The FBI has released its National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) figures for December 2010. NSSF-adjusted figures (1,133,371) show a 9.9% increase over NSSF-adjusted figures from December 2009 (1,031,344).
For calendar year 2010, the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure of 9,436,182 is a decrease of 1% over the NSSF-adjusted figure of 9,534,131 in calendar year 2009.
In comparison, the unadjusted NICS figure of 14,320,489 for calendar year 2010 is an increase 2.4% over the unadjusted NICS figure of 13,984,953 in calendar year 2009.
The adjusted NICS data were derived by NSSF by subtracting out NICS purpose-code permit checks used by several states such as Kentucky and Utah for CCW permit application checks as well as checks on active CCW permit databases.
