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String of Record Breaking Gun Sales Ends with May 2021: NICS Numbers
AmmoLand ^
| 12 June, 2021
| Dean Weingarten
Posted on 06/14/2021 5:05:58 AM PDT by marktwain
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Courtesy Dean Weingarten and David Scott
U.S.A. –-(AmmoLand.com)- NICS numbers for May broke the string of record setting National Instant background Check System (NICS) checks which started in August of 2019. The number of NICS checks broke records for each month starting August of 2019 until May of this year, 2021, for 21 months of record gun sales!
Such a string could not continue forever. There are only so many resources, so many people to buy guns and be checked for carry permits. It has been the carry permits and permit rechecks that have driven the NICS system checks so high.
In May of 2021, only 41.3 percent of background checks were for firearm sales. 58.8% of the checks were for permits and permit rechecks. Permit and permit rechecks for Illinois alone were 30.0% of the total number of NICS checks for May 2021.
When NICS was created in 1998, there was no consideration of one state submitting 30% of all NICS background checks for permit checks and rechecks.
Gun sales in Illinois, which are extraordinarily hampered by the Illinois FOID system, were less than 3% of those of the United States total.
The population of Illinois is about 4% of the population of the United States, down a bit from previous years. The total number of firearm sales done through the NICS system was about 1.32 million in May of 2021. An 18% decrease from the record set in May of 2020, is still historically high.
The panic buying with coincided with concerns about the election of President Biden, a radical left Democrat Congress (albeit by the most narrow of margins), and promises of extreme gun restrictions, has faded.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunsales; may; nics
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To: marktwain
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posted on
06/14/2021 10:38:57 AM PDT
by
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posted on
06/14/2021 10:44:23 AM PDT
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Magnum44
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: marktwain
472,000,000 that we know of.
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posted on
06/14/2021 11:42:59 AM PDT
by
wastedyears
(The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
To: marktwain
I did not buy a gun last month, didn’t contribute to this record. Will have to make up for this month.
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posted on
06/14/2021 2:02:26 PM PDT
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Reno89519
(Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
To: Pollster1
You still can’t find hunting ammo.
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posted on
06/14/2021 2:13:44 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
To: marktwain
Buy more, folks. Buy more.
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posted on
06/14/2021 5:41:11 PM PDT
by
joma89
(Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
True, but at least things are moving in the right direction.
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posted on
06/15/2021 3:10:33 AM PDT
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Pollster1
(America is no longer in Claire Wolfe's "awkward stage")
To: BipolarBob
Before the run-up on ammo, I could buy 50rds 9mm FMJ for $12. I recently bought 100rds 9mm FMJ at $50, which is the best price I’ve seen in this market. This price is still too high for someone on a fixed income and who likes to shoot hundreds of rounds at the range.
To: JesusIsLord
Keep looking for cheap prices. LuckyGunner, AmmoSeek, Outdoor Limited, Grab-a-Gun and others advertise prices and they are coming down. $12 for 50 rds. may not ever come back with inflation and govt. threats.
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posted on
06/15/2021 6:50:39 AM PDT
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BipolarBob
(Who is John Galt and is he vaccinated?)
To: BipolarBob
Keep looking for cheap prices. LuckyGunner, AmmoSeek, Outdoor Limited, Grab-a-Gun ...Will do. Thanks!
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