January 2021 Shatters Record for Firearm Background Checks
2 Feb 2021
January 2021 shattered the previous all-time high for the number of National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) checks performed in any month.
FBI figures show there were 4,317,804 NICS checks conducted in January 2021, eclipsing the previous record of 2,702,702, set in January 2020.
In addition to setting a single month record, the surge in background checks makes January 2021 record setting for the number of NICS checks witnessed during any month, period. The previous one-month record was the 3,740,688 NICS checks witnessed in March 2020.
January 2021 comes on the heels of a record-setting 2020, wherein each month proved to be a record month for background checks.
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The FBI conducted more than 4.3 million gun background checks in January 2021 – the highest number of checks completed during a single month in the agency’s recorded history – as one expert says the staggering figure indicates a growing demand for firearms from the American public.
The FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) completed 4,317,804 total background checks in January of this year, marking the start of 2021 with the highest number of checks conducted in a one-month period, according to agency data. Excluding federal-level checks, such as those conducted for federal law enforcement agents, the bureau conducted 4,288,240 state-level background checks, said Small Arms Analytics and Forecasting Chief Economist Jurgen Brauer.
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Deep in south Louisiana, a state that bills itself as Sportsman’s Paradise, Valerie Martinez-Jordan readily admits that “we like our guns down here.”
That doesn’t stop Martinez-Jordan, a lieutenant with the Lafourche Parish Sheriff’s Office, from taking guns from the hands of domestic abusers in this rural corner of the state.
One day it was two. One week it was 10. In one instance, a man told the judge he had only three guns. Instead, the department confiscated 22.
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In a review of national firearm data spanning more than 20 years, researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have identified alarming trends regarding increasing rates of firearm-related deaths among some of America s youngest residents.
According to lead researcher Archie Bleyer, M.D., the rate of unintentional firearm deaths in children ages 1 - 4 increased exponentially at an average annual percent of 4.9 between 1999 and 2018, with the greatest impact among non-Hispanic Black and White children. This rate is more than eight times higher than any other highly developed country worldwide. What is perhaps most distressing about these findings, is that nearly 90% of these instances took place in or near the victims home, and 100% of the events were preventable, says Bleyer, a clinical research professor in the Department of Radiation Medicine, OHSU Knight Cancer Institute, OHSU School of Medicine.
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The story is told about a State Trooper who saw a Lexus moving a little quickly on the Interstate and, noticing it was being driven by an older white-haired woman, decided to give her a warm-natured warning. After pulling her over, he walked to the driver’s side window and noticed she was pleasant and unusually spry before she said, “Officer, I must inform you I have a handgun ‘carry’ permit … “
“Yes, ma’am, I appreciate your kindness in informing me. Where is the firearm?” She immediately opened her car’s console and brought out a Glock .40 cal. “Sir, mind you it is loaded and there is a bullet in the chamber.” Expertly, she handed it to the officer handle-first and he temporarily put it on the top of her car. “And, sir, I have another one …” she said, reaching under the driver’s seat to grasp a 9 mm. Beretta. “It too is loaded, with a round in the chamber,