we set a new NICS check record

[Engineer]

you can add the state POCs? Jack.

link to FBI NICS by YtD State:

NICS Firearm Checks: Month/Year by State | Federal Bureau of Investigation

Statistics represent the number of state-by-state firearms background checks initiated through the NICS from November 1998 to February 29, 2024.

www.fbi.gov

Unsurprizingly, MA is NOT in the Top 5...
Normalizing by 2020 populations, MA drops even lower:

 

[headednorth]

link to FBI NICS by YtD State:

NICS Firearm Checks: Month/Year by State | Federal Bureau of Investigation

Statistics represent the number of state-by-state firearms background checks initiated through the NICS from November 1998 to February 29, 2024.

www.fbi.gov

IL 1.8M

 

[67ray]

Wow go Kentucky!

 

[JuergenG]

The March number for Kentucky seems odd.

 

[Uzi2]

The March number for Kentucky seems odd.

I think it's low.

If I were to question any of the numbers it would be Illinois. There's NFW they sold more guns there than Tx, Fla, and KY.
I doubt they could have even issued their FOID cards and carry permits to new buyers that quickly with things shutting down.

 

[Zappa]

First-Time Buyers Explain Why Coronavirus Drove Them to Gun Stores in Record Numbers

Aaron Eaton learned how to shoot in the Army back in 2006, but holstered a pistol for the last time when he exited in 2009 and took a job as a technician for a sewer company. That all changed on March 26 when the father of four walked out of an Alabama gun store with a Beretta 92FS, the same gun...

freebeacon.com

 

[Whutmeworry]

Did anyone else notice that since the inception of NICS back in 1998 there have now been more total NICS checks conducted than there are people (men, women and children) in the United States?

 

[Quite_Exasperated]

Did anyone else notice that since the inception of NICS back in 1998 there have now been more total NICS checks conducted than there are people (men, women and children) in the United States?

Some of you clearly have a problem and have purchased many guns...

 

[EJFudd]

Did anyone else notice that since the inception of NICS back in 1998 there have now been more total NICS checks conducted than there are people (men, women and children) in the United States?

Success... ... not of NICS, but of the American people despite big government!

 

[76Too]

Yay, Indiana!

It feels nice being in a state that makes the list. Coincidentally, bordered by two other states that make the list.

I admittedly like Kentucky the best out of all three. Indiana is about the ONLY state in the country that me and my liberal counterpart can agree on...we live just outside the city (Indy) so she can get to work easy, and I can get the hell out of dodge on the weekends and go out to Gods country (ie. in the direction of Kentucky, affectionately known as Inducky).