The FBI said it fielded 203,086 background check requests for gun purchases on the day after Thanksgiving – the highest daily total ever, reports USA Today.
The previous record of 185,713 background checks was set one year earlier on Black Friday.
The new record comes several weeks after a Texas church shooting left 26 dead and placed the national background check system in the spotlight. The Air Force reportedly failed to place information about the gunman’s prior court-martial conviction for assaulting his wife and his stepson into a database used to screen individuals attempting to obtain firearms.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week ordered a review of the federal background check system in response to the Texas shooting. Sessions in a memo ordered the FBI director and the acting director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to pinpoint agencies that are not correctly reporting information to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System.
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