Black Friday Sets New Record for Gun Background Checks
Thursday, December 03, 2015
The FBI reported that it processed about to background checks per second on Black Friday. That’s a total of 185,345 background checks. That figure broke the previous record, set on December 21, 2012 roughly a week after the Sandy Hook Elementary mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut.
GoLocal teamed up with Graphiq for this look at gun rights vs. gun control support over time and gun laws by state.
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