In August, 2.04 million checks were conducted through the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), according to an analysis by Guns.com. Though this is a 16.4 percent dip from the 2.45 million checks conducted in August 2022, the numbers are still higher when compared to the years before the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020, it said.
This August registered the fifth highest NICS checks for any August in the past 25 years. This was also the 49th consecutive month that gun sales crossed the 1 million mark.
Data from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) showed around 1.1 million background checks last month, down 13 percent from the same month last year.
While NICS numbers include checks conducted for reasons like clearing concealed carry permit applications, the NSSF adjusts these numbers. As such, NSSF data is seen as a potentially truer depiction of retail gun sales.
In a statement to Guns.com, Mark Oliva, public affairs officer with the NSSF, said that the 1.1 million gun sales figure shows “the desire for lawful firearm ownership is far from over.”
Hopefully there is be ammo to feed the weapons.
Illinois Governor, JB Pritzker, now requires all “assault rifles and variants” to be registered with the state or you become a felon. If you have high cap mags, you must keep them inside your residence or on your property. If you get caught with them off your property, you go to jail. He bans all of this stuff and more. Even the Remington 870 shotgun is banned because the magazine tube can be extended. They want you dead.
Ive got a Solution! Move to Indiana, Ohio, Tennessee or Texas. We’d be glad to have more patriots! I know allot of Illinois Farmers and people south of Chicago…isnt it time for succession from that Sh_thole? You can call it “Free Ilinois” and Chicagos new identity…O’Brandon-Big Mike Socialist Republic.
Every gun purchase is a vote for freedom.
just remember the other side is scared too, it not just our side buying, and the other side is dangerous.
The guns are useless if you are not willing to use them in defense of God, country and family. Just as obiden is shutting down oil and gas, they are busy shutting down the 2nd amendment.