Daily Caller: The FBI received the most background check requests for gun purchases in a single day on Black Friday.
According to the FBI over 200,000 background check requests for guns were requested this year on Black Friday, which beat the previous single-day high of 185,713 on Black Friday 2016, USA Today reported.
The number comes as Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a comprehensive review of the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System Wednesday in regards to the deadly Sutherland Springs, Texas, church shooting in early November which left 25 people dead.
The Sutherland Springs church shooter was former Air Force enlisted-man Devin Kelley, who under U.S. law should not have been able to purchase a firearm. Kelley was convicted of domestic violence against his former wife and stepson in 2012. He reportedly beat his wife during that incident and fractured his stepson’s skull.
The main focus of Sessions’s orders to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives was to “work with the Department of Defense to identify and resolve any issues with the military’s reporting of convictions and other information relevant to determining prohibited person status under 18 U.S.C. § 922(g).”
Friday’s background check requests for gun purchases shows the number of guns attempted to be purchased in the U.S. is rising.
Why so many purchases now that the gay, commie, crotch and gun grabbing, law breaking, treasonous Kenyan is out of office? Or, are folks enjoying more disposable income now that he’s gone?
I don’t know why so many purchases happened but, it certainly sends a message to “those who would disarm us.”
I’m wondering whether it’s because the economy is so strong, or perhaps the first year wave of Dems going ‘omg, I have to protect myself from my government!’
Of course the latter is always true.
suckers. The lines were shorter by the end of the weekend.
Sale prices, rebates, and a insultingly defiant Deep State
Simple economics. Purchases go up when prices go down. You can buy an AR-15 for about $300 today. 5 years ago, because of Sandy Hook, that same AR-15 was nearly $1000.
“When moments count, police or no more than 10 minutes away”
“Simple economics. Purchases go up when prices go down. You can buy an AR-15 for about $300 today.”
A decent barrel runs about $150.00. A decent BCG runs about $125.00. Those are my prices (dealer cost). I’m not sure I’d want to pull the trigger on even a $500.00 AR.
Why so many background checks? conservatives can see that the left is ratcheting up the rhetoric and the violence. The conservatives in the blue states know they’ve got a bulls-eye on their backs
Molon Labe
Prices dropping on ammo too.Bigly time!