Background checks for regulated gun parts surging

By Christen Smith

Background checks for gun parts surged last month as the president signaled a willingness to increase regulations in the wake of several high-profile mass shootings.
Dealers submitted more than 68,000 applications to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System for transfers under the FBI’s “other” category in March — nearly doubling the rate recorded a year ago and spiking 45 percent in just one month.
The FBI defines the “other” category as referring to “frames, receivers and other firearms that are not either handguns or long guns (rifles or shotguns), such as firearms having a pistol grip that expel a shotgun shell.” The agency likewise breaks down applications by handguns, long guns and “multiple,” suggesting more than a single type of firearm transferred at once.
The only month in NICS history to record higher levels of “other” transfers came in December 2016, when dealers processed nearly 112,000 applications in the category, capping off the busiest year ever for background checks.
Last month’s surge impacted all categories with background checks totaling more 2.7 million — the busiest March since the FBI began keeping track in 1998.
Estimated gun sales — the sum total of transfers in the handgun, long gun, multiple and other categories — totaled

Source: Guns.com