{"id":2231,"date":"2013-06-11T01:53:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T01:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2013\/06\/11\/three-years-and-counting\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:22:13","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:22:13","slug":"three-years-and-counting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2231","title":{"rendered":"Three Years And Counting"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:13389,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nssf.org\\\/bulletpoints\\\/links\\\/NICS_061013.htm&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;:13390,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.sandiegoreader.com\\\/news\\\/2013\\\/apr\\\/03\\\/feature-gun-grab&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.sandiegoreader.com\\\/news\\\/2013\\\/apr\\\/03\\\/feature-gun-grab&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:13391,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nj.com\\\/cumberland\\\/index.ssf\\\/2012\\\/09\\\/rising_gun_sales_driven_by_fir.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>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssf.org\/bulletpoints\/links\/NICS_061013.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 2013 became the 36th straight month<\/a> &#8211; or three full years &#8211; in which the NSSF-adjusted NICS check figures topped the same period in the preceding year.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<i>The May 2013 NSSF-adjusted National Instant Criminal Background Check<br \/>\nSystem (NICS) figure of 974,457 is an increase of 15.9 percent over the<br \/>\nNSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 840,412 in May 2012. For comparison, the<br \/>\nunadjusted May 2013 NICS figure of 1,424,450 reflects a 9.1 percent<br \/>\nincrease from the unadjusted NICS figure of 1,305,392 in May 2012.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the NICS checks are not a direct correlation with sales, they are an indicator of trends. The National Instant Criminal Background Check<br \/>\nSystem is also used by a number of states for concealed carry permit background checks for both new and active permits.<\/p>\n<p>There are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoreader.com\/news\/2013\/apr\/03\/feature-gun-grab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">many anecdotal reports<\/a> that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/cumberland\/index.ssf\/2012\/09\/rising_gun_sales_driven_by_fir.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good part of current gun sales<\/a> are from first time buyers. If this is indeed the case &#8211; and I&#8217;ve come to believe it is &#8211; then this is not a bubble but a shift in the demand curve.<\/p>\n<p>This could also explain the scarcity of ammo. If I were to buy a new 9mm pistol, I have ammo for it that I&#8217;ve bought over the years. I don&#8217;t have to run out to Walmart, my local gun store, or go online right away to get ammo. However, if someone who has never owned a gun now buys one, he or she will need ammo for it. In the past week, I stopped into two Walmarts that were over 100 miles apart. Both had a decent selection of rifles and shotguns. Neither of them had any ammo in the more common calibers even though they have restrictions on the amount one can buy.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 2013 became the 36th straight month &#8211; or three full years &#8211; in which the NSSF-adjusted NICS check&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":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2615,919,232],"class_list":["post-2231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ammo-shortage","tag-nics-checks","tag-nssf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231","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=2231"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9214,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2231\/revisions\/9214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}