Gun Sales Triple on Black Friday
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The national media were full of reports from retailers of Black Friday consumers driving sales to record levels, with some retailers estimating sales jumping 15 to almost 40 percent over last year.
Missing from the establishment media reports, however, was mention of what was going on inside America’s 48,000 gun retailers. According to the FBI, sales on Black Friday were double what they were last year, and triple the normal day. The FBI, in charge of operating the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, were not only requiring its employees to work 17-hour days to handle the load, but had to hire an additional 100 seasonal workers as well.
The FBI is under pressure to process those background checks because, under the Brady Gun Law, if the FBI fails to process a request within three days, the transfer is allowed to proceed.
With Americans now owning an estimated one weapon per person — more than 300 million firearms — the government is suffering from a growing inability to restrain the freedom of citizens interested in exercising their Second Amendment-protected rights. As another popular bumper sticker says: “The Second Amendment: the one that Insures all the Others.”