NICS Firearm Checks Up For Month Of February

By Tom Knighton

While gun grabbers are screaming that Americans are tired of guns and so new regulations simply must be put in place, we have numerous reports of gun stores and gun shows being swamped with customers. Something doesn’t mesh here. Are the anecdotes wrong? Are people not really buying guns?

Well, we now have some definitive answers.

According to the FBI, the number of NICS firearms checks went up by more than 300,000 over January’s total. That’s an increase of just under 100,000 checks over the same period a year earlier.

In February, the NICS performed a total of 2,333,193 background checks. In 2017, that number was just 2,234,817.

January only brought about 2,030,530. That was a decrease from the same period in 2017 when 2,043,184 NICS checks were performed.

Now, in the interest of fairness, it’s important to note that a NICS firearm check doesn’t automatically equate to a gun sale. After all, we have these “journalists” who went through everything to supposedly buy a firearm but didn’t. Let’s assume they actually did the background check. If so, they’re in that number.

However, the number of NICS checks is an accepted proxy for firearms sales. While a number of people …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms