Over 2.7 Million Background Checks Were Completed In March

This is the news David Hogg and his buddies probably never wanted to hear.

The FBI ran more background checks in March than any other March on record. We’re talking 2,767,699 background checks in March 2018 alone. March 2016 is in second place, with 2,523,265 checks.

Keep in mind that this doesn’t necessarily reflect the number of guns purchased. We’re just talking checks. Some people could be getting checks just to obtain a gun permit, while others could undergo a check and buy, say, three guns.

Free Beacon reports:

The March results put 2018 on pace to see more gun-related background checks than 2017, the second-best year on record, but still behind 2016, the best year on record.

The number of checks run through NICS in a month is considered one of the strongest indicators for how well gun sales are doing because each sale made by a federally licensed dealer, such as a gun store, is subject to a check. The state, however, is not an exact representation of gun sales due to a number of factors. For instance, the vast majority of states don’t require checks on the sale of used guns between private parties, some states use the checks in their process for issuing gun-carry permits, and sales of multiple guns during a single transaction by a dealer generally only requires a single background check.

“These statistics represent the number of firearm background checks initiated through the NICS,” the FBI wrote in its report on the number of checks. “They do not represent the number of firearms sold. Based on varying state laws and purchase scenarios, a one-to-one correlation cannot be made between a firearm background check and a firearm sale.”

But it’s definitely a valuable indicator. The truth is, we’ve seen this pattern before. When liberals get all gun-grabby, law-abiding citizens typically react by going out and purchasing the guns libs want to ban. (Heck, I’ve done this.)

“Sales of semi-auto rifles, especially AR and AK platforms, have more than doubled in sales since the Florida shooting and subsequent media coverage of possible pending legislation,” Rex McClanahan, owner of one of the biggest online gun dealers, Bud’s Gun Shop, told the Washington Free Beacon at the end of February. “This is exactly what happened after Sandy Hook, San Bernardino, Orlando, etc.”

He said the push to buy certain guns, especially those targeted by gun-control activists, nearly depleted his inventory.

“The market on these types of guns had actually gotten very soft after Trump took office,” he said. “Manufactures and distributors alike were sitting on thousands of them and the prices had dropped substantially. That inventory has now almost completely cleared out since the school shooting in Florida.”

No word from David Hogg. I have a feeling he isn’t too pleased.

h/t Washington Free Beacon