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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCheap DVD players.....Reduced-price TVs......Glocks ........ Black Friday in Amurka
Every year on Black Friday, shoppers across the United States brave crowds to battle each other for door-buster sales on flat-screen TVs, video games, Uggs and the hottest toys.
But other bargain hunters are out stalking a different sort of discounted prey: firearms. And they should find plenty of deals. Gunmakers are marketing aggressively, trying to revive sales that have slowed a bit after a flurry a year ago.
Gun-buying after Thanksgiving is becoming something of a holiday tradition. In each of the past two years, the Federal Bureau of Investigation has reported a record number of calls for background checks for gun purchases on the Friday after Thanksgiving. A flood of 154,873 calls on Black Friday in 2012, nearly three times the daily average that year, caused outages at some of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System's call centers.
The FBI does not track actual firearms purchases, and customers can buy multiple guns at one time, suggesting the total number of weapons sold on Black Friday could be even higher than the number of background-check calls. The bureau has reported 17,238,102 background checks this year through Oct. 31. .....................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/29/black-friday-gun-sales_n_4351663.html?ncid=txtlnkushpmg00000037&ir=Politics
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Cheap DVD players.....Reduced-price TVs......Glocks ........ Black Friday in Amurka (Original Post)
marmar
Nov 2013
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99Forever
(14,524 posts)1. Nuttin' says happy holidays and peace on Earth...
... quite like mo gunz, mo gunz, mo gunz.
Yee haw!
RC
(25,592 posts)2. Nothing quite puts the Christ in Christmas like the purchase of gifts for machines, designed to kill
pipoman
(16,038 posts)3. It is or is about to be hunting season across the states..
many rural children will receive a new shot gun, .22, HMR.17, etc this and every Christmas. Most urban people can't comprehend this..they prefer to buy the latest death and carnage video game..
Sheri
(310 posts)4. more consumerist rubbernecking.
our culture is sick ... in more ways than one.