The previous record was on December 21, 2012, about a week after a deadly shooting rampage at a CT elementary school.
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Consistent with previous years, firearm background checks spiked on Black Friday, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
The FBI started processing background checks for potential gun owners in 1998.
The agency processed 185,345 firearm background checks during the big November 27 shopping holiday, Stephen Fischer of the FBI’s Criminal Justice Information Services Division told ABC News via email.
The FBI had predicted that Black Friday would break records, as it followed unprecedented sales from May through October.
We don’t know for sure the reason for the increase in sales for 2015, but I suspect it has to do with the president agitating once again for more gun control, hinting he may make an end-run around that pesky Constitution and throw down some executive orders. “We think more individuals making the decision to exercise their right to keep and bear arms along with the rising interest in target shooting provide the underlying long-term narrative”.
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No one in history has increased sales for the firearms industry more than Barack Obama. The very purchase of guns, and especially assault weapons, is a statement that they should remain legal and unregulated, that guns themselves are not the problem. In the week following the massacre, a total of 953,613 background checks were processed. The public didn’t even have the benefit of hearing Obama grandstanding for gun control when gun background checks hit the roof. Roughly half of these denials were because of a would-be purchaser’s criminal record. In fear of new restrictions, more people purchase guns sooner rather than later.
