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November 29, 2014 11:00 am - NewsBehavingBadly.com

[su_right_ad]So many guns are being sold that there is a backlog of background checks.

The staggering number of checks — an average of almost three per second, nearly three times the daily average — falls on the shoulders of 600 FBI and contract call center employees who will endure 17-hour workdays in an attempt to complete the background reviews in three business days, as required by law, FBI spokesman Stephen Fischer said.

“Traditionally, Black Friday is one of our busiest days for transaction volume,” Fischer said.

[su_thin_right_skyscraper_ad]On average, more than 500 gun background checks a day fail because of incomplete information required for a decision, according to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, which is responsible for checks on firearm purchases from federally licensed shops.

Officials estimate that about 3,000, or 2%, of the more than 144,000 Black Friday background checks will not be completed because of insufficient information from records such as court documents.

Employees of the background check agency, who work every day but Christmas, will work through the weekend to vet Friday’s purchases…

Ten factors can disqualify a purchase: felony conviction, arrest warrant, documented drug problem, mental illness, undocumented immigration status, dishonorable military discharge, renunciation of U.S. citizenship, restraining order, history of domestic violence or indictment for any crime punishable by longer than one year of prison.

D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

31 responses to Gun Sales Spike On Black Friday, Delaying Background Checks

  1. Anomaly 100 November 29th, 2014 at 11:06 am

    Buy ’em all before Obummer grabs ’em!

    • mea_mark November 29th, 2014 at 11:18 am

      They’ll just make more, it’s futile.

      • StoneyCurtisll November 29th, 2014 at 12:12 pm

        Aint the “free markets” wonderful…:)

      • FrankenPC . November 29th, 2014 at 12:14 pm

        You know, guns aren’t enough of an insult to life. I’ve been thinking about a new model made entirely of plastic, lead, dangerous chemicals, and covered in oil!

        Oh. That’s already a thing. How in the hell do you snark on the un-snarkable?

  2. StoneyCurtisll November 29th, 2014 at 11:09 am

    It’s almost Christmas..
    Time to celebrate the virgin birth of the Baby Jesus…
    And what better way to celebrate the birth of the baby Jesus than with a “brand new 50 caliber rifle…

  3. StoneyCurtisll November 29th, 2014 at 11:12 am

    Granny Get Your Guns…
    http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/91190/Granny-Get-Your-Gun-Original-Trailer-.html

  4. Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 29th, 2014 at 11:15 am

    Ahhhhhhh Christmas !!!!

    • Carla Akins November 29th, 2014 at 11:51 am

      You’re gonna put an eye out!

      • StoneyCurtisll November 29th, 2014 at 12:04 pm

        And maybe a bunch of other kids eye’s…
        Notice the 30 round .223 magazine..

        • mea_mark November 29th, 2014 at 12:08 pm

          And then it will be 30 years behind bars … Ahhh remembering the Christmas that should never have been.

          • StoneyCurtisll November 29th, 2014 at 12:10 pm

            High Five~!

        • Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 29th, 2014 at 9:18 pm

          Maybe I should have found one with a 100 round drum ???

          • Carla Akins November 29th, 2014 at 9:29 pm

            Can you get that on a bb gun? As I recall, you could on a paint ball gun.

          • Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 29th, 2014 at 9:43 pm

            actually, you can..

      • rg9rts November 29th, 2014 at 1:33 pm

        Saw one on tv yesterday with the local moron shooting at bottles and his shotgun jambs…soooooo he takes it and tries to look down the barrel…you guessed it…it went off and blew his hat clean off his head.. nice hole in the visor…

    • StoneyCurtisll November 29th, 2014 at 12:03 pm

      That aint no Red Rider BB gun…:)

      • Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 29th, 2014 at 2:23 pm

        Funny you should say that. I was at Cabella’s in Pennsylvania a couple of weeks ago. And they had the original Daisy Red Rider BB Guns. Debated about buying one and wrapping it for myself for christmas. And just never open it, keep wrapping it up every year…

        • greenfloyd November 29th, 2014 at 5:58 pm

          You are obviously stuck in some idealized version of a past that never was. Santa is dead, Xmas is done! Here come the Guns on Drones ready to fire out-of-the-box.

          • Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 29th, 2014 at 9:14 pm

            WHHHHHHHAAAAATTTTTTTTTT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

            SANTA IS DEAD ???????????????????

            NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO !!!!!!!!!!!!

          • greenfloyd November 29th, 2014 at 9:31 pm

            Sorry, I though you knew…
            http://greenfloyd.org/greenfloyd/reader/media/114394/ja-news_OccupyAustin122112_10.jpg

            more here

          • Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 29th, 2014 at 9:39 pm

            Nooooooo !!!!! And I am not listening to anything you say about the Easter Bunny or the tooth fairy !!!!

    • StoneyCurtisll November 29th, 2014 at 12:09 pm

      Looks like that gun, (AR-15) is good enough to get that boy shot dead by the police..(no need to reach into his waistband)..
      Oh wait, he is white…(nothing to fear)

    • FrankenPC . November 29th, 2014 at 12:09 pm

      Wife: “Honey…did you remember to check the chamber before wrapping it?”
      Husband: “PFFT! SHADDUP WOMAN! You think I’m some kind of moran?”

    • StoneyCurtisll November 29th, 2014 at 12:16 pm

      Oh look..
      Adam Lanza gets his Christmas present…
      On to the local school for a little target practice..:(

      • Pistol-Packing AKA "Susie" November 29th, 2014 at 9:17 pm

        I could reply to this, but it would be in bad taste. I will keep it to myself.

  5. rg9rts November 29th, 2014 at 1:31 pm

    Oh goody…SOOOOO many possible new entrants to the NRA shooter of the month award.

  6. annaaurora November 29th, 2014 at 1:42 pm

    Straw Purchases anyone.

  7. Sy Colepath November 29th, 2014 at 4:23 pm

    Liberaland should have plenty of material in the upcoming year.

  8. greenfloyd November 29th, 2014 at 5:50 pm

    I wonder how many lives might be saved if the check had a 5, or 7, or even a 10 day wait? What’s the big hurry?

    Sad, and alarming, to notice there’s nothing in the 10 disqualifying factors about being proven competent with the weapon…

  9. edmeyer_able November 29th, 2014 at 7:13 pm

    Background checks wtf we don’t need no stinkin’ bagroun chex……../s

  10. Larry Schmitt December 1st, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    “Gun sales spike.” Maybe that’s why they call it Black Friday.