Somewhat interesting NICS graph

Did something significant occur in November of 2008?

mmmm.... Sarcasm.....

that's just a flyer, nothing to see here

Almost 100,000 guns in a day, Awesome.

I'm a little surprised there were no days in Sept/Oct 2001 on the list. I recall seeing a similar buying frenzy depicted in the media to what we have going on now.

Almost 100,000 guns in a day, Awesome

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That's 97,848 background checks. There is no way of knowing how many guns, though I'm quite sure it was well over 100K, even if you factor in the denials.

that's just a flyer, nothing to see here

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Yeah, jeepmor, when I shoot a really good group, I often think that my flyer was completely off target, so the fifth hole which ideally enters somewhere inside the third and second holes really never hit the paper.

November 28, 2008 was "Black Friday" this year. Maybe we should rename the busiest shopping day of the year. Maybe call it "EBR Friday."

seeing a graph like that makes me happy.

Clearly this is a case of people that were doing some early Christmas shopping. Nothing unusual in that.

But if those high numbers continued through December and January...

PS: I copied the chart. Need to include it with letters to certain legislators...

Interesting that most of the top days for NICS checks are in the last shopping days before Christmas. Straw purchases, I presume.

I see Y2K still is on the charts. That thing was indirectly responsible for quite a few deaths up here. People bought generators for Y2K, stored them for years, then broke them out for whichever ice storm next interrupted their power. Untrained in their use, they ran them in basements and garages, and asphyxiated themselves.

yeah, as in there are alot of gun owners out there and quite a few new ones, and we ALL VOTE!!!!

What was intersting to me was the huge spike after Thanksgiving and only a usual number before Christmas Eve.
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Just about every sporting goods store put guns on sale that day. Combine that with the Obamanation and you get PROFIT (for gun sellers anyways).

I think Barack Obama has to be the most successful firearms salesman in United States history, maybe world history.

By "salesman", I mean he has convinced hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people to purchase firearms and ammunition. No advertising campaign could have been as successful as his election to the presidency.