After some down months vs year-earlier numbers, the National Shooting Sports Foundation reports that May’s NICS total were up slightly over May 2018. All in all, good news. While not a perfect measure of firearm sales, NICS checks are a decent barometer of the state of the business. Here’s the NSSF’s press release . . […]
Quite a few electronics here – a Dell, a smart phone, an iPad – and also a pair of electrician’s scissors and a utility knife. The gun is a Ruger LCP II which is leaps and bounds ahead of the original LCP. The trigger is improved, the grip is better – it’s an excellent improvement […]
From the National Shooting Sports Foundation: The November 2018 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,314,193 is a decrease of 9.8 percent compared to the November 2017 NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,457,103. For comparison, the unadjusted November 2018 FBI NICS figure of 2,363,705 reflects a 0.4 percent decrease from the unadjusted FBI NICS figure of 2,372,888 in November 2017. The adjusted NICS data were […]
What goes up, as they say, must come down. The FBI reported a record 203,086 NICS on Black Friday 2017. This year’s total of 182,093 represents a drop of 10%. While not a perfect indicator, NICS checks are a good thumbnail picture of gun sales volume. As the McPaper reports . . . This year’s […]
Background checks completed in the FBI’s National Instant Background Check system totaled 2,073,296 in August, a 7.7% increase over 2017. That’s the highest number for August since NICS was established in 1998. For reference, the August 1999 NICS total was 703,394 about one-third of the current total. More and more NICS checks are being used […]
On July 6, Marlin Mack shot and killed a graduate student during an attempted restaurant robbery in Kansas City, Missouri. On July 15, after a nine-day manhunt, undercover officers from the KCMO PD spotted Mack at the swanky Sky Vue Motel. KCPD Chief Rick Smith said, “He just popped up all of the sudden and engaged the officer.” […]
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) continued to record near-record numbers in July. During the 2016 election cycle, the fear of a Clinton presidency pushed gun sales and, correspondingly, NICS background checks to an all-time record high. Many people thought sales and NICS checks would crater once President Trump was elected. But both […]
“When incidents happen and it’s determined that a piece of information was missed or if a person did not get a piece of information they needed in a time matter (sic), I can assure you the men and women of the FBI take it very, very seriously. It’s personal because they see their purpose as […]
After every noteworthy mass shooting — and not all of them are worthy of mention…why isn’t David Hogg tweeting about Trenton? Who is he boycotting because of that one? — politicians, the media and the Civilian Disarmament Industrial Complex raise their collective voices in unified support of “common sense” “gun safety” measures. The most frequently […]
The FBI hasn’t exactly covered itself in glory over the past decade. One of the bureau’s biggest black eyes came when it was revealed that the bureau failed to deny a firearms purchase to the Charleston church shooter who later murdered nine people with the gun. Survivors of the shooting had filed a wrongful death suit […]
May 2018 set a new record for the number of National Instant Background Checks conducted by the FBI with a total of 2,002,992. The next highest May was in 2017, at 1,942,677. Before that, the next highest May was in 2016, at 1,870,000. Notice a trend? There were numerous predictions that President Trump would preside […]
The NICS has been the subject of much discussion lately thanks to the FixNICS bill, and mostly because the system clearly doesn’t work as well as it should. Lots of gun owners worry that the National Instant Criminal Background Check System – or NICS – has records of gun buyers and the firearms they purchased. […]
