By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI processed a whopping 185,345 firearm background checks on Black Friday, marking the highest single-day number since the bureau began conducting background checks in 1998, the Associated Press reports.
The previous record was on Dec. 21, 2012, about a week after a deadly shooting rampage at a Connecticut elementary school.
The background checks for gun purchases rose about 5% over the past Black Friday.
The record-number background checks come after the Planned Parenthood shootings and the terrorist attacks in Paris.
