Black Friday Gun Sales 2nd Best In History

It looks like we have to name the 2019 top salespersons of the year in firearms sales. And that goes especially for Black Friday last week.

That award has to go to the radical leftists of the Democrat Party.

Bearing Arms reported:

The 2019 Christmas shopping season started off with a boom for firearm retailers, with the FBI announcing on Sunday that the number of background checks performed came close to breaking the single day record set in 2017. 

From USA Today: 

In all, the bureau posted 202,465 checks Friday, an 11% increase from last year and falling just short of the single-day record: 203,086 in 2017. 

While background checks, required for purchases at federally licensed firearm dealers, are not a measure of actual gun sales, the National Instant Criminal Background Check System is a way to gauge market demand. The number of firearms sold Friday is likely higher because multiple firearms can be included in one transaction by a single buyer. 

Black Friday traditionally has been one of the busiest for FBI analysts, but this year’s one-day number comes amid rising monthly volumes that are approaching the one-year record of 27.5 million in 2016.

With a difference of less than 1,000 background checks, I think we can safely say that interest in gun purchases is just as high as it was in 2017. In fact, as USA Today notes, we’re getting close to a record number of NICS checked performed, and if sales remain strong for the remainder of the year, I think it we’ll get there.

We can thank gun control advocates for spurring on the sales, as demands by Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke and other failed candidates to ban and confiscate firearms have reminded many Americans of exactly what is at stake in the 2020 election. We don’t know how many of these NICS checks were done on purchases of semi-automatic rifles, but in talking to my friends in the firearms business in Virginia, the items that are selling like hotcakes are the very items anti-gun legislators are likely to ban in the next few months; semi-automatic rifles, 20 and 30 rounds magazines, and suppressors.

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