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What You Need to Know About Gun Background Checks

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It’s hard to know just how many guns are sold in America, and the number of background checks is generally used as an indicator of whether Americans are rushing to buy more firearms. FBI numbers for this year indicate that 2016 may be on track to break the record for the most firearm background checks performed since the system was created in 1998.

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