Welcome, new gun owners!
7 min readApr 13, 2020
According an estimate from Small Arms Analytics, Americans acquired 2,583,238 firearms in March. That’s an increase of more than 85% from March 2019. The FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System processed 3,740,688, a single-month record that overwhelmed the system, forcing many buyers to wait days instead of minutes for an approval.