2016 Shaping Up to Be Biggest Gun Sales Year on Record

By Dean Weingarten

This year is on its way to being a record year for U.S. firearm sales. In the first two months of 2016, gun buyers and concealed carry permit applicants set records for the number of times gun dealers and state governments pinged the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). In January . . .

the FBI processed 2,545,802 NICS checks. That number easily surpassed the previous total: January of 2013’s 2,495,440 NICS checks. Both years eclipse the next highest January NICS total: 2015’s 1,772,794. The top two records are associated with President Obama’s highly publicised pushes for additional gun control.

Gun buyers and permit applicants propelled February 2016 to an even higher record: 2,613,074 NICS checks. In the history of the NICS system, only two months top that total: December 2012 (2,783,765) and December 2015 (3,314,594).

Last year, 2015, generated the highest ever number of FBI instant background checks for a year: 23,141,970. In the first 60 days of 2016, the FBI has run 5,158,87 checks. As 2016 is both a presidential election year and a leap year, firearms sales and concealed carry permits could well reach a historic high.

NICS checks correlate with an increase in private firearms stocks. In 2013, …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns