Posted on 02/28/2025 5:20:13 AM PST by marktwain
The National Instant Background Check System (NICS) firearm sales for January of 2025 are nearly the same as for January of 2024. The total firearm sales are less than one percent different from those in January of last year, as calculated by this correspondent. Last January, about 1.15 million firearm sales were recorded. January of 2025 showed about 1.16 million firearm sales. This is an increase of about .8%. Given the inherent inaccuracies within the data collection systems, the numbers are too close to claim a significant difference. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) numbers for adjusted firearm sales in January of 2025 show a .9% increase in sales from January of 2024.
There are differences between the calculations done by this correspondent and the calculations used by NSSF. From NSSF:
The adjusted NICS data were derived by subtracting out NICS purpose code permit checks and permit rechecks used by states for CCW permit application checks as well as checks on active CCW permit databases. NSSF started subtracting permit rechecks in February 2016.
This correspondent adds the firearm sales figures for handguns, long guns, and other firearms and 2.5X the number of multiple firearm sales recorded to reach an approximation of gun sales performed through the NICS system. This correspondent’s calculations are an approximation of total firearm sales performed through NICS.
The NSSF-adjusted firearm sales are arrived at by subtracting background checks done for things other than firearm sales. NSSF numbers tend to be slightly higher than the calculations done by this correspondent. Some background checks are done to retrieve gun sales from pawn shops. Those are included in the NSSF numbers, but not in this correspondent’s calculations.
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When people are afraid they buy more guns.
Over all I think people are less afraid now
Here in Austin, the protests will begin in earnest on March 4. I suspect that as the leftists and globalists lose more, the more desperate and violent they will become.
Doing MY part!
They’re trying to shut down gun sows in Colorado. They passed a bill that requires people that sell anything at gun shows to have an FFL. Sell beef jerky? Get an FFL. Totally unconstitutional but they don’t care. They take their orders from Bloomberg in NYC the asshole of the U.S.
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