Sweaters, TVs and slippers have long been hot items on Black Friday. Now, it seems, so are guns.

Once again this year, Black Friday shoppers were also on the hunt for bargains on handguns and rifles.

That's according to data from the FBI that shows that Black Friday shoppers set a new record on the requests for background checks for gun sales with more than 200,000 applications, a new single day record, USA Today reported.

This year, the number of filings made to the FBI's National Instant Criminal Background Check System - that of 203,086 requests on Black Friday - topped last year's tally for a single-day high of 185,713. The two previous records - last year's and that of 185,345 in 2015 - were also recorded on Black Friday.

The actual number of guns is poised to be even higher: gun checks, which are federally mandated for gun purchases, are run on a single buyer and not the individual guns purchased. A single buyer could likely purchase multiple firearms in one transaction.

Friday's background checks record come in the wake of recent mass shootings in this country - including deadly massacres in Las Vegas and at a Texas church.

And even though gun sales were down during the first year of the Trump administration, gun sales tend to increase following mass shootings. In recent years, mass shootings have prompted state and federal lawmakers to propose gun regulations, leading to increased gun sales.

In the aftermath of recent mass shootings, lawmakers across states and in Washington have introduce new legislation that would limit the sale of certain firearms or accessories.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions last week ordered a review of the FBI's background check system after a gunman led a carnage in a small southern Texas church, killing 26 people with multiple firearms purchased in spite of previous convictions. Devin Kelley was able to purchase multiple firearms despite being convicted in a court martial for domestic violence, after the US Air Force failed to enter a previous domestic violence charge into the national database.

After the Las Vegas massacre, retailers across the country began to pull bump stocks from their shelves, and as lawmakers began to consider banning them, gun dealers in central Pennsylvania reported a surge in demand for the controversial devices.

The Las Vegas gunman, Stephen Paddock, in October used bump stocks -- which allow a semi-automatic rifle to function like a fully automatic weapon -- to kill 58 people.