All-Time One-Day Record
Black Friday Best-Seller: Guns
There were 129,166 requests to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS)–a third more than the previous record of 97,848 on Black Friday 2008, FBI spokesman Stephen Fischer said. On Black Friday last year, there were 87,061 requests.
One Response to “All-Time One-Day Record”
Blogads
Here’s the article from MSNBC http://bottomline.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/12/05/9227335-ready-aim-buy-why-gun-sales-spiked-on-black-friday it’s a much more gun-positive slant than on ABC the other day, which hinted that it was only gun nuts who spiked sales, not first timers; that article also under represented the % of gun owners.
Here’s the USA Today article http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2011-12-01/gun-sales-up-black-friday/51554972/1 which is also slightly positive. I like how the anti spokesperson says it’s of “no real significance”; oh yeah? Okay, whatever, dude.