April 2020 Sets Record for Firearm Background Checks: 2,911,128

[bamboomaster]

Well, no wonder there's an apparent ammo shortage....

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2...ground-checks/

FBI: April 2020 Sets Record for Firearm Background Checks

FBI figures show April 2020 witnessed more firearm background checks than any April since the inception of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), in 1998.

According to the FBI, there were 2,911,128 background checks conducted in April 2020. The closest any other April came to that figure was in 2019, when 2,334, 294 NICS checks were done.

April’s surge in background checks followed a March that shattered all one-month records. Breitbart News reported March 2020 witnessed 3,740,688 background checks, which were the most checks conducted in any single month since the inception of NICS.

The March and April surge came amid an unprecedented run on guns and ammunition during the issuance of coronavirus shutdowns, coupled with doomsday scenarios with civil unrest.

On March 19, 2020, Breitbart News quoted Kyle Olsen, owner of Arizona’s Olsen Firearms, saying, “We’ve never seen anything like this.”

He noted that the sales surge eclipsed what his store witnessed in January 2013, a time when Joe Biden was pushing numerous post-Sandy Hook gun controls for Barack Obama.

AWR Hawkins is an award-winning Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and the writer/curator of Down Range with AWR Hawkins, a weekly newsletter focused on all things Second Amendment, also for Breitbart News. He is the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him at awrhawkins@breitbart.com. You can sign up to get Down Range at breitbart.com/downrange.

[jthrelf]

Yup this has expanded past people who already owned guns but wanted to stock up more in case of a ban. Now more non-gun owners want to get armed up.

Besides the current supply shock, I don't see any real downside.

[57springer]

Now that my "relief " check got here , I am going to help boost that number for next month

[Fortytwo]

Now that all the gun shows have been cancelled, and (more significantly for me) CMP is not opening for business, I have not yet gotten any new toy this year. On the plus side, my discretionary money is piling up. Am very impatiently waiting for CMP to open back up to get my next few Garands.

[Fortytwo]

Back on topic, I think increased 2A support is one silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic.

[McSull]

Back on topic, I think increased 2A support is one silver lining of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Coincides with the mistrust of government

[PickingPA]

I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that the past 2 months have also seen a record number of magazines loaded in basements.

Thankfully the government has no way of tracking that statistic