NICS for June 2024 Sixth Highest Year for Gun Sales & Background Checks

AmmoLand ^ | July 15, 2024 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

National Instant Background Check System (NICS) numbers show firearm sales for June of 2024 were down five percent from 2023. They are still over 1 million for the month. According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, this is the 59th month of over one million sales a month. If July sales are over a million, it will be five complete years of over a million firearm sales a month. May, June, and July are traditionally the lowest months for firearms sales during the year, although the pattern is not absolute. Specific events can increase firearms sales. The assassination attempt, which came so close to ending former president and likely future president Donald Trump’s life, is such an event.

There may well likely be a bump up in firearm sales for July of 2024. Firearm prices are at historical lows to facilitate the bump.

AmmoLand recently published a special on Plumbcrazy complete lower receivers for the popular AR-15 type firearms at only $65.99 each. Add a Bear Creek Arsenal complete upper, chambered for .223, on sale for only $215.60, and you have a fully capable AR-15 rifle, sans sights or magazines, for under $300, including shipping, but not transfer fees or sales tax. A capable rifle for nearly all uses, from hunting to home defense or militia duty, all for about a week’s pay at minimum wage. Perfectly serviceable personal defensive pistols are showing similar deals. Several 9mm models are available under $300. Solid .22 rifles can be had for $100 on sale, with .22 revolvers at about the same and .22 semi-auto pistols at $200 – $300 on sale.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; nics; sales

[marktwain]

Gun sales have fallen from last year. They are on a level with the new normal set by the greatest gun salesman ever, President Barack Obama.

[cdcdawg]

There’s a meme that I wish I had saved. To the effect that “on the outside, I seem fine; on the inside, I want to buy another gun.”

Actually, we need ammo and range time more than anything. The wife and I are swapping handguns. She can’t pull the slide back on hers (admittedly, it’s a bit stiff). My suggestion that she get stronger went over about as expected.

[marktwain]

[Yo-Yo]

Only sixth highest?

C’mon, people, get out there and buy, buy buy!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I remember 1970 or 1971, The Denver Post had an article in it’s Sunday magazine about the evils of the US made SATURDAY NIGHT SPECIAL handgun!
Foreign imports of such had been banned from the US with the 1968 gun control law. It said basically all handguns that cost less than $45 were Saturday Night Specials. For an illustration it showed a Ruger Mk II. That would be $364 today.

And you could get a brand new in box Winchester 1894 rifle for $45 back then.

[dljordan]

” My suggestion that she get stronger went over about as expected.”

Very smooth you Romeo. :)

[moovova]

Still, it shows that people are either scared or getting prepared, or maybe both.

[riverrunner]

Those buy back programs are working so well :)