185,000 background checks on black friday

[tyroneweaver]

Black Friday breaks record with 185K gun background checks

I bet the gun industry will be sorry to see obam leave office.

 

[waltky]

Kentucky leads the nation in background checks, 2x more than California...

FBI: Background checks for gun sales peak on Black Friday
December 2, 2015 | WASHINGTON (AP) — Black Friday broke an FBI record for the number of firearms background checks.

The agency said Tuesday that it processed 185,345 background checks — roughly two per second — on the same day that three people were killed and nine others wounded in an attack at a Planned Parenthood office in Colorado. The FBI received about 5 percent fewer background check requests on Black Friday in 2014, the agency said.

FBI background checks processed by the National Instant Criminal Background Check System are conducted for gun purchases from federally licensed deals and for permits to carry guns. A background check does not mean a gun was purchased, but manufacturers rely on the background check statistics as a measurement of the industry's health.

The FBI started processing background checks for potential gun owners in 1998 as part of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. The previous record for the most background checks in a single day was Dec. 21, 2012, about a week after 20 children and six adults were shot to death in a Connecticut elementary school. The week following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School saw the processing of 953,613 gun background checks.

After the Colorado shootings, President Barack Obama again called for stricter limits on the availability of guns. "Enough is enough," Obama said in a statement Saturday. He said the Planned Parenthood shootings showed the need to "to do something about the easy accessibility of weapons of war" for "people who have no business wielding them." Robert Lewis Dear, 57, is accused of killing a local police officer and two others in the shooting rampage. He is expected to be formally charged later this month. Law enforcement officials have not disclosed details about multiple weapons found after Dear's arrest.

FBI: Background checks for gun sales peak on Black Friday

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Kentucky leads nation in firearms background checks but not all equal sales
December 4, 2015-- Kentucky has performed nearly twice as many NICS Firearm background checks as the state that lands number two on the list.

According to FBI statistics, through October 2015, there have been more 2,613,656 Federal firearms background checks in Kentucky. California ranks second with 1,328,017. Indiana is 7th on the list at 732,549. Kentucky has an estimated population of 4.4 million people, so could Kentuckians have purchased that many guns? Attorney Aaron Silletto thinks there's a simple explanation. “So whether it's obtaining a conceal carry permit, being able to reissue a conceal carry permit or anything like that, all of that is funneled through the Federal system”, explained Silletto. Digging deeper into the FBI statistics, we learned 2.4 million of the Kentucky federal firearm background checks are in a category entitled "permit."

Silletto said the Kentucky State Police relies upon the Federal system when doing its checks on conceal and carry permit holders. A spokesperson for the department could not confirm nor deny whether they regularly re-file background checks on those permit holders. Silletto thinks they do, and that would account for Kentucky leading the nation by such a large margin. “So they're going to continue to do background checks on you periodically even when you're not buying firearms or even if you're not getting a new permit”, Silletto said. “I think, if anything, it means Kentucky is pretty vigilant about making sure the people with licenses to carry concealed weapons are qualified to do so.”

Barry Laws owns Openrange in Crestwood, Kentucky. His gun shop saw a record day on Black Friday, the same day the FBI reported was the biggest day in the history of the NICS firearms background check system. He was surprised by Kentucky’s large lead in background checks but can appreciate Aaron Silletto’s theory as to why the Commonwealth leads in that statistic. “That would be wonderful”, said Laws. “And that's what we're all after is for them to check up on what's going on in the system and make sure somebody hasn't become a prohibitive person that shouldn't have a firearm. That would make sense.” More than 400,000 of Indiana's 700,000 background checks were in that "permit" category.

Kentucky leads nation in firearms background checks but not all equal sales