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General Topics => General Discussion => Topic started by: rklapp on November 27, 2017, 06:51:11 PM
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fear-big-sales-propelled-record-breaking-black-friday-gun-checks-n824276
Want to sell more guns? Talk about gun control — or offer customers a killer deal.
Fear of a crackdown in the wake of the recent massacres in Las Vegas and Texas appears to be one of the reasons why Black Friday was a banner day for gun buyers, with the FBI reporting a record 203,086 background checks for weapons purchases on the day after Thanksgiving, arms merchants and gun control experts told NBC News on Monday.
"We had the best Black Friday day of sales ever," said Michael Cargill, owner of Central Texas Gun Works in Austin, Texas. “We just had a church shooting here in Texas, so people are talking about increasing security and buying guns for security teams.”
Asked to explain the Black Friday gun check surge, Miller said one the reasons could also very well be as mundane as people having more expendable cash to spend on weapons.
“Are people doing better economically now?” he said. “I think a lot of this has to do with guns being on sale. That’s my hunch.”
Gun sales, which skyrocketed when President Barack Obama was in office, have actually “declined or at least levelled off under President Trump," Webster said.
That’s largely because Trump hasn’t pushed for gun control, not even after some of the deadliest massacres in U.S. history, experts said. And because there’s “some degree of saturation.”
“Those who want guns have them and have enough of them,” Webster said. “Obama was good for the gun lobby to use as a foil to make people believe that Obama was after their guns. I don’t think Barack Obama did anything that would have warranted that response. But the people who were most vulnerable to the gun lobby’s claims may also have greater suspicions about the first African-American president.”
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The highest background check days are usually right after Thanksgiving. About 1/2 of the top 10 highest days ever are late November
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/nics_firearm_checks_top_10_highest_days_weeks.pdf
The FBI keeps pretty up to date records
https://www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/nics
It is interesting to note that in Hawaii the records in NICS are all mental health (except for 4)
https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/active-records-in-the-nics-indices-by-state.pdf
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Wow, only 17 active records in Montana. Must be filled with model citizens...
So what's up with Pennsylvania?
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I think it also shows how broken the background check system is. 430,000 fugitives from Justice in Massachusetts but none in Florida? only 2 felonies in Oregon reported?
Only 600 total illegal aliens reported on the entire list?
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I don't think it's fear that drives the sales on BF, but more deals.
I did talk to a guy from CA and he mentioned that AR's are hard to find there, and have been for a few months now.
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I think people tend to budget and have funds available for sales. I know I usually try to have some funds read for deal. In my case, I found a bunch of deals in the weeks ahead of BF, but I also bought some things because I wanted them for this weekend and then they went on sale on BF :grrr: