November Set Records for Gun Sales

Dean Weingarten of Ammoland outlined several figures coming from the FBI illustrating the previous month’s record-breaking firearms sales.

The number of National Instant background Check System (NICS) checks that were processed last month was 3,626,335. This does not necessarily represent all gun sales. According to Weingarten’s numbers, 1,920,155 firearms were sold in November. The previous record of firearms sold in November was in 2016, when 1.623 million sales were conducted.

Last November, there were roughly 1.30 million sales. November 2020’s sales were 1.47 times greater than November 2019’s figures. Weingarten recounted that in 2020, thus far, sales have been 1.7 times higher than 2019. Right now, 2020 gun sales stand around 18.76 million.