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In reply to the discussion: I no longer give two f*cks about your 2nd Amendment rights. [View all]Left2Tackle
(64 posts)"Black Friday shoppers put off by crowds, hitting the Internet, perhaps fearing terrorism came out in fewer numbers this past weekend. Yet the lack of enthusiasm for standing in line in dark parking lots did not prevent a historic spike in firearm background checks on Nov. 27, when 185,345 were processed a record."
"This was an approximate 5% increase over the 175,754 received on Black Friday 2014, Stephen Fischer, the FBIs chief of multimedia productions, wrote to USA Today. The previous high for receipts were the 177,170 received on 12/21/2012? a week after Adam Lanza killed 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/12/02/black-friday-saw-most-federal-gun-background-checks-ever-processed-in-a-single-day/