Gun Boom: FBI Ran 187,585 Background Checks on Black Friday Alone

Breitbart ^ | 29 Nov 2021 | AWR HAWKINS

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The FBI conducted 187,585 National Instant Criminal Background System (NICS) checks on gun sales and transfers on Black Friday 2021 alone.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) reports the Black Friday 2021 NICS checks surpassed those of 2020, which came in at 186,645.

Moreover, NSSF noted that the FBI performed a total of 687,788 NICS checks during the entire week, including those on Black Friday.

NSSF president Joe Bartozzi commented on the tremendous number of background checks conducted last week:

This figure of over 687,000 background checks is truly remarkable. This year has already been shaping up to be the second strongest year for firearm sales on record, second only to 2020’s record-breaking number of 21 million background checks for a firearm sale. We anticipate, based on annual data, that firearm sales will rise during the final month of the year coinciding with hunting seasons and holiday sales. This figure, though, underscores the appetite for lawful firearm ownership in America and the resilience of the firearm and ammunition industry to meet that demand.

Background checks have been relatively high during 2021, with the number of NICS checks in October proving the be the second-highest number of checks ever for the month of October.

Breitbart News noted similar data for September 2021, which came in with the second-most NICS checks of any September in history.

There were 2,626,389 NICS checks conducted in September, second only to the 2,892,115 conducted in September 2020.

August 2021 and July 2021 both witnessed the second-highest number of NICS checks for their respective months as well.

[BipolarBob]

I’ve shot Tula and Wolf with no problems whatsoever.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Sellier and Bellot and PPU are both good ammo, too.

[Blood of Tyrants]

If you can afford a case. I stocked up years ago and will continue to do so when prices go back down.

[GreyHoundSailor]

I only do ARs - with the right jig it’s about a 2.5. Follow the directions and be patient. Have both drill press & router jigs but only use the latter. Great way to spend an afternoon.

[Dr. Franklin]

I gaze longingly upon the polymer 80 frame kits. I’m not that mechanically minded though. But I can follow simple instructions and have a drill press.

A block of aluminum should be more durable, but perhaps harder to drill out.

[BipolarBob]

Thanks. It seems like fun. I don’t really have a use for another firearm and my funds seems to be a little low lately (since about January with Bidenflation and all). But if things improve, I might give it a try.

[BipolarBob]

A block of aluminum should be more durable, but perhaps harder to drill out.

No more rounds than I put through one, I'm sure the polymer would be just fine.

[gundog]

Aluminum is no match for tool steel.

[Celtic Conservative]

Not entirely true. Red Army Standard and a few others source their ammo from countries other than Russia. It is coming from other former Warsaw pact countries like Poland, Ukraine and Serbia .

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[Big Red Badger]

It is a Travesty to find a firearm You would buy
and Not see the Ammo to
feed It.
I bought a 5 pack of Slugs
for a 20 gauge and I’m embarrassed at the price I
Paid.
Then Again it could get Worse with all that’s going
Down.
.
Prices May never get better

[DoodleBob]

[Gnome1949]

Considering each new firearm purchaser will buy two boxes of ammunition for their new firearm (assuming 50 rounds per box), That is almost 2 million rounds of ammunition bought ( or needed to be bought) on Black Friday.

No wonder ammunition manufacturers cannot keep up with demand !

Ammo manufacturers are running production 7 days a week and 24 hours per day yet one ammo CEO says they are dealing with an 18-month back-order problem.

The CEO moans about the growing quantity of his hate mail (from those demanding ammo). He also talks about angry people showing up at his factories demanding ammo.

[TigersEye]

The DemonRats have been pushing gun control for decades.
This is how it has been working out for them.

• The percentage of Americans who believe we have a right to own guns has increased.
• The number of guns owned per gun owner has increased.
• Rounds of ammunition possessed per gun owner has increased.
• Concealed carry laws have spread from state to state like wildfire.
• Castle Doctrine laws have been passed in numerous states.
• Stand Your Ground laws have been passed in many states.
• Gun rights lobbying groups have become a cottage industry.
• In the worst economy since the Great Depression the firearms industry can't keep up with orders or expand fast enough.
• 65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total 2/12/2013
• 46,455 Background Checks For Gun Purchases Each Day Under Obama 5/3/2013

And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)

• Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies 1/14/2013
• NRA membership has increased by 250,000. (Jan. 2013)

And it continues...

• NRA Surges to Record 5 Million Members (May 4, 2013)

And there is more...

• FBI Report: Early 2013 Crime Decrease Coincides with Gun Sales Boom

And more...

• FBI: March 2014 Was Biggest March in Gun Background Check History
  ...the raw data shows "2,488,842 total background checks
  were performed in March 2014."

And yet more...

• Gun sales spike in June (highest June sales since 1999) July 7, 2015
  Background checks for gun sales spiked 11% in June compared to last year, making it the busiest June ever,...

And more and more and...

• FBI data shows record number of September gun sales October 10, 2015
  FBI's National Instant Background Check System shows gun sales hit a record high for the fifth month in a row with 1,795,102 prospective gun owners processed in September.

We just keep buyin' more...

• Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row Sales for October 2015

And we bought more more more...

• Record for U.S. Gun Background Checks Set on Black Friday 12/3/2015

And more and more and more...

• 2015: The Year of the Gun (All time record number of background checks processed) 1/4/2016
  More than 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.

Could it be? More?

• July Gun Sales Crush Previous Record (2.2 million checks) 8/2/2016

More Americans buy more guns...

• October (2016) gun sales see massive spike, set yet another record 11/2/2016

We just love guns...

• Black Friday posts new single day record for gun checks at more than 200,000 Nov. 26, 2017

Buy a gun, you'll be in Hogg Heaven!

• 'Yuge' March for estimated gun sales April 3, 2018
  Applications submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System exceeded 2.7 million last month
  —
  the busiest March on record and the third highest ranking month since the FBI began keeping track in 1998.

Another month, another record!

• April Sets Gun Sales Record May 7, 2018
  The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) ran 2,233,213 checks in April, according to an FBI document.
  That's nearly 90,000 more checks than the previous April record set in 2016.
  It also represents the second month in a row to set a record with March seeing 2,767,699 checks.

• NRA is back, ‘highest ever’ membership!..... April 4, 2019

Will the record breaking ever stop?

• April 2019 National Instant Background Check (NICS) Number is new Record May 15, 2019

Looks like it will never stop.

• In Year Of Impeachment More Guns Were Bought Than Any Other Time in US History 2/18/2020

It will never stop. :)

• Biden’s COVID Relief Checks Help Spur Another Record Month of AR-15 Sales April 1 2021

Gun sales records AGAIN!

• New Study Delivers a Kill Shot to Another Anti-Gun Narrative ... during the COVID pandemic. Some nine million Americans became new gun owners.

Did somebody say "Boom?"

• Gun Boom: FBI Ran 187,585 Background Checks on Black Friday Alone 687,788 NICS checks during the entire week 11/29/2021

KEEP FLAPPIN' YOUR LIPS, DEMONRATS! WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)

[justme4now]

The 2nd is there to protect all of the other amendments.

We, as a nation have failed because we’ve given into the “government will take care of us!”

[gundog]

And David Chipman was shown the door when nominated to head ATF.

[TonyM]

“That amounts to arming more soldiers than each of 147 countries - in one day.“

The number of armed legal American citizens is growing rapidly and I don’t think that many are being bought for sport. If things keep going the way they have been there will eventually be a flashpoint where these armed patriots will finally decide enough is enough and begin the bloody process of retaking the country. That may be tomorrow, next month, or who knows wen but I don’t think it will be much longer. If dems try and stop the red wave next year by another lock down over fear of another Covid strain fraud it may happen then.

[centermass_socrates]

yeah, not getting any new in, but still some old stock around.

SGAmmo.com Great place to buy in bulk. Great shipping too.

[ZULU]

Those NAZI bastards can’t be trusted with information.

[LouAvul]

Not so fast. Long time collector here.

The surge can be directly attributed to stupid liberals realizing the utopias they created are, in fact, dangerous.

But since they are stupid/liberals, they can't make the connection with anarchy and their democrat policies.

The only up side to this is that it's giving gun manufacturers greater profitability, and that's good. Remington Arms has ramped up their ammo plant and that's been going 24/7. Not bad for a company that declared bankruptcy not long ago.

[COBOL2Java]

Maybe "Dr" Jill got Joe a Red Ryder for Christmas

Hope Joe doesn't put too many bullet holes in the Oval Office...