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History: Most FBI background checks ever, 434M guns in America
washington examiner ^ | 12/1/2020 | Paul Bedard

Posted on 12/02/2020 8:33:42 AM PST by bitt

America’s recent election and the COVID-19 pandemic fueled a gun-buying binge that continued in November, making 2020 into the top year ever for firearms sales — by a country mile.

The FBI reported today that it recorded a 42% surge in background checks for firearms in November. Last month, it conducted 3.6 million. In November 2019, it was 2.5 million.

And already this year, the FBI has recorded 35.7 million background checks. In all of record-setting 2019, there were 28.3 million checks.

That means 2020 background checks for guns are already 25% over last year, and there is still a month to go. What’s more, Decembers have historically been the biggest month for firearms sales.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 434mguns; backgroundchecks; fbi

1 posted on 12/02/2020 8:33:42 AM PST by bitt
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2 posted on 12/02/2020 8:34:29 AM PST by bitt (The left gave us 4 years of Pearl Harbor. Now its time to give them Hiroshima.)
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3 posted on 12/02/2020 8:34:48 AM PST by bitt (The left gave us 4 years of Pearl Harbor. Now its time to give them Hiroshima.)
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I’d bet it is more than 434 million.
There are still lots of guns around from the turn of the last century.


4 posted on 12/02/2020 8:37:53 AM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents|Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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Biden is stealing the “Gun Salesman of the Century” award from Barry...and he isn’t even inaugurated yet.


5 posted on 12/02/2020 8:38:33 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom ("Inside Every Progressive Is A Totalitarian Screaming To Get Out" -- David Horowitz)
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Do they have enough professors willing to go confiscate them?


6 posted on 12/02/2020 8:39:57 AM PST by wildbill (The older I get, the less 'life in prison" means to me)
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He won’t be.


7 posted on 12/02/2020 8:40:06 AM PST by Dogbert41 (Proud member of the Poor Boy Gang. )
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Is that just guns sold after 1968? What about earlier before records were required? Back in the good old days of LIBERTY you could order through the mail and have one shipped to you, no questions asked.


8 posted on 12/02/2020 8:42:26 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Kamilla to her staff..."Don't eat the figs". (stolen from I Claudius))
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The number of gun sales are about 50% of background checks.

Almost half of background checks are for gun permits and permit rechecks.


9 posted on 12/02/2020 8:43:13 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries. )
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Just try to go buy a gun or ammo anywhere now. You might find some shotgun shells or some old oddball rifle ammo but nothing else. New guns?
Can’t find them in store or online.
The big ammo “bot” links show ammo and vendors but flesh it out to source and they are sold out.
No wonder, have you seen that walking skeleton that the media has all but inaugurated?


10 posted on 12/02/2020 8:50:01 AM PST by 9422WMR (Lie, cheat, steal. It’s how the democRATS operate. )
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I don’t have one of them ever since my 6 month old was being diapered on a changing table 45 degrees off from where I was dry firing and !BLAM! I had an accidental discharge. So when the Govt. 1 day starts cruising down the street with wall penetrating radar that can see exactly what you’ve got & where, they won’t be seeing anything in my house.


11 posted on 12/02/2020 8:52:04 AM PST by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
Back in the good old days of LIBERTY you could order through the mail and have one shipped to you, no questions asked.

You can still do that with black-powder firearms, but I get your point.

12 posted on 12/02/2020 9:07:57 AM PST by Disambiguator
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Keep in mind, it’s not just patriots buying guns and ammo, the enemy is too.

Yes, I said “enemy”


13 posted on 12/02/2020 9:16:36 AM PST by Graybeard58 (The China virus doesn't scare me, Venezuelaism does.)
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***No wonder, have you seen that walking skeleton that the media has all but inaugurated?***

In 1980, the news media declare Ronald Reagan to be too old to be President and were betting he would not last his first term. I believe it was Esquire Magazine had an illustration of a dead Reagan laying on an autopsy table.
Now they are throwing their weight behind a 78 year old senile codger as the greatest thing that has ever happened.

Bet commie Kamalla is chomping at the bit to take over! (See my tag line)


14 posted on 12/02/2020 9:17:58 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Kamilla to her staff (upon dethroning Biden)..."Don't eat the figs". (stolen from I Claudius))
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Good luck getting them back from people.


15 posted on 12/02/2020 9:26:00 AM PST by glimmerman70
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There is a shortage, I stocked up long ago, and I’m not buying guns or ammo for the moment. The more armed Americans, the better!


16 posted on 12/02/2020 10:55:06 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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Just try to go buy a gun or ammo anywhere now. You might find some shotgun shells or some old oddball rifle ammo but nothing else. New guns?
Can’t find them in store or online.
The big ammo “bot” links show ammo and vendors but flesh it out to source and they are sold out.


Still plenty of guns on Gunbroker. I just bought an M4. Ammo is a whole different story though. What you can get you will be paying 2-3 times more for it. My go to online supplier is Target Sports USA. Almost no ammo at all. However, I have been buying heavy over the last two years just in case.


17 posted on 12/02/2020 2:34:57 PM PST by Philsworld
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I've a Glock 37 for sale...Nearly new.

Of course it is a GAP .45...not a ACP .45.....The good thing is...ammo is very available.

Anyone here interested let me know..

18 posted on 12/02/2020 2:39:20 PM PST by Osage Orange (TRUMP!!!)
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