November 2019 sets New Record for NICS Background Checks

By Dean Weingarten

U.S.A. –-(Ammoland.com)- The National Instant background Check System (NICS) numbers for November of 2019 are a new record, 2,574,752. The previous record was in November 2016, at 2,556,281.

The numbers for NICS in 2019, through the end of November, are 25,432,856.

Those numbers, by themselves, would make 2019 the third-highest year on record. But December numbers are yet to be added to the year’s total. December has the highest number of checks of any month of the year for 17 of the last 20 complete years of NICS checks.

Last year, the December NICS checks were 2,543,385. They will probably be higher than that this year. The record for December was in 2016 when the total NICS checks hit 3,314,594. It is possible NICS will break that record this month.

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