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.
NICS for April 2024: Fifth Highest in Gun Sales and Background Checks
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Justice Department FOIA Response on Permanent Entry to NICS Ignores Key Requests
What all those pages in the FOIA response did not do is provide what was being asked for.
Gun Store Owner Defends Approval of Biden Background Check Rule
One would think a Federal Firearms Licensee would be in tune with gun owner reasons and sentiments for Second Amendment absolutism…
NICS Numbers for February 2024, Steady on the New Normal
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.
FOIA Request Questions FBI for Using NICS on NY Ammunition Background Checks
That raises the question of where the FBI, which administers the system, is authorized to perform background checks for ammunition purchases.
California Ammunition Infringements Back in Force… for Now
On February 5, 2024, a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit, in a split decision, granted a motion to stay the decision of the District Court by Judge Benitez.
Federal Court Strikes Down California’s Ammunition Background Check Law
U.S. District Court Judge Roger T. Benitez has once again made headlines in California by permanently enjoining the State of California’s enforcement of the state’s ammunition sales background check provisions.
Gun Buyer NICS Checks Top 680,000 For 2023 ‘Black Friday’ Week
Firearm sales remain consistently strong, with over a million per month for more than four years running…
SCOTUS Consider Challenge to Ammunition Background Check
A case challenging the ammunition background check in New York is headed to a conference in the Supreme Court on Friday, October 6.
New York’s Ammunition Background Check System is a Hot Mess
If you want to buy a box of ammo in New York state, be prepared for a bevy of personal questions, a background check, and a long wait.
New Background Check Law Is Destroying Gun Sales in NY, …As Intended
New York State’s law that requires background checks for ammunition purchases went into effect on Sept. 13th, & has been a disaster from the start.
Abrams Exploits Constituent Ignorance and Flat-Out Lies About Guns
Nothing in the new permitless (“Constitutional Carry”) law sanctions “prohibited persons” to purchase or bear arms. And Abrams knows that.
NH: Off-Road Carry and Background Check Reform Bills Pass Legislature
Two bills have passed the New Hampshire Legislature and will be sent to Governor Sununu in a few days. The bills remove the ban on snowmobile and ATV carry, and reform the background check system.
Leaked Document Shows ATF Spying on Gun Buyers Through NICS ~ VIDEO
This 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.
Exposing the Left’s Real Intent Behind Gun Background Checks ~VIDEO
“we need more background checks to keep people safe.” It always comes from the political left. Why is it that we never hear it
Subversive Appeasement is No Way to ‘Save the Second’
Any concession with gun banners will have the same effect as throwing a scrap of meat to a pack of circling jackals in the hopes you’ll then be left alone.
FOIA Request Shows FBI Adding Non-Prohibited Buyers to NICS Preventing Gun Purchases
In 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.
Will Accusation of Child Sexual Abuse ‘Snuff Out’ Michael Pfleger?
Note Pfleger wasn’t exactly consumed with concern for innocence and due process when he urged a mob to “snuff out” a gun store owner who had committed no crimes.
Default Proceed Sale Transparency Act & the So-Called ‘Charleston Shooter Loophole’
The 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.
September 2020 NICS and Gun Sales Continue Record Trend
September 2020 is another record month for National Instant Background Checks and Gun Sales. Total for the year to date is over 15 million sales, with over six million new gun owners.
NJ 2A Groups Demand Accountability in Gun Permitting, Eliminate State NICS Middle-Man
The pro-gun groups are calling for the elimination of qualified immunity for delays in firearms permitting that result in bodily harm or death to the applicant.
VA Background Check Expansion Push Ignores Reality and Less-Intrusive Alternative
Citizen disarmament fanatics like those at Safer Country would compel loss of rights without due process, and the only ones who would comply would be the “law-abiding.”
Time for Universal Background Checks for Abortions, Voting & Car Buying
It is time for laws requiring Americans to submit personally-identifying information and submit to a full background check every time they go to the abortion clinic or the polls.
NICS Background Checks for April, 2020, Breaks Record for Gun Sales
NICS broke records for gun sales in April of 2020. The lock downs in various states seemed to provide incentives for people to purchase guns and ammunition.
Deceptive VA Gun Grab Enabled by Deliberately Changed Demographics
No matter what others tell you, and always without addressing my challenge, the issues of guns and immigration are inextricably intertwined.
Justice Department Rules Fix NICS Act A Success
The Attorney General received “satisfactory” compliance plans from 45 Federal agencies, all 50 states, D.C. & Indian tribal governments. Another 44 Federal agencies have certified that they have no…
Nevada Concealed Firearm Permit Holders Lose NICS Exemption for Private Transfers
Nevada’s anti-gun politicians sold their background check legislation as a way to keep guns out of the hands of criminals, as we all know they submit for background checks…
Pensacola Murders Tell Us Much about Background Checks and More
…they reverse themselves when it comes to letting foreign nationals of unknown ideologies into this country…
NSSF Praises States: Record Submission of Disqualifying Mental Health Records to NICS
This milestone is what bipartisan common ground looks like. It is a development that we can all agree is good for the safety of our communities.
July 2019 NICS Background Checks Highest on Record, Sales Steady
The July 2019 National Instant background Checks are the highest on record. Increasing numbers of permit and permit rechecks skew the numbers.