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Black Friday sets records for most gun background checks processed on single day

Black Friday sets records for most gun background checks processed on single day, eclipsing record set after Sandy Hook BY Meg Wagner Black Friday shoppers sought to buy a record number of guns on the nation’s biggest retail holiday — about two every second — eclipsing a previous record set in the days after the Sandy Hook massacre. The FBI processed a terrifying 185,345 firearms background checks — the most ever on a single day — on Black Friday, the agency said Tuesday. While a background check does not mean a gun was purchased, the mandatory National Instant Criminal Background… View Article