{"id":12412,"date":"2019-12-04T20:55:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-04T20:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12412"},"modified":"2019-12-04T20:55:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-04T20:55:12","slug":"even-my-local-tv-station-is-talking-about-nics-checks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=12412","title":{"rendered":"Even My Local TV Station Is Talking About NICS Checks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5410,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/wlos.com\\\/news\\\/nation-world\\\/gun-background-checks-are-on-pace-to-break-record-in-2019&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5411,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.usatoday.com\\\/story\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/01\\\/fbi-posts-near-record-black-friday-gun-check-numbers\\\/4346609002&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.usatoday.com\\\/story\\\/news\\\/politics\\\/2019\\\/12\\\/01\\\/fbi-posts-near-record-black-friday-gun-check-numbers\\\/4346609002\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5412,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/en.wikipedia.org\\\/wiki\\\/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>When even your local mid-size market TV station is reporting on Black Friday NICS checks, you know it is a big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Black Friday firearm sales appear to have very, very good. While the FBI&#8217;s NICS checks are also used for carry permit background checks (among other things), they still are a good indicator of trends in firearm sales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wlos.com\/news\/nation-world\/gun-background-checks-are-on-pace-to-break-record-in-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">According to a story posted by my local TV station, WLOS<\/a>, there were 202,465 NICS checks run on Black Friday. Put another way, that is one every 4.85 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2019\/12\/01\/fbi-posts-near-record-black-friday-gun-check-numbers\/4346609002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">As USA Today notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The FBI fielded more than 200,000 background checks on Black Friday gun purchases, continuing a steady surge this year following a series of mass shootings that have renewed calls for more restrictive gun laws.<\/p><p>In all, the bureau posted 202,465 checks Friday,<strong> an 11% increase from last year<\/strong> and falling just short of the single-day record:\u00a0203,086\u00a0in 2017.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I would love to see the exact numbers for Virginia where many gun control proposals are sure to reach Gov. Ralph Northam&#8217;s desk. As it is, <a href=\"file:\/\/\/D:\/Pictures\/Lip%20&amp;%20Eyes\/NICS_Firearm_Checks_-_Month_Year_by_State_Type.pdf\">we do have the numbers for the entire month of November<\/a> and they are up approximately 5,000 compared to 2018. It should be noted that virtually all the NICS checks in Virginia are for sales and not permit checks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To put Virginia in context, let&#8217;s compare it to Georgia which has approximately <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_states_and_territories_of_the_United_States_by_population\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2 million more residents<\/a>. <a href=\"file:\/\/\/D:\/Pictures\/Lip%20&amp;%20Eyes\/NICS_Firearm_Checks_-_Month_Year_by_State_Type.pdf\">Georgia&#8217;s NICS checks<\/a> for only firearms for November 2019 totaled 29,826. Virginia, meanwhile, had a total of 56,661 checks for only firearms. If we needed any clearer evidence that fear of future gun control can drive sales, this is it.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When even your local mid-size market TV station is reporting on Black Friday NICS checks, you know it is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1334,4925,919,2024],"class_list":["post-12412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-friday","tag-firearm-sales","tag-nics-checks","tag-virginia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12413,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12412\/revisions\/12413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}