Posted February 6, 2020 3:13 am by Comments

By Chris Eger

2020 is off to a good start for gun sales as figures for January, when compared to those from January 2019, were up significantly. (Photo: Chris Eger/Guns.com)
The first month of 2020 saw a huge jump in firearm background checks when compared to the data from January 2019.
The unadjusted figures of 2,652,263 checks conducted through the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System in the first month of the year is a 23.3 percent jump from the unadjusted FBI NICS figure of 2,150,322 in January 2019.
When the data is adjusted — removing figures for gun permit checks and rechecks by states which use NICS for that purpose — the latest total remains a very decent 1,171,478, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the trade organization for the U.S. gun industry. This number is an 18.6 percent increase when stacked against the January 2019 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 988,160.
A big part of that increase came from gun dealers in Virginia which accounted for 67,699 adjusted NICS checks alone last month, an 84.6 percent increase over the January 2019 adjusted NICS figure of 36,678.
It should be noted that many gun owners in the Commonwealth have been politically active in

Source: Guns.com

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