Posted on 07/07/2020 4:07:14 AM PDT by COBOL2Java
The number of background checks run by the FBI has surpassed 3 million in a month four times. Three of those times have been this year. There have been 38% more checks in January through June of this year than during the same time period last year, and we have already hit 67% of the total number of checks run last year.
Last year, you may recall, was the busiest year for the NICS office, for now. To break that record for checks in a year, the FBI would need to conduct about nine million more checks in the second half of 2020.
Or, about three-quarters of a million fewer checks than were run from April through June.
We have been regularly covering the monthly records set by NICS every month this year. Let’s compare June to March 2020, which was the previous record month for the highest number of background checks. March had the all-time busiest week for the NICS office and two additional top 10 highest weeks. This was driven, in part, by five individual days in March that are among the top 10 busiest days.
June 2020, the new record holder, is different. No individual day in June cracked the top 10 for highest number of background checks for a single day. Every single week in June is a top-six highest week.
This indicates a sustained level of demand for permits and firearms – this was no overnight reaction to an event or last-minute purchases before Christmas.
It was millions of Americans making the choice to keep and bear arms. The gun-owning community is growing, with millions of first-time buyers.
And just what arms are these millions of Americans choosing? Last month saw the second-most background checks related to a handgun purchase all-time (including a small number in U.S. territories) – 1,371,811 to be precise.
The annual record for handgun sales-related checks is just over 8 million. So far this year, the FBI NICS office has run just over 6 million such checks.
There were 611,997 checks for permits last month. A historical comparison is not possible due to the way some states conducted and reported permit checks in the past, but an eyeball test indicates that June is right up there among the monthly leaders. Oh, and don’t forget – there are 24 states in which a valid permit is accepted in lieu of a NICS check. Firearms sales to permit holders in such states are not included in the NICS tally.
The numbers don’t lie. This isn’t a small group of “super gun owners” buying nearly fifty thousand handguns a day. These are your loved ones, your friends, your neighbors who have decided – for one reason or another – that they must be able to rely on themselves.
The National Rifle Association of America is the organization that these gun owners can rely on to protect their rights, as we have for almost 150 years.
We will not waver.
Judging by the NICS reports for 2020, neither will law-abiding Americans.
Since the start of the rioting our store has been selling 200+ guns a day.
I’m going in today for another day of endless line of customers waiting 1-2 hours to get to the counter.
They accepted my payment and began the processing. A couple days later I got an email from them asking me to call. Turns out that, even though the day I ordered, its web page showed 15 available, by the time they got to processing my order they were sold out. >:-0
They profusely apologized and gave me a complete refund. I went to a Bass Pro Shops near me and purchased a Ruger SP 101. I really like my online vendor, but as they say, business is business.
Lots of folks been having to order things and wait for them to come in? That might account for the purchases being spread out...the stores are empty.
Oh yeah. The walls are practically empty at my local gun shop. My friend who works there says they're flying out the door. He smiles and says he enjoys the outrage from liberals who are shocked to discover they can’t just walk out of the store with a gun.
No, no, no...not in Maryland, pal. In Maryland:
Then, with HQL in hand,
Favorite gun shop is DCF Guns in Castle Rock, Colorado. At least their advertising is VERY conservative. Always ripping the Dems and liberals a new one.
But “gun crime” is way down, isn’t it?
At this point ordering and waiting will take a lot of patience. The distributers have distributed their inventory.
Most people are choosing to buy from what we have, we are still getting guns in, sometimes just a few and sometimes cases at a time.
They’re going out as fast as they come in, though.
Have plenty of $1200 and up 1911s, CZs and Berettas.
Most of this round of buying are newbies who never had wanted a gun before and are looking for something under $500, we can’t keep those in stock.
The only SP101 we have left is one 4.2” with adjustable sight, $779.
Bud’s has good prices, if you have somebody with a reasonable transfer fee.
BiMatt had plenty of sub-$500 handguns the last time that I looked. Almost all 9mm, and very little 9mm ammo. (Oregon coast.) I think most folks around here learned their lesson from the Obama years.
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