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String of Record Breaking Gun Sales Ends with May 2021: NICS Numbers
by Dean WeingartenThe number of NICS checks broke records for each month starting August of 2019 until May of this year, 2021, for 21 months of record gun sales!
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April 2021 NICS Breaks Record, Gun Sales Continue High for Month
by Dean WeingartenApril 2021 NICS checks and gun sales broke another record, but just barely. We may have reached a new normal for the level of gun and ammunition sales.
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Below The Radar: NICS Denial Notification Act of 2021
by Harold HutchisonSome bills are easily seen as bad, others are easily recognizable as advances in protecting the Second Amendment. But come legislative items don't lend themselves to an easy call.
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Leaked Document Shows ATF Spying on Gun Buyers Through NICS
by John CrumpThis monitoring of NICS isn’t for prohibited people. It is for monitoring people that are not prohibited from buying a firearm, but the ATF suspects MIGHT be committing a crime in the future.
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NICS All-Time Record for March 2021, Gun Sales Down 20% from Record Set in 2020
by Dean WeingartenThe number of National Instant background Checks (NICS) for March of 2021 is an all time record. About 2 million of the 4.7 million checks were done for firearm sales.
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FOIA Request Shows FBI Adding Non-Prohibited Buyers to NICS Preventing Gun Purchases
by John CrumpIn the United States, we have a long tradition of “innocent until proven guilty,” but the FBI seems to take the opposite approach when it comes to gun purchase rights.
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Guns in America: Ending the Culture War & Starting a Productive Conversation
by Rob PincusThe policy area with the most synergistic message is also the one that represents what we believe is the greatest potential for impact: Expanded Background Checks.
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February 2021 NICS Second Highest Gun Sales on Record
by Dean WeingartenThe February 2021 National Instant background Check System showed record levels of checks, and the second-highest level of gun sales for February, since the systems started recording numbers.
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NICS and Gun Sales in January 2021 sets New Record
by Dean WeingartenThe FBI NICS background check numbers for January, 2021, break all time records for checks in a month, and very high numbers of gun sales in a month.
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December 2020 New Record for Background Checks, Gun Sales for Year
by Dean WeingartenIn December, the number of NICS background checks was 3,937,066, an all-time record. The number of firearms sold in December was about 1.90 million.
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Default Proceed Sale Transparency Act & the So-Called ‘Charleston Shooter Loophole’
by F Riehl, Editor in ChiefThe big push behind how the “Charleston Loophole” is painted revolves around the three-day default proceed provisions. The gun banner's logic is fairly flawed for several reasons.
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Background Checks from Gun Sales Break Records for November 2020
by Dean WeingartenNovember has been another record month in the record year of 2020, with over 3.6 million background checks, gun sales for the month are over 1.9 million.
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