{"id":2807,"date":"2012-11-27T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/2012\/11\/27\/243292\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T18:20:07","slug":"243292","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=2807","title":{"rendered":"243,292"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:14790,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.nssfblog.com\\\/black-friday-gun-sales-set-record\\\/#1&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>\nThat is the number of point-of-sale NICS checks that were performed on Friday and Saturday combined. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nssfblog.com\/black-friday-gun-sales-set-record\/#1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The NSSF is reporting that the number of NICS checks<\/a> on the&nbsp;day after Thanksgiving, &#8220;Black Friday&#8221;, set the all-time one-day record of 154,873. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"separator\" style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\n<a href=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/NICS_ChecksTop10-1024x791.jpg\" imageanchor=\"1\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"494\" src=\"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/11\/NICS_ChecksTop10-1024x791.jpg\" tea=\"true\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>\nThe Saturday after Thanksgiving also made the list of top ten highest days coming in at number six. <\/p>\n<p>With regard to the numbers, NSSF points out:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p>\n<em>That total was nearly 20 percent more than the previous high of 129,166 set on Black Friday last year.&nbsp;Since a federal background check is mandatory for every firearm sold at retail, background check activity serves as an indicator of retail gun sales. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They attribute the high sales to Obama&#8217;s reelection, an increase in hunting license sales, and the fact that more and more Americans are taking responsibility for the safety of their families as well as themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Since these numbers are strictly from point-of-sales, it will be interesting to see how the gun prohibitionists try to spin this. <\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That is the number of point-of-sale NICS checks that were performed on Friday and Saturday combined. The NSSF is&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1334,919,232],"class_list":["post-2807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-black-friday","tag-nics-checks","tag-nssf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2807"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8566,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2807\/revisions\/8566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}