Gun background checks are set to outpace last year’s record of nearly 40 million, with FBI figures showing that the first six months of 2021 have already seen 56 percent of the volume of background checks conducted in all of 2020.
In the six months through 2021, federal authorities have conducted 22.2 million background checks, compared to 19.2 million by the same point last year, according to the FBI’s monthly NICS firearm check data.
