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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Thu Dec 3, 2015, 02:03 PM Dec 2015

Americans Bought Enough Guns On Black Friday To Arm The Marine Corps

http://truthuncensored.net/americans-bought-enough-guns-on-black-friday-to-arm-the-marine-corps/

According to the FBI spokesman Stephen Fischer said Black Friday shattered the single-day record for gun sales – with 185,345 background checks processed in a 24 hour period.

The number breaks down to slightly more than two background checks, or enough firearms to arm each of the 182,000 active duty members of the United States Marine Corps. Semper Fi!

Those numbers ignore the 20 states that allow licensed concealed carriers to forego background checks on each purchase, in compliance with ATF guidelines. That means the number of firearms purchased on Black Friday is likely more than 200,000.

And that’s freaking awesome.


Now that puts the Black in Black Friday.
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Americans Bought Enough Guns On Black Friday To Arm The Marine Corps (Original Post) KamaAina Dec 2015 OP
Nothing like having one of these bozos threaten to kill you. Buzz Clik Dec 2015 #1
We've all seen what has happened to the threshold of "threat" phantom power Dec 2015 #4
Sign of the times - I remember when Black Friday packman Dec 2015 #2
This doesn't begin to cover Runningdawg Dec 2015 #3
Shhhh! Goddammit, it was supposed to be a surprise! n/t Orsino Dec 2015 #5
Devolution. moondust Dec 2015 #6
 

Buzz Clik

(38,437 posts)
1. Nothing like having one of these bozos threaten to kill you.
Thu Dec 3, 2015, 02:06 PM
Dec 2015

"If I felt you were a threat to me or my family, I would not hesitate to kill you."

We've all seen what has happened to the threshold of "threat". "Hey, he sneezed so hard, he scared the shit outta me. So I killed him."

phantom power

(25,966 posts)
4. We've all seen what has happened to the threshold of "threat"
Thu Dec 3, 2015, 03:09 PM
Dec 2015

This ^^^

If anything, that frightens me more than the actual guns. Guns carried around by a bunch of paranoid people in an eternal state of Defcon-2.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
2. Sign of the times - I remember when Black Friday
Thu Dec 3, 2015, 02:24 PM
Dec 2015

was the time to buy that big-ass television or some other silly thing. Now, it appears, it is the gun-nuts looking for a bargain killing tool.

Runningdawg

(4,514 posts)
3. This doesn't begin to cover
Thu Dec 3, 2015, 03:00 PM
Dec 2015

those who bought guns through private sources. We are looking to buy a used car and a man that works with my husband told us there was a good place on FB to find them in your area. It's called Thing For Sale in a Man's world (no rules). Not many cars but a whole lot of guns, cross bows, reloading equipment, high capacity mags, tactical clothes....
Close the fucking loopholes!

moondust

(19,966 posts)
6. Devolution.
Thu Dec 3, 2015, 03:43 PM
Dec 2015

Increasing numbers of cave men and cave women are just plain fed up with civilization and its unreasonable demands on the feral population.

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