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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 917506" data-attributes="member: 12952">On Black Friday alone Gun dealers flooded the <a href="http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Organizations/Government+Bodies/Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation" target="_blank">FBI</a>&nbsp; with background check requests for prospective hand gun and long&nbsp; gun buyers, smashing the previous record by more than 30%. Deputy&nbsp; Assistant FBI Director Jerry Pender said the checks, required by federal&nbsp; law, surged to nearly 130,000 during the day, far surpassing the&nbsp; previous high of 97,848 on Black Friday of 2008.Gun buyers are more diverse than ever. This however is not the kind of&nbsp; diversity the anti-gun left is happy about. Young professionals, people&nbsp; starting families and women, in greater numbers than ever, are&nbsp; purchasing guns.As the ‘12 Presidential Campaign looms, President Obama himself has been&nbsp; remarkedly silent on the issue of gun rights. He must know that waging&nbsp; an open war against the NRA and America’s 80,000,000 gun owners during&nbsp; this campaign season will only hurt his prospects for re-election. He’s&nbsp; also well aware of the two recent Supreme Court decisions District of Columbia v. Heller and McDonald v. Chicago, decisions that make it clear that the right to bear arms is a constitutional right.The 130,000 Americans who sought to buy handguns on Black Friday&nbsp; aren’t naive. Anecdotal evidence points directly to the Obama&nbsp; administration as a primary motivating factor in the skyrocketing&nbsp; numbers of gun sales.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 917506, member: 12952"] On Black Friday alone Gun dealers flooded the [URL='http://content.usatoday.com/topics/topic/Organizations/Government+Bodies/Federal+Bureau+of+Investigation']FBI[/URL] with background check requests for prospective hand gun and long gun buyers, smashing the previous record by more than 30%. Deputy Assistant FBI Director Jerry Pender said the checks, required by federal law, surged to nearly 130,000 during the day, far surpassing the previous high of 97,848 on Black Friday of 2008. Gun buyers are more diverse than ever. This however is not the kind of diversity the anti-gun left is happy about. Young professionals, people starting families and women, in greater numbers than ever, are purchasing guns. As the ‘12 Presidential Campaign looms, President Obama himself has been remarkedly silent on the issue of gun rights. He must know that waging an open war against the NRA and America’s 80,000,000 gun owners during this campaign season will only hurt his prospects for re-election. He’s also well aware of the two recent Supreme Court decisions [I]District of Columbia v. Heller [/I]and[I] McDonald v. Chicago, [/I]decisions that make it clear that the right to bear arms is a [I]constitutional right[/I]. The 130,000 Americans who sought to buy handguns on Black Friday aren’t naive. Anecdotal evidence points directly to the Obama administration as a primary motivating factor in the skyrocketing numbers of gun sales. [/QUOTE]

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