Background Checks Hit New Record For March!

View · by **NMRMN** on Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:35 pm

The FBI reported a total of 2,209,407 background checks for March, 2013, up almost a half million checks compared to 2012′s record 1,727,821. As of March 31, 2013, the FBI reported 7,014,240 background checks in the first three months of 2013, far and a way ahead of any month in history, and comparable to the full year totals of 8,500,000 NICS checks of a decade ago.

View · by **spyder357** on Wed Apr 03, 2013 3:59 pm

Apparently the Democrats are good for business!

:lol:

View · by **jdege** on Wed Apr 03, 2013 4:00 pm

Number of carry permits issued in MN reached a peak, too, not just overall, but in any one month.

We set a record, back in August 03, just after the law passed - 3918 permits issued. We never reached that level again.

Until January 2013, when we issued 4800.

And then we exceeded that in February, issuing 5676.

And then again in March, with 7213.

This isn't just more permits over the last three months, it's a lot more permits. As in three times as many as in the same months in the previous year.

But what really worries me isn't the number of guns being sold, or the stockpiling of ammo, or the numbers of carry permits.

It's the sudden influx of zip-gun how-to's that are showing up on YouTube.

View · by **Hmac** on Wed Apr 03, 2013 4:25 pm

jdege wrote:
But what really worries me isn't the number of guns being sold, or the stockpiling of ammo, or the numbers of carry permits.

It's the sudden influx of zip-gun how-to's that are showing up on YouTube.

I suspect that in large part, that's just a component of Darwinisn at work.

View · by **whiteox** on Wed Apr 03, 2013 4:37 pm

NMRMN wrote:
The FBI reported a total of 2,209,407 background checks for March, 2013, up almost a half million checks compared to 2012′s record 1,727,821. As of March 31, 2013, the FBI reported 7,014,240 background checks in the first three months of 2013, far and a way ahead of any month in history, and comparable to the full year totals of 8,500,000 NICS checks of a decade ago.

And that's only 60 percent of the total sales happening !!

Least that's what Biden told me. /s

Seriously though, that is a ton of guns.

View · by **Rip Van Winkle** on Wed Apr 03, 2013 4:42 pm

No wonder the shelves are bare.

View · by **Heffay** on Wed Apr 03, 2013 4:52 pm

These numbers do more for gun rights than any letters we may write. ;-)

View · by **Rip Van Winkle** on Wed Apr 03, 2013 5:11 pm

Here's the raw numbers. http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/total-nics-background-checks-1998_2013_monthly_yearly_totals-033113.pdf

View · by **Tronster** on Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:21 pm

How did they manage to do that many nics checks when the shelves are empty of all the really hot guns everybody wants? Are they snapping up Chinese mosins now? :lol:

View · by **NMRMN** on Thu Apr 04, 2013 11:56 pm

read more: http://lewrockwell.com/north/north1277.html

View · by **Evad** on Fri Apr 05, 2013 8:08 am

Tronster wrote:How did they manage to do that many nics checks when the shelves are empty of all the really hot guns everybody wants? Are they snapping up Chinese mosins now?

Guns aren't hard to find. Food for them is. A couple of those checks are me