National Instant Criminal Background Check System

October 2024 was the 63rd consecutive month of over one million National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks for gun sales at retail.

The trial for Hunter Biden’s three alleged gun crimes begins Tuesday and the penalties for some of the allegations include jail time and steep fines. 

April 2024 marked the fifty-seventh consecutive month of more than one million NICS checks for gun sales or transfers.

The ATF’s background check rule changes the definition of “dealer” to now include people who smuggle guns into other countries to sell them.

The FBI is now conducting non-instant background checks on 18-20 year-old would-be gun purchasers in compliance with a 2022 gun control law.

March 2024 ended as the fifty-sixth consecutive month of more than one million background checks for firearm sales/transfers.

More than 140 House Democrats are demanding that the ability to bar veterans from gun purchases/ownership under certain circumstances be added back to the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act.

Deja Taylor, the mother of the six-year-old who shot his first grade teacher in Newport News, Virginia, was sentenced to federal prison on Wednesday for making false statements during a firearm purchase.

Robert Card was never involuntarily committed for mental health issues and was therefore not barred from passing a firearm background check.

On March 5, 2023, USA Today reported FBI data showing gun seizure orders surged during the years 2020 and 2021 surged to their highest levels since the adoption of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) in 1998.

Year-end figures from the FBI show there were over 31 million National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks conducted in 2022 and over 16 million guns sold. 

Numbers released Monday show that the FBI ran 192,749 National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks on Black Friday 2022.

The punishment for lying on a Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF) Form 4473 is “up to 10 years imprisonment and/or up to a $250,000 fine.”

The National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) points to FBI background check figures to show over one million guns have been sold in America every month for the past 38 months. 

A youth football and cheerleading league in North Carolina received criticism for the decision to raffle an AR-15 rifle, which the raffle organizers refer to as a “Freedom Stick.”

President Joe Biden took questions on Saturday’s Texas synagogue attack and suggested more gun control would not have stopped the attacker.

The FBI conducted over 38.8 million National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks during 2021. 

National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks for October 2021 represented the second-most checks for any October in history. 

September 2021 witnessed the second-most background checks of any September since the inception of National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks for retail firearm sales. 

August 2021 saw the second-most number of National Instant  Background Check System (NICS) checks of any August in history. 

June 2021 proved to be the second highest June for National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks ever.

May 2021 proved to be the 17th consecutive month of record National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks for firearm sales and transfers.

April 2021 proved to be the 16th consecutive month of record National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks for firearm sales and transfers.

March 2021 set a single month record for the number of National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks performed. 

February 2021 saw more NICS checks than any February in history, and that comes on the heels of 13 months in which a record for NICS checks was set for each month.

January 2021 shattered the previous all-time high for the number of National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks performed in any month. 

December 2020 was the 12th consecutive month of record National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks.

At this point in December it is already apparent that Americans bought approximately 21 million guns this year, an increase of 73 percent over the number of guns purchased in 2019.

November 2020 was the eleventh consecutive month of record National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks.

Over 186,000 firearm background checks were performed on Black Friday 2020, making it the fourth-highest one-day total for National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks on record.

Figures from the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) show that nearly seven million first-time buyers purchased guns between January 1, 2020, and October 31, 2020.

October 2020 was the tenth straight month of record National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) background checks for gun sales.

Gun sales year-to-date in 2020 already surpass the total number of guns sold for all of 2019.

The stock for renowned gun maker Smith & Wesson is up 130 percent his year, amid the unprecedented surge in gun sales. 

The run on guns and ammunition in the U.S. during 2020 is compounded by the fact that it is hunting season, and interest in hunting has increased.

August 2020 was the eighth consecutive month of record background checks for gun sales and transfers.