{"id":2053,"date":"2013-09-03T23:37:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T23:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/09\/03\/the-streak-had-to-be-broken-sometime\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:22:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:22:47","slug":"the-streak-had-to-be-broken-sometime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2053","title":{"rendered":"The Streak Had To Be Broken Sometime"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:12855,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nssf.org\\\/bulletpoints\\\/links\\\/NICS_090313.cfm&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;:10280,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\\\/2013\\\/08\\\/its-small-but-still-increase.html&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>\nAfter 38 straight months of increases in the NSSF-adjusted NICS checks when compared to the same month a year previously, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssf.org\/bulletpoints\/links\/NICS_090313.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the streak has ended<\/a>. The NSSF-adjusted NICS checks for the month of August 2013 were 2.5% lower than August 2012.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>The August 2013 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figure of 1,016,559 <b>is a decrease of 2.5 percent<\/b> compared to the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,042,924 in August 2012. For comparison, the unadjusted August 2013 NICS figure of 1,408,468 reflects a 7.0 percent decrease from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,514,696 in August 2012.<\/p>\n<p>This NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,016,559, while being a 2.5 percent decrease from the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 1,042,924 in August 2012, <b>is an increase of 24.6 percent over checks in August 2011<\/b>.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The streak of increases began in May 2010.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that NICS checks are not a perfect correlation with firearm sales. This is because a number of states such as Connecticut and Utah use the NICS database to perform background checks on applicants for concealed carry permits as well as existing holders.<\/p>\n<p>As to the streak being broken, <a href=\"http:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.blogspot.com\/2013\/08\/its-small-but-still-increase.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">we saw signs of the slowing last month<\/a>. While ammo is still in relatively short supply, you can find a full gun case including AR-15s at most Walmarts. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 38 straight months of increases in the NSSF-adjusted NICS checks when compared to the same month a year&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":3,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[919,232],"class_list":["post-2053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nics-checks","tag-nssf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053","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=2053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9432,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2053\/revisions\/9432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}