April 2019 National Instant Background Check (NICS) Number is new Record

Ammoland ^ | 15 May, 2019 | Dean Weingarten

[marktwain]

In April 2019, the National Instant Background Check System, (NICS), recorded the highest number of background checks for April. There were 2,334,249 NICS checks in April 2019.

It is important to note many of the background checks done by the FBI in the NICS system are for state carry permits of various kinds. In the NICS statistics kept by the FBI, there are categories for NICS permit checks and permit rechecks. The popularity of gun carry permits at the state level has resulted in more than half of all NICS checks being carried out for the purposes of permits and permit rechecks.

The NICS permit checks in April of 2019 were 817,967. The permit rechecks for April of 2019 were 494,527. The total permit and permit rechecks were 1,312,494. The total non-permit background checks were 1,021,715.

The NICS permit checks for April of 2018 were 926,928. The permit rechecks for the same month were 193,194. Together they totaled 1,120,192 in April of 2018. The total NICS checks for April of 2018, the last record April, were 2,223,213.

The increase of total NICS checks from April of 2018 to April of 2019 was 111,036.

The increase in carry permit and permit rechecks was 192,302. Thus, while NICS checks overall were a record, the number of permits and permit rechecks are growing so fast they mask a slight drop in NICS checks for gun sales.

[marktwain]

NICS checks are very high, but much of the increase is in checks for permits and permit rechecks.

[Lurkinanloomin]

I work three days a week in a gun shop.
Business is still very good.

[Taxman]

NCIS is +1 more as of an hour ago!

Picked up an AR pattern .300 BLK; rifles can now be used to take deer where I hunt in 2019. The .300 BLK will be an ideal deer rifle for that area.

[Beagle8U]

What is a 300 BLK?

[momincombatboots]

My leftist colleagues are suddenly buying weapons.. what are you really seeing? Thnx

[Lurkinanloomin]

Unfortunately I am seeing that.

[momincombatboots]

I had leftist nutjobs asking me about weapons late 2016. This trend is not something to celebrate. Something is up. More Soros regime change?

[IYAS9YAS]

What is a 300 BLK?

.30 caliber round derived from the 5.56 (.223 caliber) NATO round.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.300_AAC_Blackout

In a nutshell, they shortened a 5.56 NATO shell casing, and increased the neck size to accommodate a .30 caliber bullet.

[Beagle8U]

OK, I looked up the .300 BLK and they aren’t legal for deer hunting in MI southern zone. I’ll have to stick with the Ruger 77/44 mag.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Sales are still 3-1 in our favor by my estimation.

[Beagle8U]

The .300 BLK isn’t legal for deer in Michigan’s southern zone, but .450 Bushmaster is. Go figger.

[Luke21]

I am entirely satisfied with the check system. No problems at all when I bought my latest “friend.” No libs in sight either.

[momincombatboots]

I hope that is good news, but their sudden interest struck me as odd and I wouldn’t help train them. So if it’s 3 to 1.. how many of our 3 were already gun owners, compared to the left who are first time buyers.
I hope you and I are just paranoid , but somehow, I don’t think so... historically speaking.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Most of the ones on our side are adding to the collection, the leftys are starting out with one.
Most of them don’t know the first thing about guns.
They buy the cheap stuff.

[OSHA]

Try the 6.8 SPC II. It's what an AR should have been instead of 5.56.

I love the one I got recently. Of course it is not as cheap to shoot so I naturally had to get a 556/223 to plink with.

[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 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.

Could it be? More?

• July Gun Sales Crush Previous Record (2.2 million checks) 8/2/2016

More Americans buy more guns...

• October (2016) gun sales see massive spike, set yet another record 11/2/2016

We just love guns...

• Black Friday posts new single day record for gun checks at more than 200,000 Nov. 26, 2017

Buy a gun, you'll be in Hogg Heaven!

• 'Yuge' March for estimated gun sales April 3, 2018
  Applications submitted to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System exceeded 2.7 million last month
  —
  the busiest March on record and the third highest ranking month since the FBI began keeping track in 1998.

Another month, another record!

• April Sets Gun Sales Record May 7, 2018
  The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) ran 2,233,213 checks in April, according to an FBI document.
  That's nearly 90,000 more checks than the previous April record set in 2016.
  It also represents the second month in a row to set a record with March seeing 2,767,699 checks.

• NRA is back, ‘highest ever’ membership!..... April 4, 2019

Will the record breaking ever stop?

• April 2019 National Instant Background Check (NICS) Number is new Record May 15, 2019

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

[familyop]

"Sales are still 3-1 in our favor by my estimation."

Yes. Many of the lefties are on drugs and/or have criminal histories. That's why so many of them focus more on knives or liability dogs.

[Beagle8U]

“Try the 6.8 SPC II”

That wouldn’t be legal in the southern MI shotgun zone. Only straight walled pistol cartridges 35 cal or larger.

“The ammunition for the rifles must have a minimum case length of 1.16 and a maximum case length of 1.80 inches.
Examples of firearms now legal for the southern part of the state include, but are not limited to, a .357 Magnum, .44 Magnum, .45 Colt, .450 Bushmaster, and .460 S&W.
“People have been asking for this for years and the change in rules allows people to have and use one gun,” Westra said. “They don’t have to have one gun for down here and another for up north.
“It made sense to make it easier for the hunters.”
Westra said the rifle allowance opens up hunting to a wider group of southern Michigan outdoor enthusiasts. Hunting backers have long said the power of a shotgun’s recoil limited the ability of some youth, women and senior citizens to enjoy the recreational activity. “

http://blog.mlive.com/sponsored/2016/11/changes_to_michigan_firearm_la.html

[Taxman]

I hunt in Hanover county, VA. Just went legal for 2018 season, but I was not able to hunt last year.

[Taxman]

PS Your Ruger will do very nicely!