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    Anna Kooiman reports from New Jew Jersey

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What some of the folks who have found jobs recently.

Have been hired in anticipation of that Christa sees it.

And Black Friday shoppers -- just looking for deals on the latest electronics turns out gun sales were also a red hot item.

The FBI says it could barely keep up with demand from firearms dealers who were seeking background checks on potential buyers.

And equipment is live -- a gun range and Randolph New Jersey with more Hannah.

You sang it well the FBI saying that this Black Friday they fielded about.

A hundred -- 55000.

Calls for background checks -- did break the Black Friday record from last year which was about a 129000.

Calls.

And they even said that some of their call centers were so inundated with calls that they experienced brief blackout periods.

And had to stop taking calls its of course hurt the bottom line -- some gunshot voters including the one here at RT SB here re adopting Jersey saying.

He had to start turning away customers at 1 o'clock in the afternoon on the busiest shopping day.

Of the -- now the reason for the surge in gun sales some gun shop owners are attributing -- to politics and mother nature fears that lawmakers might -- enact tougher gun control laws.

Since the election you've had the perfect storm.

You've had hurricane sandy.

You've had the reelection of Barack Obama and -- people realizing that not only is it their Second Amendment right.

But they may be in a situation where they need -- -- to protect themselves.

And they're coming to that realization and it's just cause an uptick in a spike -- last Friday you know on on Black Friday it was through the roof.

Well according to Gallup.

43% of women surveyed last year reported voting -- -- which is a new high the NRA reports that over the last four or five years there's been an exponential increase in women participating in safety classes.

Licensing programs -- -- only hunting programs more than women feel safer just knowing how to use guns.

I felt like Adrian have guns in the home that I should know how to handle it militants loading -- -- how.

In any guns in the house I can't have something -- afraid of -- don't know what it.

And it's dangerous.

I took a class and I found that I really enjoyed it.

It's even -- -- -- of her own guns now.

And that they -- -- tell ET that some gun manufacturers are really starting to market more toward women you see -- your protection on this email behind me you -- these these rifles here at camp opening -- -- hot -- -- if even they get a breast cancer awareness and got sent back to you while.

All right thanks and a -- we are hearing.

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