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Armslist is a national advertising medium for gun and accessories sales. It is much like Craigslist but focused on guns. AmmoLand was able to have an extended conversation with the owner and founder of Armslist, Jon Gibbon. Jon came up with the idea for Armslist when he saw how little gun stores were offering customers for used guns when he was a college student. Because many online advertising platforms discriminate against firearms advertising and sales, Gibbon believed a platform that featured advertising for firearms and accessories could make money. The economies of scale and the intrinsic efficiency of using digital...

The National Instant Background Check System (NICS) firearm sales for January of 2025 are nearly the same as for January of 2024. The total firearm sales are less than one percent different from those in January of last year, as calculated by this correspondent. Last January, about 1.15 million firearm sales were recorded. January of 2025 showed about 1.16 million firearm sales. This is an increase of about .8%. Given the inherent inaccuracies within the data collection systems, the numbers are too close to claim a significant difference. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) numbers for adjusted firearm sales in...

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris sure can pick winners in their quest to cut deals in foreign policy. After freeing notorious Russian arms trafficking kingpin Viktor Bout in exchange for U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who had been sentenced to a draconian prison term in Russia on a minor drug violation, which was about the most lopsided trade imaginable, we can see what kind of deal that was from this pair of gullible fools who gave away the store. Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the “Merchant of Death,” walked out of a U.S. jail almost two years...

After the unsuccessful assassination attempt on former President and current presidential front-runner Donald Trump in July of 2024, both firearm sales and National Instant Background Check System (NICS) checks have increased for August. The absolute NICS check numbers increased by 5%. The estimated increase in firearm sales was 9%. Both numbers are the fifth highest year for August, as shown in the NICS records. July 2024 saw an increase in gun sales of 5% over 2023. August has nearly doubled that increase. Gun sales are estimated because the NICS numbers contain background checks for other things than gun sales, particularly...

After 2024 monthly gun sales — as measured by adjusted NICS data — trailing 2023 for most of the year, they started to accelerate in July and jumped even more in August. The may be due, at least in part, to the impending election. Americans tend to hedge their bets every four years by stocking up on firearms and related gear. And then there’s the general state of society that seems to have an increasing number of people concerned about self-defense. As the NSSF’s Mark Oliva tells us . . . The horrific crimes committed by a disturbed youth in...

The number of National Instant Background Check System (NICS) checks and estimated gun sales show little change from 2023. In February 2024, the number of gun sales was 99.7% of what they were in February of 2023. Total estimated gun sales in February of 2024 are 1.29 million. In February 2023, they were 1.29 million.There was a sales difference of about 4,000 between the two months. This makes February 2024 the fifth-highest February for gun sales recorded in the NICS system and the sixth-highest February for total background checks done. The numbers for the various types of gun sales recorded...

The January 2024 National Instant Background Check System (NICS) shows the number of guns sold for the month is very close to the average for the last ten years. From 2015 through 2024, the number of guns sold in January varied from .98 million in 2018 to 2.02 million in 2021. The average was 1.21 million. The 2024 number is 1.15 million. This is a 5.8% decrease from gun sales in January of 2023. Background check numbers varied more than gun sales, from 1.77 million in 2015 to 4.32 million in 2021.The number of background checks does not correlate well...

The number of gun sales estimated using the National Instant Background Check System, or NICS, for December of 2023 was about 1.74 million guns. This was the fourth-highest number of gun sales for December in the NICS system. The number of background checks was about 2.73 million. This was the sixth-highest December for NICS background checks.December showed a slight drop in the trend for 2023 but is maintaining what has become the new normal of gun sales, which arguably started in 2011 when annual sales passed the 10 million mark.2023 had the fourth-highest total for gun sales of any year...

The gun sales and National Instant Background Check System (NICS) checks continue the trend in 2023 of the third or fourth highest month on record and the ongoing trend of over a million guns sold during the month. The National Shooting Sports Foundation has reported gun sales, as estimated by NICS, have been over 1 million a month for 52 months. Gun sales during November 2023 were about 1.56 million firearms. NICS checks for the month were about 2.65 million, making them the third-highest gun sales for November and the fourth-highest NICS checks.Gun sales in November of 2021 were 1.51...

As expected in last month’s article, gun sales increased in October. According to the figures released by the FBI National Instant Background Check System (NICS), gun sales were about 1.33 million for October 2023, roughly a nine percent increase over the gun sales figures for October 2022. 1.33 million gun sales make October 2023 the third-highest October for gun sales. Checks done in the NICS system in October 2023 were about 2.26 million, making October 2023 the sixth-highest number of checks done in October since the first October in the system was recorded in 1999. The number of gun sales...

Gun sales and National Instant Background Check System (NICS) numbers for September of 2023 continue the trend of being the fifth highest for the month. The first full year of NICS records is for 1999. The history of NICS now covers the last 25 years. NICS checks were recorded at 2,104,825 for September of 2023. Gun sales for September are estimated at 1.09 million. NICS does not track gun sales directly. Multiple gun sales can be done with one background check. 25 states have permit systems that can be used instead of a separate background check. Background checks are done...

The numbers of National Instant Background Checks (NICS) done by the FBI for August of 2023, and the estimated gun sales derived from those checks, are the fifth highest on record for August since records started being kept.The number of checks done by the FBI was about 2.14 million in August of 2023. The number of gun sales was estimated at 1.06 million, just .27% higher than the estimate for 2019. The gun sales in 2016 were higher, about 1.17 million.We are seeing a leveling off of gun sales at the new, higher base level of over a million a...

Some of the most radical changes proposed in the new ATF rule are to completely redefine “personal collection,” “personal collection of firearms,” “personal firearms collection,” and “hobby.” Three of the long-term exceptions to “engaged in the business” have been:a person who makes occasional sales, exchanges, or purchases of firearms for the enhancement of a personal collection or for a hobby, or who sells all or part of his personal collection of firearms;Personal collection of firearms has long meant “the firearms owned by a person.”None of the wording of those exceptions was changed by the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act or BSCA,...

Gun sales across the United States reached over 1 million for 49 consecutive months, according to new data even as the Biden administration tries to crack down on firearms. The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System showed just over 2 million federal background checks occurred in August 2023. When the figure was adjusted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation to more accurately reflect likely retail firearms sales, that number decreased to nearly 1.12 million checks last month, according to Guns.com. "This has happened every month for more than four years continuously," Mark Oliva, the foundation's public affairs officer, said.

The National Instant Background Check System (NICS) shows another slide in gun sales and background checks for July of 2023. According to calculations, gun sales for July 2023 have dropped 17.8% from July 2022. The NICS total background checks declined by about 16.8% from July 2022. July 2023 comes in fifth for total gun sales of all July numbers since 1999 and sixth in NICS background check numbers since 1999, which was the start of the NICS system.The number of gun sales calculated for the month is nearly a million. The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) released its estimates for...

Those politicians who want to eliminate the Second Amendment, which holds that Americans have the constitutional right to keep and bear arms, have a long road ahead of them. That's because gun sales in American have not even paused, surpassing 48 million over four years. July, in fact, marked the 48th straight month in which gun sales passed the one million mark. The Washington Examiner. reported a just-released FBI study showed likely sales of firearms in July totaled 1,023,903. "July 2023 marks the 48th month in a row, 4 years, that has exceeded 1 million adjusted background checks in a...

A dramatic decrease in the level of firearms sales through the National Instant Background Check System (NICS ) occurred in June 2023. Monthly firearm sales in 2023 have been the third or fourth highest of the 25 years recorded in the FBI NICS records. In June 2023, the adjusted sales dropped 21% from the 2022 figures. The number of gun sales in June of 2022 was about 1.35 million. In June of 2023, it was about 1.06 million. Despite the drop in gun sales, the month continued the trend of over a million gun sales each month for the past...

The NICS (National Instant Background Check System) numbers for May of 2023 show the month to be a very close fourth-highest May for gun sales and the third-highest May for the NICS FBI run background checks. The estimate for gun sales in May comes to a little over 1.13 million estimated as recorded sold through the NICS system. Last year, in May, there were a little less than 1.14 million guns estimated as being recorded as sold through the NICS system. The number of guns sold in May of 2023 is 99.6% of the number sold in May of 2022.These...

Walmart’s website opens with photos of mothers and children shopping, weekly specials on daily necessities, and — for those who click on the “Our Company” link and dig a little deeper — an unabashed admission Walmart has been videoing every gun sale in its stores. The “Our Company” tab shifts the website to Walmart’s corporate page, from whence one can peruse various pages, one of which sets forth Walmart’s policy for “Responsible Firearm Sales.” On the “Responsible Firearm Sales” page, Walmart says, in part: In 2018, we made the decision to raise the minimum age to purchase firearms and ammunition...

In February of 2023, the number of gun sales and total National Instant background Check System (NICS) checks continue to be very close to the numbers from February of last year, 2022. The number of gun sales from 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023 only varies by 8 percent from the lowest (1.24 million in 2020) to the highest (1.35 million in 2021). It appears the United States has reached a semi-stable level of gun sales close to what was an unprecedented record of sales in 2016. The number of gun sales for February of 2023 is 1.30 million.Background checks, by...