Gun Owners Fear Obama Administration
From NewsMax ~ President-elect Barack Obama has a bad reputation regarding the Second Amendment right to bear arms, and it’s having a dramatic effect in gun and ammo retail outlets.
Gun sales across the country were up before Election 2008 – just in anticipation of a Barack Obama victory in the White House race. Now that the President-elect is poised to take the oath of office, guns are flying off the shelves.
“Sales of firearms, in particular handguns and semi-automatic hunting and target rifles, are fast outpacing inventory,” National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) president and CEO Stephen Sanetti disclosed in a statement to the media. “It’s clear that many people are concerned about possible gun bans under the incoming Congress and are reacting accordingly.”
For example, firearms sales in California jumped by a third from a year earlier -- from 99,396 to 132,599, according to the state Attorney General’s Office.
The Franklin Gun Shop outside Nashville, Tenn. sold more than 70 guns on Election Day, racking up the best sales day since the business opened. Also on Election Day, a Cheyenne, Wyoming, gun store set a one-day sales record – only to break that record the next day, according to a report by OneNewsNow.com.
Prior to Election Day, The New York Times reported a Pittsburgh-area merchant taking up to 30 calls daily for inquiries about buying assault rifles, a single-day record in Colorado for required background checks of gun buyers, and sales spiking as much as seven times in Houston gun stores.
So, has Barack Obama over the years said something or intimated anything by his record to cause this apparent panic?
Yes, in spades, maintains the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Read the entire story at www.newsmax.com.
Gun sales across the country were up before Election 2008 – just in anticipation of a Barack Obama victory in the White House race. Now that the President-elect is poised to take the oath of office, guns are flying off the shelves.
“Sales of firearms, in particular handguns and semi-automatic hunting and target rifles, are fast outpacing inventory,” National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF) president and CEO Stephen Sanetti disclosed in a statement to the media. “It’s clear that many people are concerned about possible gun bans under the incoming Congress and are reacting accordingly.”
For example, firearms sales in California jumped by a third from a year earlier -- from 99,396 to 132,599, according to the state Attorney General’s Office.
The Franklin Gun Shop outside Nashville, Tenn. sold more than 70 guns on Election Day, racking up the best sales day since the business opened. Also on Election Day, a Cheyenne, Wyoming, gun store set a one-day sales record – only to break that record the next day, according to a report by OneNewsNow.com.
Prior to Election Day, The New York Times reported a Pittsburgh-area merchant taking up to 30 calls daily for inquiries about buying assault rifles, a single-day record in Colorado for required background checks of gun buyers, and sales spiking as much as seven times in Houston gun stores.
So, has Barack Obama over the years said something or intimated anything by his record to cause this apparent panic?
Yes, in spades, maintains the National Rifle Association (NRA).
Read the entire story at www.newsmax.com.
Labels: 2nd Amendment, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Friends of NRA, Gun Sales, NSSF, Obama Administration
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