Posted October 9, 2019 12:06 pm by Comments

By Dean Weingarten

NICS Checks Continue High in August and September of 2019

Opinion

NICS Background Checks Continue High in August and September of 2019

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- The National Instant background Check System, (NICS) hit record high levels in August 2019, for both total numbers and numbers of estimated sales after carry permit and permit rechecks were subtracted.

In September 2019, while the totals remain at record levels, the estimated sales fell to 88% of the record set in 2016.

In August, after permit and permit rechecks are subtracted from the total NICS checks, 1,239,014 remain. In 2016, following the same procedure, there were 1,229,022. The 2019 number is about 10,000 more than the record set in 2016.

These numbers are not precise numbers of sales, for several reasons.

The numbers of NICS checks done for carry permits and carry permit rechecks have risen to over half of all NICS checks in recent years. People with carry permits can purchase firearms, using their permit as the background check (the permit already had a check done when it was issued) in 25 states. The total numbers are skewed by Illinois and Kentucky, which do hundreds of thousands of permit rechecks every month.

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Source:: AmmoLand

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