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Offline GreyGeek

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Total Background checks since 1998
« on: May 03, 2013, 05:55:35 PM »
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/nics/reports/total-nics-background-checks-1998_2013_monthly_yearly_totals-033113.pdf

It shows that there were 169,984,008 background checks since November of 1998, and 73,219,367 since Pres. Obama took office in 2008.  Checks reached a peak in December of last year, at 2,783,765.

For this year the checks seem to be slowing down, which fairs well for ammo shortages:
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Year    Jan            Feb            March         April
2013   2,495,440      2,309,393      2,209,407   1,714,433