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Black Friday Gun Sales Hit New Record High
Overwhelming demand crashes FBI background check center
Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com
November 27, 2012
I purchased a new AR-15 and a bunch of 30-round clips...
... 1,000 rounds of ammo in the can...,
On Cyber Monday I got stocking stuffers... GAT triggers for the AR and AK...
Life is good (and worth fighting for!).
Overwhelming demand crashes FBI background check center
Paul Joseph Watson, Infowars.com
November 27, 2012
Black Friday gun sales hit an all time record high last week with demand for new firearms so overwhelming that it caused outages at the FBI background check center on two separate occasions.
Fueled by fears that the Obama administration will go after gun rights during a lame duck term, the FBI reported 154,873 background check requests on Friday – a 20 per cent increase on last year’s record total of 129,166 checks.
The number of guns sold could actually be double or more that figure because only one background check is recorded per sale even if buyers purchase multiple firearms.
“With the recent election, some people are making buying decisions just in case something (new law) happens,” Don Gallardo, manager of Shooter’s World in Phoenix, told USA Today.
Gun stores noted that first time gun owners and women represented a significant number of those purchasing firearms on Black Friday.
Gun sales were so brisk that the FBI’s Instant Background Check center was overwhelmed with the volume of requests and crashed on two separate occasions. Some even saw the outages as an insidious way of providing “anti-gunners a clue about how to suspend the Second Amendment.”
President Obama indicated during the presidential debates that he would pursue an assault weapons ban, which second amendment activists see as merely the first step towards wider gun control regulation.
I purchased a new AR-15 and a bunch of 30-round clips...
On Cyber Monday I got stocking stuffers... GAT triggers for the AR and AK...