Black Friday breaks record with 185K gun background checks

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Black Friday breaks record with 185K gun background checks

More Americans had their backgrounds checked purchasing guns on Black Friday than any day on record, according to data released by the FBI this week.

The National Instant Criminal Background Check System processed 185,345 requests on Nov. 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

Other Black Friday shopping days in 2014, 2013 and 2012 occupied the FBI's "top 10" list of the most background checks processed in a 24-hour period.

Since 1998, FBI data shows that the bureau has processed requests for more than 220 million firearm purchases.

Licensed sellers deny sales to failed background checks based on a variety of factors including criminal backgrounds, domestic violence convictions or restraining orders.

Friday's purchases came the same day as the mass shooting incident in Colorado Springs that killed three people and injured nine others.

On Saturday, President Obama called for tighter controls of "weapons of war" in the wake of the Planned Parenthood shooting.

"This is not normal," Obama said. "We can't let it become normal. If we truly care about this — if we're going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience — then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them. Period. Enough is enough."

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

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[Teddy B 17,252]

"This is not normal," Obama said. "We can't let it become normal. If we truly care about this — if we're going to offer up our thoughts and prayers again, for God knows how many times, with a truly clean conscience — then we have to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war on our streets to people who have no business wielding them. Period. Enough is enough."

I couldn't agree more!

[lostinblue 1,989]

[JohnR! 5,495]

[smilesammich 10,727]

hmm. don't think too highly of men do ya lib?

[lostinblue 1,989]

[JohnR! 5,495]

I couldn't agree more!

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Nothing says Christmas like a shiny new gun!

[smilesammich 10,727]

parents' fault. everyone knows gun safety begins at home.

[Dakine10 5,452]

If we armed all toddlers, it could only make law abiding toddlers safer.

[lostinblue 1,989]

_{Medical Malpractice Deaths Nine Times Higher Than Gun Homicides - Let's End the AMA
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_{As a group, doctors are 43.2 times more dangerous than gun owners, and undergoing major surgery is 21 times more dangerous than allowing others to own guns.}

_{Clearly we need to ban doctors and surgery as unreasonable threats to our safety.}

[GandD 5,966]

So....... Obama isn't taking our guns?

[JohnR! 5,495]

Apparently not... As a Xmas present Obama decided to let Americans keep their guns and toothbrushes....

So....... Obama isn't taking our guns?

[eieio 1,594]

185,000 in one day......220,000,000 since 1998.

Nice!!!!

Obama has been incredible at increasing gun sales.

If anyone wants to give a gun to a relatively poor, affable, Japanese American (recent race change) for Christmas pm me and I will give you my address.

A browning t-bolt in .223 caliber with any Nikon scope would really make this the best Christmas ever.

Thank you in advance homies.