Precipitated by the Air Force's farcical failure to report the church shooter in question, Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered a review of the National Instant Criminal Background Check System, the FBI database used to check prospective gun buyers, including examining whether other government agencies are failing to report information to the database. Sessions also wants a report of how many times the FBI and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives have investigated and prosecuted people for lying on their gun-purchase applications.
Less than a week after Sessions ordered the reviews, Black Friday happened. And the FBI received more than 203,000 requests for background checks on gun purchases on Black Friday, a record for one day, shattering the two previous record days of Black Friday 2016 and Black Friday 2015.
Make of that what you will. MIght be that a large number of concerned citizens want to obtain guns and training to protect themselves and their neighbors in light of the recent spate of shootings, or it might be that a really snotload of people who know they should be in that database but aren't are rushing to get guns before the database gets fixed. One shouldn't be concerning at all. The other should make you crap your pants.