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February 7, 2023

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Background checks, ammo and gun sales maintain record pace

February 17, 2021 A.P. Dillon

RALEIGH — In 2020, firearm-related background checks, ammunition sales and gun sales all saw record numbers. The pace has continued this year with a record number of background checks performed in January 2021, according to […]

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Background checks, a metric for gun sales, hit all-time high

July 3, 2020 Lisa Marie Pane, Associated Press

Historic numbers of background checks to purchase or possess a firearm were done in June, a trend in a year marked by uncertainty over the coronavirus pandemic, a subsequent economic recession, protests over racial injustice […]

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Background checks for firearms remain high

May 5, 2020 Lisa Marie Pane, Associated Press

The number of April background checks to purchase a firearm showed Americans flocking to gun stores in high numbers for the second month in a row amid worries about the coronavirus pandemic. The FBI numbers […]

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Judge tosses California ammunition purchase law

April 25, 2020 Don Thompson, Associated Press

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal judge blocked a California law requiring background checks for people buying ammunition, issuing a sharply worded rebuke of “onerous and convoluted” regulations that violate the constitutional right to bear arms. […]

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