U.S. gun background checks shattered one-month record in March

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U.S. gun background checks shattered one-month record in March

Red-hot gun buying craze shows little signs of slowing down

justthenews.com

“The FBI performed nearly 4.7 million background checks for guns last month, almost 400,000 more than the earlier record set in January.

January and March are the only time in the history of the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System that gun checks have broken four million. Prior to that, the highest number of checks was in December of last year at 3.9 million.

The FBI ran nearly 40 million background checks total last year. In the first three months of 2021, meanwhile, the bureau has processed about 12.5 million checks.”

So to extrapolate that out for the rest of 2021 (12.5 per quarter X 4 quarters) is about 50M background checks, an increase of about 25% over 2020.