From Steve Sailer’s iSteve Blog comes this: Merry Christmas! Record Number of Americans Bought Guns on Black Friday. It’s a reasonable guess that there are some 129,000 more guns in the hands of free American citizens than there were the day before. Huzzah!
Some happy stats (source):
NICS Firearm Background Checks — Friday, November 25, 2011
Total NICS Checks—129,166 (highest day ever) 32.01 percent over Friday, November 28, 2008
Federal Checks—81,609 (highest day ever) 26.69 percent over Friday, November 28, 2008
POC State Checks—47,557 (4th highest day)
Other Records
NICS Contracted Call Centers—69,497 (highest day ever) 16.30 percent over Friday, November 28, 2008
NICS E-Check—11,953 (highest day ever) 119.76 percent over Friday, February 11, 2011
Ht to Maggie’s Farm.