4,000 pounds of aluminum for AR receivers per week. That is a lot of lowers! 104 tons of aluminum just for lowers per year.
That’s great!!
4,000 pounds of aluminum for AR receivers per week. That is a lot of lowers! 104 tons of aluminum just for lowers per year.
The numbers for August show a continued cooling but still respectable 2,715,223 NICS Checks preformed. The number for August is down from last years record setting 3,115,063 but was still greater than any other August total since NICS inception.
The sub total for the January through August period is a solid 27,841,119 year to date with still 4 months remaining in the year. And the total NICS Checks number since the program began in 1998 was 400,540,500.
So 7% of all NICS checks over roughly 23 years were sold thus far this year alone.
Through August is about 2/3 of the year, so that 7% is more like 10.5% of NICS checks over about 4.3% of time.
Over double, close to 2.5x, not as good as I expected, but pretty darn good - especially because in states like mine, I don't think we count because we can buy with our Carry permits. I don't think that was the case back in '98.
Maybe what matters more is, and this is just my perception, that guns these days are purchased for protection, not for sport - AR-15 being the most common by many metrics.
Since you like crunching numbers here is the NICS by month since inception:
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_-_month_year.pdf/view
And there are lots of other Reports & Statistics here:
https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/nics
I still can’t find things I’m looking for
I still can’t find things I’m looking for
1. Those records only date back to 1968 .
2. NICS numbers don't account for used firearms , either long time previously held , or newer ones traded in after short time. Nor for private sales in most of Free America .
What we don't know is how many are lost in boating accidents.
J I don't know anyone who has made their own barrels.[/QUOTE said:Probably not many. Making a rifled barrel (especially rifle length, pistol isn't quite as hard) with the tolerances necessary for modern jacketed smokeless ammo requires very specialized equipment, or very high machinist skill with somewhat less specialized gear, and lots of free time.
Here's a video of someone who built his own button rifling press:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq2Bc2WDsLA
U2, huh?