Americans bought enough guns on Black Friday to arm Marine Corps!

Everyone knew Black Friday would be a huge sales day for firearms among other things, but this puts it in a nice Patriotic perspective.

http://controversialtimes.com/polit...riday-to-arm-the-marine-corps/?utm_source=LNL

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According to the FBI spokesman Stephen Fischer said Black Friday shattered the single-day record for gun sales – with 185,345 background checks processed in a 24 hour period.

The number breaks down to slightly more than two background checks per second, or enough firearms to arm each of the 182,000 active duty members of the United States Marine Corps.

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The FBI says you can't use a 1 to 1 correlation but since you can have several firearms (up to 30 long guns if I remember), its a safe enough bet. From someone who spent a lot of time in a gun shop, I've seen people purchase more than 1 gun on a single form far more times than someone fill out a form and not buy anything (whether it was getting denied or any other reason).

Keep up the good work my fellow Americans!

BSA1 said:

However the more gunowners the more difficult it is to pass more restrictive gun laws.

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Exactly. I'm happy to see more purchases because it means it is that much harder to take them away.

It won't be long before we break 400 million firearms in the U.S. That's a lot that can be buried, hidden, stored away. And we've hardly dipped our toe in home 3D metal printers.

ontarget said:

I am curious how many of those sales were to first time gun owners? Or as gifts to first time owners? Are we adding new owners or are we just adding more guns? I'm all about adding guns so don't take this question wrong I was just curious if these stats even exist?

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There's no stats because, think about it, whenever you do a form you don't answer those questions except to maybe a curious individual.

My money would be mostly on existing gun owners adding to their collection, followed by gifts. Although my home state of Maine is a good example, where we just enacted Constitutional Carry where you don't need a permit to conceal carry, and a lot of people have been buying handguns for that (and still signing up for training, magine that).

Wally - Admiral Yamamoto was credited with that quote but it skeptical that he actually said it. (Doesn't stop me from having it on my desktop background on my laptop).

Gtscotty - You are correct, it is only the NICS checks so basically that's only in store purchases.

stressed said:

I'm glad to hear this honestly. Now manufacture more, and arm more.

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You sir, get a gold star.

kcofohio said:

Mine is a "Cyber Monday" sale. Wondering how that will add to the mix.

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That statistic is only for those who did their background checks in the stores on Black Friday, so everyone like you and me who ordered one but didn't pick it up at their local FFL isn't counted, so the actual count is much higher but can't really be accurately tracked.