NRA-ILA November 9, 2020
A record number of Americans have exercised one of the most important rights affirmed by the founders of this great nation: the right to keep and bear arms.
The FBI NICS office conducted
3,305,465 background checks last month – breaking the record for the month of October by nearly a million checks.
Each month in 2020 has broken the record for background checks in that month. October was the fifth busiest month ever for the NICS office, which has now run 32,131,914 NICS checks in 2020. We – the American people - broke the annual record last month; this year has now seen 13% more checks than the previous busiest year for the NICS office.
Thirty-two million background checks so far this year, and we haven’t seen Black Friday or holiday sales yet.
Not all of these checks are related to the sale of a firearm. Some may be related to the sale of multiple firearms and some are permit applications that result in the permit holder being able to lawfully acquire a firearm without a NICS check (as the permit itself involves a NICS check).
The FBI’s “
Year by State Type†report breaks out checks related to the sale of some categories of firearms. We’ve seen 9,955,762 checks related to the sale of a handgun this year and 5,560,682 related to the sale of a long gun, to go along with 706,924 checks in the “other†category that may include lower receivers. There were also 327,218 checks related to “multiple sales.â€
Nearly ten million handgun related checks have been run so far this year. No- saying “nearly ten million†seems like we’re overselling the number. Let’s describe it this way: the first 10 months of 2020 saw the record for handgun-related NICS checks broken by 1,870,264 checks.
More:
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20201109/2020-breaks-all-the-records
