Gun sales on Black Friday set a new record in America. Last year's flurry of gun purchases startled a whole lot of observers, and this year, demand was expected to be high, but not as high as last year. Perhaps it was the great sales by retailers that had stocked up anticipating a Hillary victory dumping their stocks. In any event, gun owners bought 368 more than last year for a total of almost 186,000 guns purchased on a single day.
Nice job, everyone!
From Breitbart:
The number of background checks for gun purchases performed on Black Friday 2016 broke the record for Black Friday background checks as well as the overall single day record.
On December 1, 2015, Breitbart News reported that Black Friday 2015 set a Black Friday and overall single day record with 185,345 checks in a 24-hour period. But FBI numbers for November 25, 2016 show that the number of background checks performed on Black Friday 2016 surpassed the 2015 record by a few hundred checks.
According to Business Insider, “the FBI processed 185,713 background checks” on Black Friday 2016.
On November 26, 2016, Breitbart News reported that gun stores were witnessing lines outside their doors that wrapped around the corner. These lines were a welcome sight to store owners who wondered if Hillary Clinton’s defeat might negatively impact gun sales. After all, fears of more gun control had driven gun sales to new highs over the past 18 months and Clinton’s defeat removed gun control fears for all intents and purposes.
But store owners in many locations reported larger crowds on Black Friday 2016 than they had witnessed on Black Friday 2015. And they learned that discounts had a positive draw on customers (versus the negative draw derived from fear). CNN Money quoted Rick Reyes, “manager of LI Outdoorsman, a gun store in Rockville Centre on Long Island, New York,” who said shoppers came in for “discounts of 10% to 50%” rather than “politics.”
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