The total on 25 November just barely broke the record set on last year’s Black Friday, when the FBI processed 185,345 checks. Gun industry sources predicted a similar sales slump after Trump’s surprise election victory. For more than a year before the election, gun sales were buoyed by several mass shootings and the threat of a Clinton presidency. Smith & Wesson gives $500,000 to fight Massachusetts assault rifle ban Read moreThere are reports that unconventional buyers have buoyed gun sales after Trump’s victory. But there may be a more prosaic reason for the surging background checks: gun stores were trying to move excess inventory they had stocked in anticipation of a Clinton win.

Source: The Guardian November 29, 2016 00:45 UTC