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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 07:54 PM Dec 2015

Black Friday Breaks Record With 185,000 Gun Background Checks

More Americans had their backgrounds checked purchasing guns on Black Friday than any day in the on record, according to data released by the FBI this week.

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System processed 185,345 requests on November 27, one of the largest retail sales days in the country.

"This was an approximate 5% increase over the 175,754 received on Black Friday 2014," wrote Stephen Fischer, the FBI's chief of multimedia productions. "The previous high for receipts were the 177,170 received on 12/21/2012."

Previous spikes for background checks, conducted before a gun buyer can obtain a firearm, occurred after prominent mass shootings, like in December 2012 in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Other Black Friday shopping days in 2014, 2013 and 2012 occupied the FBI's "top 10" list of the most background checks processed in a 24-hour period.

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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/12/01/black-friday-breaks-record-185k-gun-background-checks/76624604/

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Black Friday Breaks Record With 185,000 Gun Background Checks (Original Post) Purveyor Dec 2015 OP
That is what we want background checks yeoman6987 Dec 2015 #1
I'm sure someone will try to resurrect the Protruding Handgrip Ban. benEzra Dec 2015 #3
Excellent news! Kang Colby Dec 2015 #2
That should translate into about 120,000 guns sold. krispos42 Dec 2015 #4
Don't forget some states don't even require NICS on CCW holders. darkangel218 Dec 2015 #7
It was crazy busy all week at my local stores DonP Dec 2015 #5
There were some great deals I noticed in ads...can't blame people for pouncing. ileus Dec 2015 #6
+1 darkangel218 Dec 2015 #8
 

yeoman6987

(14,449 posts)
1. That is what we want background checks
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 08:08 PM
Dec 2015

Glad to see they are listening to liberals for a change. Gun control is happening this year.

benEzra

(12,148 posts)
3. I'm sure someone will try to resurrect the Protruding Handgrip Ban.
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 10:23 PM
Dec 2015

Rifles kill maybe half as many people as bicycles do annually, but Wrong Shaped Rifle Stocks are ostensibly an existential threat to 'Murrica, so...

 

Kang Colby

(1,941 posts)
2. Excellent news!
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 08:10 PM
Dec 2015

I was at the range on Friday, and their retail counter was busy. Several women were buying their first handgun and guys were picking up rifles. The day before Thanksgiving was also very busy, I was at Walmart picking up some ammo and there were at least 1/2 dozen people in line buying rifles at 8:45pm.

This little guy got one too:

krispos42

(49,445 posts)
4. That should translate into about 120,000 guns sold.
Tue Dec 1, 2015, 11:02 PM
Dec 2015

The ratio of guns sold to background checks performed is roughly 2:3.

 

DonP

(6,185 posts)
5. It was crazy busy all week at my local stores
Wed Dec 2, 2015, 11:16 AM
Dec 2015

Both range and sales counter were backed up and they had extra people on staff all week.

The owner told me that it's been like that for the last 4 or 5 years, I'm sure the new Illinois CCW law helped some of it along, but I think it's become more "acceptable" to the masses to buy a firearm as a gift (even if it's for yourself).

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