The title says it all. Even if the source is Newsweek.
The number of gun sales and background checks completed in President Joe Biden‘s first year in office is nearing the combined numbers done during the first years for former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama.
According to data from the FBI‘s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), there have been 35,778,134 gun background checks in 2021. The data for Biden’s first year does not include December and instead is the total number of gun background checks from January to November 2021.
Comparatively, during Trump’s first year in office in 2017, the NICS database shows that there were 25,235,215 gun background checks. In 2009, Obama’s first year in office, the NICS database shows 14,033,824 total gun background checks. The data for both Trump and Obama includes gun background checks from January to December in each of the two respective years.
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