A new policy was implemented last week by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), which seeks to collect the addresses of gun purchasers in a bid to comply with new federal law. Federally licensed firearms dealers (FFLs) will now be required to provide the FBI with the personal addresses of individuals who…

An industry trade group has found that at least 5.4 million Americans purchased a firearm for the first time in 2021 (pdf), based on retailer surveys and background checks, with one in three buyers being women. Out of all firearm buyers, nearly 30 percent were first-timers. This is a decrease of 10 percent from 2020…

Gun background checks are set to outpace last year’s record of nearly 40 million, with FBI figures showing that in the first half of 2021, they’re at around 56 percent of what they were for all of 2020. In the six months through June 2021, federal authorities conducted 22.2 million background checks, compared to 19.2…