Firearms manufacturing, sales a solid growth industry

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The FBI performed an all-time single day record number of gun sales background checks on Black Friday, topping a total of 154,837 for the year since the re-election of President Obama.

Smith and Wesson, which recently began shipping its first striker-fired military and police polymer pistol chambered for 9 mm, announced a 48% increase in sales during the last quarter of 2012, topping an industry-wide figure of nearly 40% growth in firearms manufacturing stocks of all types, according to PR Newswire.(click here for the good news)