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The FBI NICS office conducted 3,626,335 total background checks last month. November is always a busy month with elections, Black Friday, and holiday deals to be had.

Even the year-to-date streak of record numbers and reported inventory shortages around the country could not hamper the demand for background checks. 

Last month beat November 2019 by more than a million checks.

Checks were down on Black Friday compared to last year, but still high enough to be the fourth-busiest day in the history of NICS.

There were 186,645 checks on Black Friday last month, and that would not include any firearms ordered online that day, which would have to be shipped to a federally licensed dealer who would then complete the background check.

Black Friday may have been slower than last year, but the first two full weeks of November ranked, in order, as the fourth and eighth busiest weeks for the NICS office.