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Showing Original Post only (View all)Single day record: over 200,000 FBI gun checks on Black Friday [View all]
By Jared Leone, Cox Media Group National Content Desk
... There were 203,086 requests received by the bureaus National Instant Criminal Background Check System, according to USA Today.
The previous single-day records, both on Black Friday, were 185,713 last year and 185,345 in 2015.
Gun checks are not a measure of the actual number of guns sold. Multiple firearms can be purchased in a single transaction by the same buyer ...
http://www.mystatesman.com/news/national/fbi-fields-more-than-200-000-gun-checks-single-day-record-black-friday/uZKrdZIlmogqXoy2NHuhIM/
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Single day record: over 200,000 FBI gun checks on Black Friday [View all]
struggle4progress
Nov 2017
OP
There was a story a couple months ago that the Secret Service is not happy with the way
dflprincess
Nov 2017
#31
You are right. Gunners are giving to the NRA, militia groups, MAGA, defend Stand Your Ground, and
Hoyt
Nov 2017
#18
This does not include the 4 or 5 states that do not have to do the telephone call
oneshooter
Nov 2017
#19