Dec 272011
Yay!
Gun sales at record levels, according to FBI background checks
In December – which ain’t quite over – gun dealers made 1,534,414 inquiries to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS). On December 23 there were 102,222 background checks. There were 129,166 background checks on the day after Thanksgiving, the busiest gun-buying day in US history. Apparently there were a whole lot of firearms given as Christmas presents… hopefully many of them were to new gunowners. The best thing would be a widening of the gunowner base, rather than just a deepening of it.