Black Friday Best-Seller: Guns
December 3rd, 2011Via: ABC News:
Americans were big spenders on Black Friday–especially on guns.
Numbers from the Federal Bureau of Investigation show an all-time one-day high for background check requests from gun buyers last Friday. 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.
The numbers, first reported in USA Today, reflect the experience of gun-sellers on the ground. “It was the biggest rush we ever had. Some of the people at the gate sent their kid running to the gun counter to get in line,” said Tom Ritzer, store manager at MC Sports in Springfield, Mo., which opened its doors at 5 a.m. on Black Friday. Gun buyers had to wait until NICS opened at 7 before they could leave with their purchases, he said.
Good news on this end of Posse Comitatus day.
When you go to buy a gun/guns, the call to NICS has to happen. But you can have one, two, or how many ever you can afford(barring state restrictions), so the 129,166 could be any number really. A very small percentage would have been denied, but I bet the actual number of ones sold are far more than the NICS requests made.
And I know Ohio recently passed a “gun rights restoration” bill that went into effect in the last month or two. So, many people chomping at the bit probably got their liberty tool as an early Christmas present.
Hell yeah!