The FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System, known as NICS, records the number of background checks. Since the system was started 21 years ago, the FBI has conducted 330,067,172 ...

Pennsylvania State Police on Tuesday reported a record number of firearm background checks between July 1 and Sept. 30. In the third quarter of 2020, the Pennsylvania Instant Check System ...

On Black Friday, t he FBI reports there were 202, 465 gun background checks. The FBI emphasizes these numbers do not reflect the number of guns purchased and say they also include current owners ...