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Showing Original Post only (View all)Prepare for mass shootings like we've never seen before in the coming year [View all]
Last edited Tue Dec 1, 2015, 10:49 PM - Edit history (1)
Because psychos are stocking up on firearms like never before
Black Friday breaks record with 185K 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.
Since 1998, FBI data shows that the bureau has processed requests for more than 220 million firearm purchases.
Licensed sellers deny sales to failed background checks based on a variety of factors including criminal backgrounds, domestic violence convictions or restraining orders.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2015/12/01/black-friday-breaks-record-185k-gun-background-checks/76624604/
I'm afraid we've lost on the stricter background check front.
You can't push for stricter background checks on psychos who already have guns. I think we have to start pushing for confiscations and outright bans.
What else can we realistically do?
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Prepare for mass shootings like we've never seen before in the coming year [View all]
951-Riverside
Dec 2015
OP
All I want for Xmas .... Happy holiday gun shopping everyone( gonna guess not a lot of
Person 2713
Dec 2015
#1
The murder rate in the US has been declining for decades in the face of more gun sales
linuxman
Dec 2015
#63
Yeah, sane people run out and buy gunz after every mass shooting. Sane people promote gunz too.
Hoyt
Dec 2015
#39
Since you mention being realistic, who is it that goes out into the public and confiscates guns?
Township75
Dec 2015
#14
Gun humpers infiltrate online forums from politics to needlepoint to push their agenda.
onehandle
Dec 2015
#21
Of course not, 99% of gun prohibitionists are chickenhawks whose 'activism'...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#30
OK, you must not understand what liberal topics are. I think I get it now. Looking forward.....
Logical
Dec 2015
#47
I've noticed this too, GGJohn you seem to have an alert set up for anything firearm related
951-Riverside
Dec 2015
#48
You do use the "come and take em" argument a lot. And yoy go to gun shows and ranges,
Hoyt
Dec 2015
#68
I know, you've never even heard the NRA's "from my cold dead hands.". Pretty much same thing.
Hoyt
Dec 2015
#77
Gunners intimidate? Didn't the OP suggest bans and confiscation of peoples property? Now
Waldorf
Dec 2015
#72
You're right Liz, 308 mass shootings is a small fraction of the 12,166 gun deaths so far this year
951-Riverside
Dec 2015
#115
Did you get your degree in telepsychology from the same school the OP did?
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#52
lol...there isn't anyone doing any confiscation and it is ludicrous to suggest it...
pipoman
Dec 2015
#64
Mass shootngs are incredibley rare, as are all gun deaths caused by rifles.
Snobblevitch
Dec 2015
#79
I'm curious how many of these checks were for first time buyers vs. existing owners
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#102
This is scary. It means more mass shootings, more cops killing unarmed civilians
ecstatic
Dec 2015
#121
Foreign ?...or domestic psychos ? ....let me guess which one you meant....lol. nt
clarice
Dec 2015
#123
Chill....I didn't say it was funny. And there is no POINT, just a question. nt
clarice
Dec 2015
#131
Some of the bible thumping gun nuts probably think the 2nd Amendment
Zing Zing Zingbah
Dec 2015
#153
That's how they sound whenever they spout off about "da constituuuuuuuuuuuuuuution"
Daniel537
Dec 2015
#154