Firearm Background Checks Near 170K on Black Friday

The FBI recorded almost 170,000 background checks related to firearm purchases on Black Friday this year, with more than 600,000 recorded in the week leading up to that Friday, the Washington Examiner reports. The industry trade group that tracks firearms sales numbers, the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), announced on Monday that the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System (NICS) conducted 169,906 background checks on firearms sales on Black Friday for a total of 613,380 checks in the last week of November. That figure represents a 9.8 percentage point...