February second highest all-time for background checks on firearm sales
7:00am Friday, March 12, 2010
Data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,243,211 checks in February 2010, ranking the month the second highest February (eighth highest month overall) for most NICS checks.
This figure, while being a 1.3 percent decrease from the 1,259,078 checks conducted in February 2009 -- the early stage of an ongoing surge in firearms and ammunition sales -- is an increase of 21.7 percent over checks in February 2008.
The total number of background checks reported since the beginning of NICS is 112,380,272.
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