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The organization alleges that the agency is violating state law by unlawfully charging specific individuals background check fees and conducting unauthorized supplemental background checks when those individuals purchase firearms.
Nevada hasn’t just shut down gun sales — it may have handed hackers a treasure map of who owns firearms and where they live. If gun-owner records were part of the stolen data, criminals now have a ready-made shopping list of armed households…
Hawaii statutes, which impose a 30-day time limit to purchase a firearm after receiving a permit and require police inspection of legally purchased firearms within five days, violate the Second Amendment.
This is the first month in almost six years that the adjusted NICS numbers estimate less than one million firearm sales.
“Background checks save lives,” gun-grabbers assert as if it had been engraved on stone tablets and brought down from Mount Sinai. However, there’s little objective evidence that background checks deliver on the promises.
…what happened in Blue Springs, Missouri, after a firearm retailer employee followed their instinct and acted, denying the sale of an AR-15 to an individual who just seemed “off.”
The NSSF adjusted National Instant Background Check System firearm sales shows about 1.06 million sales in June 2025. This is down about 5% from 2024.
NICS firearms sales and background checks are little changed from May numbers in 2024. May sales added over a million firearms to the private stock of firearms in the United States.
This win cuts red tape. You already passed a background check to get your CCW. Forcing you to go through it again every time you buy a gun is government overreach—plain and simple.
Firearm and National Instant Background Check System (NICS) checks are down a bit more than 3% from April of 2024. This trend is expected to continue.
The 2.58 million NICS checks in March 2025 are the lowest number of checks done in March since March 2017, when the number was 2.43 million.
The ATF Transparency Act will streamline background checks, protect Second Amendment rights, and hold ATF accountable.
According to the Government Accountability Office, in 2017, the NICS background check system denied 112,090 people the right to purchase a firearm. Of those 112,090 denials, only 12,710 were investigated.
The plaintiffs claimed that the three gun shops were a public nuisance because a man named Demetrius Minor purchased several guns from the shops.
The National Instant Background Check System numbers were slightly down for December 2024. About 15 million guns were sold in 2024, bringing the total number of guns in the United States private stock to 518 million.
The National Instant background Check System (NICS)numbers for November of 2024 show November continuing the trend toward the fifth highest year for gun sales. Gun sales were the sixth highest on the record. They were almost equal to the fifth highest, in 2022. NICS checks were the fifth highest on record.
The ATF monitored people for their associations and the feeling that the target might commit a crime in the future.
Both gun sales and NICS checks were the fifth highest recorded for the month of October, a consistent theme in 2024.
The Washington State Patrol background check system came back online Sunday at 1 p.m., according to WSP spokesman Chris Loftis, but this may not appease angry gun owners
Background checks in Washington State are “on hold” while computer techs are trying to fix some system “infiltration,” which has created problems with the entire court system.
The ‘SAFE’ system, used to conduct background checks for WA firearms purchases has been disabled for at least ten days. If not restored promptly we will sue your asses.
Gun sales and NICS background checks for September of 2024 are the fifth highest on record. Gun sales are likely to climb in October, November and December.
July 2024 marks the 60th consecutive month where over a million firearms were sold a month in the United States.
That all that was produced was copies of non-responsive CFR sections makes it fair to surmise such information will not be voluntarily provided because it cannot be provided.
NICS numbers for June of 2024 show the month to be number six in firearm sales and NICS checks. Sales continue at over one million a month.
May 2024 continues the trend noted by the National Shooting Sports Foundation of gun sales of over a million a month for the last 58 months.
The National Instant background Check System shows the numbers for gun sales and background checks in April of 2024 are the fifth highest April on record.
What all those pages in the FOIA response did not do is provide what was being asked for.
One would think a Federal Firearms Licensee would be in tune with gun owner reasons and sentiments for Second Amendment absolutism…
National Instant background check numbers for gun sales in February of 2024 are holding steady at the new normal. There are now over 500 million firearms in private hands in the USA.
