Lines are from 2021; Bars are from 2022 Posted on 09/18/2022 7:20:34 AM PDT by marktwain
The numbers for the National Instant Background Checks (NICS) and approximate gun sales are in for August of 2022. The month is the third highest on record for both NICS checks and gun sales. This has been a trend in 2022.
NICS Checks are reported as 2.45 million, while gun sales are approximately 1.24 million. This is 96 percent of what gun sales were in August of 2021 (1.29 million).
The most gun sales in August occurred in 2020, with 1.67 million. The fourth highest was in 2016, with 1.17 million.
Lines are from 2021; Bars are from 2022
Several million new gun owners have been added in 2020 and 2022. It is an imprecise figure. The National Shooting Sports Foundation, by using retail surveys, estimates 13. 8 million purchased a firearm or firearms for the first time in 2020 and 2021. It appears the trend has continued in 2022.
The ratio of NICS checks to gun sales has varied significantly. Relying on NICS checks alone can result in significant errors in gun sales estimates.
Fortunately, it is possible to dig down into the FBI-released figures for NICS and separate actual gun sales from the NICS checks. While those figures are not absolutely unambiguous, they are probably within a percent or two of the number of firearms purchased with NICS checks.
What is not revealed is how many are purchased using a previous NICS check. There are more than 20 million people in the United States who have carry permits. In half of the states, people with permits are not required to submit to the NICS system again once they have a valid permit. Those sales are not counted in the NICS system.
There is ambiguity about people who make their own guns. Those guns
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Nice to see people continuing to arm themselves and budgeting AROUND inflation and everything else Brandon is throwing at us!
For additional context, appropriately 4 million people turn 18 each year.
No doubt those nearly invisible ‘stochastic’ terrorist types. Are visa, master card and Amex helping track them? 😲😎✌
The left continues to call for more gun laws when gun owners are growing exponentially every year. I guess they’re relying on illegals and criminals for their vote.
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