Black Friday breaks record with 185K gun background checks

[Jesus Malverde]

Source: USA Today

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.


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

[onehandle]

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[LiberalElite]

2. Hmm. How does this fit with the holiday theme of "Peace on Earth Good Will To Men" (sic) eom

[jmowreader]

5. For 185,000 people, it's now "Piece on Earth."

[LiberalElite]

6. Heh. eom

[7962]

3. Probably another 50k in person to person sales.

Lots of them for sale that way

[pipoman]

4. Demonstrates the possibilities for making NICS available for private sales

Since typically there are only around 55k per day...

[happyslug]

7. Deer season in Pennsylvania started the following monday

Thus it may be more long arms then pistols. Hunting season is it the fall. In Pennsylvania the first day of Buck Season is the Monday after Thanksgiving. When I went to the City of Pittsburgh schools close, that svhool district closed down for that Holiday.

This is also the case in the State of Ohio.

Maryland's firearm season started the Saturday after Thanksgiving.