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More than 200,000 background checks take longer than three business days every year.
Everytown Research analysis of Federal Bureau of Investigation, NICS Operations Reports 2015–2019, https://bit.ly/36nWN6X. Between 2015 and 2019, 1,421,928 checks were delayed past three business days, or an average of 284,386 checks every year.