January's NICS query statistics indicate a possible slight decline in firearms sales, but a bigger drop in other NICS-related queries.
The FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) performed a record-high number of checks on Black Friday of 2023, says the Firearm Industry Trade Association.
A January 2023 report from CNBC claims that gun companies are experiencing a decline in demand for firearms. According to the report, in 2022, gun sales dropped by 11% compared to the previous year. Publicly-traded gun companies like Smith & Wesson and Sturm, Ruger [Read More…]
Black Friday is always a red-letter day for retailers of virtually every type. So much so that the purchasing event has spawned Cyber Monday, and this has stretched into multi-day sales beginning the week prior, and often running past Cyber Monday as well. The firearms [Read More…]
Our friends at Orchid, who handle a variety of administrative, legal, and logistical services for Federal Firearms License (FFL) holders, are reminding everyone that firearms transfers for individuals between the ages of 18-20 will be delayed for a period of time while [Read More…]
There is always a lot of debate in the gun world in regards to background checks being conducted with gun legislation pundits on both sides constantly arguing over whether or not the current system actually works or not. A recent article put out by the Associated Press [Read More…]
The National Shooting Sports Foundation, the firearms industry’s trade association, has revealed FBI National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) data indicating that NICS processed 687,788 background checks during the week leading up to and including [Read More…]
The numbers coming in from the FBI this month indicate that the current record for NICS Firearm Background Checks completely shatters every previous year going back to 1998 when records begin with a staggering 4,317,804 background checks being made for the month of [Read More…]
It seems that 2020 is heating up in the gun world as last month we just witnessed the highest number of NICS checks in the FBI’s history for the month of May. Throughout 2020, federal background checks have continued to increase due to various circumstances across [Read More…]
In response to the uncertain times that the COVID-19 virus has brought upon the American populace, it seems that many American families have chosen to arm themselves. A Newsy/Ipsos survey revealed that 1 in 20 households say they have purchased some sort of firearm in [Read More…]
It is not a secret that retailers and distributors have seen a surge in sales for firearms and ammunition in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Uncertainty causes people to prepare for worst-case situations. And fortunately, in the United States, the citizenry [Read More…]
The National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) used to transfer firearms in many states is run by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The system itself isn’t exactly instant, especially in times of high volume – like Black Friday and now the [Read More…]
By executive order, the Governor of New Jersey has shutdown the NICS Check system that allows for the sale and transfer of firearms in the state. The NICS check shutdown effectively eliminates all commercial and private transfers of firearms in New Jersey. In addition, [Read More…]
The number of firearms purchased through Federal Firearms License holders on Black Friday has been released by the FBI, which were just short of breaking the current record from 2017. This year’s Black Friday gun sales were just 621 checks shy of breaking the [Read More…]
Congratulations Gun Owners, we’re making it happen! The National Instant background Check System (NICS) for October 2019, showed record levels of background checks. In essence, the firearms community is buying more guns than ever before. Regardless of how you [Read More…]
Our friends at Orchid Advisors just made us aware of a procedural change in firearms transfers in the state of Alabama. Alabama FFLs can no longer accept the state’s Concealed Carry Permit (CCP) as an exemption for a federal NICS check. Apparently, Alabama has not [Read More…]
Contrary to what some mainstream media outlets might portray, data from the American background check system ‘NICS’ shows that guns aren’t “icky” and the shooting sports is still a popular recreational activity. 2019 marks the first year that recorded more [Read More…]
The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) has released its estimates on firearm sales in 2018. While the overall numbers have fallen for the second straight year, it wasn’t as sharp a decline as it was in 2017. The NSSF bases their estimates in the FBI’s [Read More…]
Those who expected the slump in the gun market to extend to the buyingest day in the year will be surprised: Black Friday, November 24 shattered the record for most NICS checks in a single day by over 17,000, reports USA Today. The total? 203,086 background checks [Read More…]
While stock prices drop, large firearm companies file for bankruptcy protection and analysts predict a softening of the entire firearms industry, the FBI’s NICS Firearms Checks statistics show a marked increase in February 2017 over January. The NICS section of [Read More…]
In what appears to fly in the face of the Bureau’s prior attitudes towards enforcement of gun laws, a white paper by BATFE Associate Deputy Director Ronald Turk was recently leaked which proposed loosening or modifying gun regulations in sixteen ways, to be [Read More…]
FBI have released the statistics from the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). Interestingly, the FBI statistics go all the way back to 1998 when they started keeping a record as part of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act of 1993. During all [Read More…]
It’s not news to gun owners that firearms sales in the United States have skyrocketed upwards since the expiration of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban in 2004, a trend which picked up steam with the 2008 election. What is surprising even to a seasoned gun nerd like [Read More…]
If these numbers are anything to go by, then gun owners across America had a very merry Christmas this past year. The last month of 2015 not only broke the FBI NICS all-time record, it shattered it, with over 3.3 MILLION NICS checks in December. That’s over half [Read More…]
Bridging on the political side of things slightly, but only because this directly affects all suppressor/SBR/ Class three/ AOW owners/dealers out there, a think tank by the name of Center for American Progress released a throughly researched and 2 years in the making [Read More…]
For the first time in nine years the NSSF is reporting that the NICS checks are down from the previous year for the month of July. There has been steady growth in the industry in the past 15 years, with the NICS checks for purchases doubling in that time frame. With [Read More…]
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