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beevul

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Mon Jun 6, 2016, 04:20 PM Jun 2016

Record Gun Sales Continue Through May [View all]

Record Gun Sales Continue Through May

Thirteen straight months of gun sales records

BY: Stephen Gutowski

June 6, 2016 1:10 pm

The month of May saw yet another gun-related background check record making it the 13th month to see an all time high.

The FBI completed a record 1,870,000 checks through the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS, this May, according to an agency report. That’s almost 300,000 more checks than May of 2015, which set a record at the time.

It is also nearly a million more checks than May 2008.

May was also the first month in 2016 that did not break two million checks as the gun industry enters a seasonal lull in sales. The numbers remain on pace to set another yearly record, however.

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It must be the same 20 million or so people buying guns over and over, right?

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