Gun background checks: February is third-biggest month ever
Gun background checks: February is third-biggest month ever - Mar. 2, 2016
February was the third-biggest month on record for gun background checks, according to data released Wednesday by the FBI.
Background checks, which the FBI conducts every time someone tries to buy a gun from a federally licensed dealer, rose to 2.6 million in February, according to the bureau.
February's total falls short of the record set in December, 2015, when 3.3 million background checks were recorded.