United States each month. The number of firearms over the five years has been much more than the 60 million indicated by “over a million” per month.

In the five years from August 2019 through July 2024, there have been nearly 86 million firearms sold through the NICS system, averaging about 17.3 million per year.

NSSF-Adjusted NICS Month of July – 25-Year History

NSSF-Adjusted NICS Annual Totals (in millions): 24-Year History

Firearm sales in the NICS system first topped 10 million in 2011. They soared to nearly 14 million as President Obama sought and gained a second term in 2012, dropping during the peaceful and prosperous years of the Trump presidency. In the election year of 2020, the all time record for firearm sales in a year was set at over 21 million firearm sales, many of them to new gun owners. NSSF estimates over 22 million people became new gun owners in the 2020s.

The best estimate of the private stock of firearms in the United States puts the number over 500 million privately owned firearms in the nation. The July firearm sales put the number at 510 million firearms

[marktwain]

People continue to purchase more than a million guns a month. July saw a slight uptick in sales (4%) above last July. It may have been due to the Trump Assassination attempt.

[rellic]

Best gun sales people are Democrat politicians.

[eastexsteve]

What they are not telling you is where these guns are being sold. I bet it's mostly in the southern states.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

[dhs12345]

Yet people continue to vote for the party that is hell bent on taking away our guns.

[mosaicwolf]

It appears many US citizens have finally realized they can’t vote their way out of this mess much longer.

[dhs12345]

Maybe people are realizing after the 2020 summer of love and the mostly peaceful protests, that the government will not
be there to protect you.

The police will be too late to the scene or the government will look the other way while the rioters burn down your business or murder you.

[TermLimits4All]

So base on camel toe comments saying we have the lowest crime rate in decades it’s obvious then guns aren’t the problem.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The US military, National Guard, Police number about 2,500,000 men.
VS.
20,000,000 civilian semi-auto rifle owners, and maybe 75 million other firearm owners, (add a million more a month) and over 400,000,000 firearms out there. 250,000,000 high cap magazines in private hands.

And the government thinks they can “regulate” that?

[marktwain]

The Old Media have done their best to convince voters "Guns are Bad". They have failed.

The harder they pushed, the harder the push back. There are more firearms per capita today than at any other time in history. This is partly because they are cheaper and better than ever before, because of technology (in constant dollars, or in labor), but also because the government has become more meddlesome and less protective than in quite a while.

Because the powers that be (Deep state, Media, Academia and administrative state)no longer control the narrative, they are pushed into more active measures, which informs and educates more people as to how tyrannical they have become.

[LouAvul]

That’s all well and good. But I still cannot find a ‘68/69’ vintage mint condition Colt Python with 3 inch barrel. I’ll give any you’se guys 10 crisp $100 bills for one.

[eastexsteve]

It appears many US citizens have finally realized they can’t vote their way out of this mess much longer.

You're going to have to do more than just buy the gun if you plan on using it to get out of this mess.

[eastexsteve]

The US military, National Guard, Police number about 2,500,000 men. VS. 20,000,000 civilian semi-auto rifle owners, and maybe 75 million other firearm owners, (add a million more a month) and over 400,000,000 firearms out there. 250,000,000 high cap magazines in private hands.

And the government thinks they can “regulate” that?

They did it in England and Australia.

[marktwain]

They did it in England and Australia.

Both England and Australia had tiny minorities of gun owners, less than 5% of the population.

George Soros saw the number of gun owners was increasing in Australia. He did all he could to keep Australian gun owners from growing in numbers. He was fairly successful. There are about as many today, as there used to be, but they are extremely regulated, to the point of insanity.

The USA has over 30%, maybe as much as 50% of the population.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***They did it in England and Australia. ***

Those people had to register their guns with the government. Confiscation was easy. Inventory your guns to make sure there is no paper trail to you. Trade off those that do to other private citizens.

[eastexsteve]

The USA has over 30%, maybe as much as 50% of the population.

They will be easy to deal with. They will let the IRS deal with it like they did mandatory health insurance. Register or turn in your guns, or get fined. Or, they will just pass laws keeping you from working like did with the covid vaccine. Then, when the number of holdouts is down around 5 percent, they will go door-to-door and confiscate the rest, and pay the neighbors for ratting them out.