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Guns Sales to Set Record

November 26th, 2013 by flanews

Friday is the busiest shopping day of the year and it is also the day more guns are typically sold in Florida than on any other day. 2013 is poised to set a record when it comes to firearm purchases.

Firearms will be literally jumping off the shelves across Florida this weekend.

More than 6 thousand guns are expected to be sold on Friday alone. By the end of the year, the state will have conducted a record eight hundred thousand plus background checks, that’s double the number of background checks conducted in 2007. “Our goal is to ensure that all law-abiding citizens are able to purchase guns legally while preventing those who are unauthorized from having them,” says Robin Sparkman, Firearm Purchase Program Supervisor.

Background checks are conducted twelve hours a day, every day everyday of the year but Christmas and New Years. It takes 62 people to keep up with all the calls coming in to the Department of Law Enforcement.

Only about 2 percent of the background checks requested by licensed firearm dealers like this one are refused.

With so many guns being sold, Robert Kornegay thinks guns, and gun safety are a good investment. He and his family opened this indoor shooting range three months ago. “Public safety is number one with the people today and people want to have a firearm but they want to be safe,” says Robert Kornegay, Shooting Range Owner.

The range charges twenty dollars an hour to shoot, before making the investment Robert did the math. “We saw the trend of gun sales going up, we thought that would be a good place for us to be,” says Kornegay

Just over 5 point 1 million guns were sold in Florida over the last decade.

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