July Gun Sales Crush Previous Record (2.2 million checks)

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[Red in Blue PA]

The number of gun-related background checks performed in July far exceeded those of any previous July, newly released numbers from the FBI show.

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, processed nearly 2.2 million checks last month. That represents an increase of almost 600,000 checks over the previous record set last year. It is also an increase of more than a million checks over July 2011.

The July record is the latest in a string of 15 record-setting months for firearm background checks. July also saw an increase over June’s numbers as the gun industry’s seasonal lull comes to an end.

This calendar year, with more than 16 million checks on record thus far, remains on pace to break the NICS check record for a single year set in 2015.

[The Toll]

I’ve never seen a 1911 fail to fire that wasn’t a Kimber. Sorry to say.

[AFreeBird]

And the ATF is illegally keeping info they shouldn’t.

Not that it should matter. It should only serve to explain how very much they are out numbered.

[Red in Blue PA]

Indeed. Pick up all of the 33 round Glock mags you can now. Buy em cheap and stack em deep.

[Red in Blue PA]

I am a Sig guy and had some issues with my P238 not feeding properly; one for the reasons I went to Glock for my carry guns.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Woo-Hooooo! Beau and I are two of MILLIONS of Patriots! Does my heart good to see this. He’s bought a number of firearms this year and a boatload of ammo; I’ve bought an additional one for my arsenal....bought my ammo when on sale (or when I could FIND it) in previous years. Slow and steady when on a budget. ;)

Happy to help the cause, and MORE than ready to water the Tree of Liberty!

FUBO! FUHRC!

[Big Red Badger]

I had a Stovepipe once,

[Fitzy_888]

As I’ve said here a few times, statistically:

Every time a sworn peace officer (local, state or federal) cashes a bi-weekly pay check a private citizen buys a gun.

I can readily display this statistically.

Speaks to confidence -the lack there of!

[Lurker]

Kimbers are tight out of the box. Put 500 rounds through it and it will eat anything.

We own two.

L

[TigersEye]

The DemoRats have been pushing for gun control for decades.
This is how it has been working out for them.

• The percentage of Americans who own guns has increased.
• The percentage of Americans who believe we have a right to own guns has increased.
• The number of guns owned per gun owner has increased.
• The amount of ammunition possessed per gun owner has increased.
• Concealed carry laws have spread from state to state like wildfire.
• Castle Doctrine laws have been passed in numerous states.
• Stand Your Ground laws have been passed in many states.
• Gun rights lobbying groups have become a cottage industry.
• In the worst economy since the Great Depression the firearms industry can't keep up with orders or expand fast enough.
• 65.4 Million Guns Bought Since Obama Took Office, 91% More Than Bush's First-Term Total 2/12/2013
• 46,455 Background Checks For Gun Purchases Each Day Under Obama 5/3/2013

And in the last two months... (Nov. 2012 and Dec. 2012)

• Americans Buy Enough Guns in Last Two Months to Outfit the Entire Chinese and Indian Armies 1/14/2013
• NRA membership has increased by 250,000. (Jan. 2013)

And it continues...

• NRA Surges to Record 5 Million Members (May 4, 2013)

And there is more...

• FBI Report: Early 2013 Crime Decrease Coincides with Gun Sales Boom

And more...

• FBI: March 2014 Was Biggest March in Gun Background Check History
  ...the raw data shows "2,488,842 total background checks
  were performed in March 2014."

And yet more...

• Gun sales spike in June (highest June sales since 1999) July 7, 2015
  Background checks for gun sales spiked 11% in June compared to last year, making it the busiest June ever,...

And more and more and...

• FBI data shows record number of September gun sales October 10, 2015
  FBI's National Instant Background Check System shows gun sales hit a record high for the fifth month in a row with 1,795,102 prospective gun owners processed in September.

We just keep buyin' more...

• Gun Sales Set Record for Sixth Month in a Row Sales for October 2015

And we bought more more more...

• Record for U.S. Gun Background Checks Set on Black Friday 12/3/2015

And more and more and more...

• 2015: The Year of the Gun (All time record number of background checks processed) 1/4/2016
  More than 23 million checks were processed through the National Instant Background Check System in 2015, an all-time record.

KEEP FLAPPIN' YOUR LIPS, DEMOCRATS! WE'LL BUY MILLIONS MORE. ;-)

[Jack Hydrazine]

Make him firearms salesman of the millenium!

[PubliusMM]

I’ve been shooting Chas Daly 1911’s for many years, and only one issue with one of them...a broken extractor, less than a full mag through it. Laid that off to a defective extractor. Replaced it, and haven’t had a problem with it since then.

Love them. Range shooter, carry gun, camping gun...just a good all around firearm.

[bkopto]

This calendar year, with more than 16 million checks on record thus far, remains on pace to break the NICS check record for a single year set in 2015.

That's a whole lotta guns Ruth Buzzi Ginzberg will have to collect (if The Witch is elected and subsequently stacks the Supreme Court with gun haters).

[VRWCarea51]

You can thank those numbers on the queers.
They realized after the nightclub shooting their Fairy King luvs terrorists more than queers.

[Roman_War_Criminal]

IMHO, 1911’s are possibly the best handgun ever made.

Unfortunately they don’t have the mag capacity - but if you’re good, you don’t really need it. ;)