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| Americans bought record number |
| Americans bought record number of guns in December: FBI
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 31-December-2011
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American Christmas shoppers are purchasing record numbers of guns, according to the latest Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) figures on mandatory background checks required to buy firearms.
The FBI reported that the number of background checks has already topped the previous one-month record -- set only in November -- of 1,534,414 inquiries by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System also known as NICS.
Almost half a million checks were done in just the last six days before Christmas.
On December 23, two days before Christmas, NICS ran 102,222 background checks, which was the second-busiest day in history, the CNN reported.
The one-day record was set this year on Black Friday, the big shopping day following Thanksgiving, with 129,166 searches. By comparison, the previous one-day high was set November 28, 2008, when gun dealers made slightly less than 98,000 requests for background searches.
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