The National Shooting Sports Foundation announced data released by the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) reported 1,016,876 checks in May 2010, ranking the month the second highest May for most NICS checks.


This figure, while being a 0.6% decrease from the 1,023,102 checks conducted in May 2009, is an increase of 14.7% over checks in May 2008. The total number of background checks reported since the beginning of NICS is 115,931,009.