Thread: Record Black Friday For Background Checks

MOST SINGLE-DAY CHECKS IN NICS HISTORY . . .

Data derived from the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) shows that Black Friday (Nov. 25) had the most background checks for firearm purchases in a single day (129,166), with a 32 percent increase over the previous NICS high from Nov. 28, 2008. Federal law requires FBI background checks on all individuals purchasing firearms from federally licensed retailers. In an interview with USA Today, NSSF Senior Vice President and General Counsel Lawrence G. Keane attributed the record growth to a "burgeoning awakening of the American public that they do have a constitutional right to own guns."

NOVEMBER NSSF-ADJUSTED NICS BACKGROUND CHECKS UP 16.5% . . . On the heels of Black Friday's record-breaking NICS transactions, the FBI released background check statistics for all of November 2011. NSSF-adjusted NICS figures show an increase of 16.5 percent over the NSSF-adjusted NICS figure for November 2010. This marks the eighteenth straight month that NSSF-adjusted NICS figures have increased when compared to the same period the previous year. Read more.


GUNBROKER.COM POSTS 25% CYBER MONDAY GAIN . . . GunBroker.com reported a 25.4 percent increase in 2011 Cyber Monday sales activity over 2010, signaling a strong final month for online sales of hunting and shooting sports equipment. Cyber Monday, the Monday after Thanksgiving, is considered one of the busiest online shopping days of the year.

Source: National Shooting Sports Foundation

Is part of this increase perhaps attributable to "closing the Gun-Show loophole" in more states? (i.e. Requiring background checks for face-to-face purchases at gun shows.) I don't know, I'm just guessing....

There is no "gun show loophole". It is perfectly legal to sell your own privately owned firearms without a NICS check. All sales from an FFL dealer MUST go through NICS no matter where the sale is conducted.

Originally Posted by deen_ad

It is perfectly legal to sell your own privately owned firearms without a NICS check.

If I'm not mistaken:
1) SOME states require all sales at the gun show to go through a NICS check, and
2) this requirement is commonly referred to as "closing the gun-show loophole".
3) Furthermore, I believe that this is a changing/new requirement in some states, and that might be a contributing factor to increased number of NICS checks.

I agree that the term "gun show loophole" is a slanted term, but it does describe a practice that could potentially affect the # of background checks per year.

FYI: Oregon is one of the few states that require all gun transfers at a gun show to have a background check, and this is a recent change to Oregon law.

NOTE: I am not FOR this law, but am referencing it because it does affect the # of background checks per year.

166.433¹
Findings regarding transfers of firearms
The people of this state find that:

(1) The laws of Oregon regulating the sale of firearms contain a loophole that allows people other than gun dealers to sell firearms at gun shows without first conducting criminal background checks;
(2) It is necessary for the safety of the people of Oregon that any person who transfers a firearm at a gun show be required to request a criminal background check before completing the transfer of the firearm; and
(3) It is in the best interests of the people of Oregon that any person who transfers a firearm at any location other than a gun show be allowed to voluntarily request a criminal background check before completing the transfer of the firearm. [2001 c.1 §1]

This was about Black Friday in particular, so I doubt any gun shows where NICS are required had any effect on NICS checks.
This would just appear to show that gun sales on the day after Thanksgiving was THE best ever since the NICS program was established.

I thought that in the Peoples Repubic of Kalifornia you cannot trtansfer a gun even between law abiding pals without it going through an FFL for the transfer. No?

I bought a Ruger 10/22 @ Bi-Mart on Black Friday... Attempted to anyway.. because the lines to OSP for the check were jammed up until Saturday... THEN the sale was able to be made. There were people 2 & 3 deep @ the gun counter that day.

Originally Posted by Stomper

I bought a Ruger 10/22 @ Bi-Mart on Black Friday... Attempted to anyway.. because the lines to OSP for the check were jammed up until Saturday... THEN the sale was able to be made. There were people 2 & 3 deep @ the gun counter that day.

They had camp chairs by the firearm counter set up when I went in. Probably wishing they were using the electronic check. Instead they probably had a person on hold to the OSP all day.

LOL... Yeah I teased the guy behind the counter and was telling him I would have brought my notebook computer with wireless internet in so they could do it electronically.

Yeah I spent close to an hour on hold with osp that day when i was buying my sons gun. Electronic is soooo much better,faster,easier. I hate buying from ffls who still use paper.

I got hosed as well; 1 hour wait at GB Tigard. When I was done I strolled over to Bi-mart and forked up a few boxes of UMC .40, .45, and 9MM that they had on sale for nearly half price.

Bottom Line - Ready, aim ... buy? Why gun sales spiked on Black Friday

MSNBC gun poll on black Fridays gun sales........"Sure, guns make a great present".....No. Isn’t Christmas supposed to be about peace?...... We're winning....

80% in favor of giving a gun for Christmas!!

In your faces.... BEAT**ES!!