More than 200,000 Americans sought to buy a gun the day after Thanksgiving this year, based on federal background check data.
The Black Friday rush on firearms dwarfed the equivalent figures for 2008, 2009, and 2010 and far exceeded even the relatively elevated level of gun sales recorded through the background check data, Bloomberg reported.
There were more than 203,000 separate pings of the background check database on the retail industry’s most important day of the y...