With record gun sales this last year as police have been ordered to stand down and massive numbers of inmates have been released from jails and prisons, the importation of guns in 2020 also surged by about 60% over the previous year. With an estimated 22.8 million...
A record number of NICS background checks for purchasing guns was conducted in June. No previous June has come close, and there are only three previous months with more background checks (March, 2020; December, 2015; and December, 2012). Between 2015 and 2019, the...
In each of the last nine months of 2019 there was a record number of NICS checks, and January 2020 has set yet another record. The year 2019 had 28.4 million NICS checks, about 800,000 more than the previous record set in 2016.
This past Friday saw 203,086 background check requests for gun purchases, setting a new single-day record, the FBI reported Saturday. That is 9.4% higher than the previous record set last year and 15.6% over the number in 2014. The top three day records and four of...
Have you ever thought of letting someone else manage your finances? Under finalized new rules released just before Christmas by President Obama, Social Security recipients will be banned from buying a gun if they are deemed “financially incompetent.” Some 4.2...
Despite the election on November 8th, NICS checks in November 2016 where up 14.2% over the checks conducted during November last year. That is a bigger increase (both in absolute sales and percentage increase) than three of the last four months, though the increases...
You can compare these adjusted numbers to the official NICS numbers. This adjustment is significant -- the NICS numbers are 42.6% higher in 2013 than these adjusted numbers. But the numbers show similar changes in gun ownership over time. The adjusted numbers...
From Matt Stroud at the Associated Press: . . . John R. Lott, Jr., author of More Guns Less Crime, doesn't think Hunt's gun purchase indicates that gun regulations should change. He said studies consistently show that background checks don't reduce violent crime, but...