Americans Bought Guns At A Record-Setting Clip On Black Friday

The Blaze ^ | 11-29-2014 | Zach Noble

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Zach Noble, The Blaze
November 29, 2014

Forget the Xboxes, iPhones and Tickle Me Elmos — Americans were really going crazy for guns this Black Friday, in record-setting numbers.

The typical Black Friday boom in gun sales doubles the number of background checks handled by the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS), from one per second on an average day to two per second.

By Friday afternoon, that figure had reached three checks per second, CNN reported, putting 2014 on track to blow past the prior Black Friday record of 144,758 FBI-processed gun transactions in a single day.

A customer shops for a handgun at Freddie Bear Sports on June 16, 2014 in Tinley Park, Illinois.

“We are averaging three checks per second,” FBI spokesman Stephen Fischer said on Friday afternoon.

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Must be those racist Tea Party terrorists, eh?

The first gun I ever owned I bought the first day of the Rodney King riots. I bought three that day.

I don't know how many I have now.

[MUDDOG]

Yep, “Black” Friday is racis’.

[goldstategop]

Ferguson Friday!

Thanks to Ferguson - it was the best publicity you could have for getting yourself armed.

And remember - the police won’t be there when you really need them. Its up to YOU to protect your property and your family.

No one else will.

[chajin]

Americans Bought Guns At A Record-Setting Clip

But did they buy clips at a record-setting gun...

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Wouldn’t that be a “Record-Setting Magazine”?

LOL...just making a little joke.:-)

[SpaceBar]

It’s not a clip, it’s a magazine. /s

[Graybeard58]

I’m gun poor, I have one gun, my wife has two.

Are there any government gimmedats for gun poor people like us?

[immadashell]

Yep, “Black” Friday is racis’.

It used to mean the day America's retailers saw annual earnings move from the red zone (loss) to black (profit).

[mountn man]

You beat me to it.

[DoughtyOne]

The Brown effect...


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GMTA! LOL!

[left that other site]

Indeed. I have only two. Only one for each hand.

Not only that, but I am a poor senior citizen widow.

Can I get a subsidy?

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Americans Bought Guns At A Record-Setting Clip On Black Friday

It's not a clip, it's a magazine!

Oh, wait.

Never mind.

[Blue Jays]

"It used to mean the day America's retailers saw annual earnings move from the red zone (loss) to black (profit)."

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LOL! ;-)
I am pretty confident MUD DOG knows that tidbit of economic info!

[Blue Jays]

Good catch, though. :-)

[VRW Conspirator]

About the only positive thing that Obama did was to cause the firearm industry to boom - salesman of the decade award.

[LibWhacker]

I curse the day I chose brain surgery over gun store ownership. ;-)

[MUDDOG]

I can use all the help I can get!

[USMCPOP]

"I’m gun poor, I have one gun, my wife has two. Are there any government gimmedats for gun poor people like us?"

Well, you might qualify for this combination Obamaphone/firearm.

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Then I scrolled all the comments and noticed someone else said the same thing...GMTA.