Courtesy Dean Weingarten, May 2020 NICS Posted on 06/07/2020 5:39:51 AM PDT by marktwain
The National Instant background Check System (NICS) numbers have been released for May, 2020. As expected, they are breaking records.
They are, at 3,066,740, the second-largest single month for NICS checks, ever, only exceeded by December, 2015.
The continuing, growing number of NICS checks for carry permits and carry permit rechecks, renders the total number of NICS less and less related to the total number of firearms sold.
The FBI allows access to a breakdown of what the checks are done for, by type of firearm purchased. By adding those numbers, we can obtain a good approximation of the total number of firearms sold. The formula used is checks done for Handguns + Long guns + Other + (2.5 times the number done for multiple firearms on one check) = total firearms sold.
In May, 2020, that was the highest number of firearms sold in the month of May ever recorded, about 1,580,341 firearms.Courtesy Dean Weingarten, May 2020 NICS
The total sold so far in 2020, according to the formula, has been right at eight million, within a reasonable margin of error. (7,978,582 is 99.97% of eight million).
Compare eight million firearms sold in the first five months of 2020, with the first and second record years of firearms added to the private stock in 2013 and 2016.
Firearms sold are not exactly the same as firearms added to the private stock, but the numbers are close.
In 2013, the total added for the year was 16 million and thirty thousand.
In 2016, the total added for the year was 16 million and 260 thousand.
We are far from halfway through 2020. If we continue firearm sales at this pace, the total added to the private stock for 2020 could break all records at more than 18 million.
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Of course, it is the insane opposition to President Trump which is actually driving gun sales.
People can see the left has lied to them about the utility of the Second Amendment for decades.
Four nights ago I suddenly realized I had very little 9mm on hand. It was a “Holy Cr@p!” moment to the max.
Got online to my favorite ammo sites and every last one said out of stock/backordered on 9mm.
Then....I was reading an FR thread about gun control and one commenter gave a website to another & said, “here, try this one”. I did and by golly, before I knew it I had scored 1,000 rds for not much more than the pre-COVID price.
Arrived yesterday. Now THAT’S surreal! But the peace of mind is very real.
People that live across the road, back up in a draw of two hills, dead ends back up there, they are all the time blasting away. Sounds like a military range up there. If shooting starts, I’m headed over there to team up with them. Lots of firepower up in that draw.
The time to get to know each other is now, not after a firefight starts.
You can feel them out about politics.
Most likely they are on the same page you are on.
I helped Ruger yesterday!
My thoughts exactly. A 1911 does as well.
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