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Record Gun Sales on Black Friday

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 10:31 am
by steveincowtown
Wow...good job to all who helped. I tried to be a part of the numbers, but Academy was out of what I wanted by the time I strolled out at 2:00PM....

Article from USA Today:

"Gun dealers flooded the FBI with background check requests for prospective buyers last Friday, smashing the single-day, all-time high by 32%, according to bureau records."

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/sto ... 51554972/1" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;


Add LOL at this line from the article:

"And the FBI does not track actual gun sales."

Re: Record Gun Sales on Black Friday

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 2:05 pm
by chasfm11
steveincowtown wrote:
Add LOL at this line from the article:

"And the FBI does not track actual gun sales."
I heard this on the radio. What they said was that these statistics were only the number of transactions. A person purchasing multiple guns at the same time would count as only one in these numbers.

Re: Record Gun Sales on Black Friday

Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2011 10:00 pm
by wharvey
At then end of the article the guy from the Brady Center sounded like they think the gun companies bought the guns themselves, I assume for publicity. Can't fix stupid.