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.
May 2025 Gun Sales Hold Strong—Only 1.6% Below 2024

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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.
The ATF under the Trump administration has added permits from two states, Alabama and Michigan, to those which may be substituted for a Brady (NICS) background check.
Any new monitoring must be approved by the ATF Special Agents in Charge (SACs) and the Deputy Assistant Director (DAD). This change prevents rogue agents from using the system for their own needs.
Senator Rand Paul is launching an investigation into the ATF’s use of the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS).
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.
The National Instant Background Check System (NICS) recorded firearm sales about 9 percent lower than February 2024.
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.
Firearm sales, as measured by the National Instant background Check System (NICS) remain flat in January of 2025.
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.
Unlike FOIA requests, which can ask for records, the committee can ask questions and has subpoena power to cut through to the chase and get them answered.
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.
National Instant background Check System (NICS) and gun sale declined for the fifth year in a row for March. Inflation and a slow economy are part of the reason.
Does the DOJ have the power to create new classes of “prohibited persons” outside of what is statutorily defined?
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.
That raises the question of where the FBI, which administers the system, is authorized to perform background checks for ammunition purchases.
The January, 2024 National Instant background Check System (NICS) numbers show gun sales at close to the average for January for the last ten years.
About 1.74 million gun sales were indicated by the NICS System in December of 2023. About 15.3 million guns were sold with NICS background checks in 2023, making 2023 the fourth-highest year on record.
National Instant Background Check System gun sales and background checks continue the trend for 2023. Gun sales numbers are the third highest for November.
Firearm sales remain consistently strong, with over a million per month for more than four years running…
The New York state takeover of gun & ammo background checks goes into effect on September 13, & it’s going to cost you money & your privacy.
That general principle calls into question the lawfulness of requiring the permanent surrender of rights as a plea condition…
Samuel Stebbins breathlessly reported gun sales were collapsing in Illinois. Unfortunately, his facts are wrong based on his misunderstanding of NICS background check use & changing gun law.
April of 2022 NICS gun sales numbers are the third highest April on record, continuing the trend. A new normal for gun sales appears to have been established.