Posted on 10/06/2022 7:40:28 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) points to FBI background check figures to show that over one million guns have been sold in America every month for the past 38 months.
FBI figures show there were 2,470,462 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks performed in the month of September. Mark Olivia, the NSSF’s managing director of public affairs, indicates that 1.2 million of the NICS checks were specifically for gun sales.
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Pretty sure there are a lot of them being bought by the “left”.
What that does not cover bis those in states like TX that where a CHL is your background check. I buy a new gun and they just write down mt CHL number.
I wonder if it accounts for multiple gun purchases on a single NICS check.
That’s not what the far left white supremacists in the “national media” are reporting. They’re saying nobody is buying guns anymore. Friggin’ clowns.
Or Estate sales...
Private transfers...
All kinds of cash deals without a Brady check happen.
Yeah, it’s a pretty dynamic market. I don’t see how you can glean too much from the single figure. Gun owners die, people turn 18....new guns enter the system through NICS, but most sold are probably used guns.
That we know about.
So does anybody still wonder why ammunition is scarce?
LOL - yeah, it was a revelation how many people other than me want the stuff. Dang it.
I'll help! I need a couple more guns.
Joe Biden: Smith & Wesson Salesman of the Year two years running!!!
Ammo is everywhere...except the prices have not decreased too much since panic buying.
“I wonder if it accounts for multiple gun purchases on a single NICS check.”
Not necessarily.
If more than one handgun is being sold pursuant to a single NICS check, the dealer is required to file a separate ATF form. The same form must be filed if the same individual purchases another handgun within a specified time (three business days, or something). The purpose is agency notification, not request for permission to sell.
No such reporting requirement applies to sales of long guns.
The only way that NICS system operators might infer that sale of more than one gun is requested, is if the the dealer gives a response of “BOTH” (handgun and long gun) to the NICS query concerning “Type of Firearm”.
All these details apply to sales by federally licensed dealers in compliance with federal law. States and various smaller entities sometimes apply further restrictions.
Regulatory agencies and rights-advocacy organizations like NSSF apply various statistical “corrections” and “adjustments” to the raw monthly totals of NICS checks, to arrive at an estimate of numbers of guns actually sold. What percentage is new vs used is yet another guess. The general sense of things is that sales of new guns have been rising for the past several years. So has the percentage of first-time buyers.
Well....the make snd serial number of each gun will be passed along
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