Gun sales soar amid fears of Barack Obama weapons ban (Guns aren't the only thing we're stockpiling)
Telegraph. ^ | 11 Jul 2009 | Toby Harnden in Memphis
Posted on Saturday, July 11, 2009 2:33:49 PM by appleseed
President Barack Obama may never have fired a gun but he is turning out to be one of the best firearms salesmen in American history.
I've sold probably four times as much in the last six months as I have in 20 years combined," said Cliff Hunter, owner of Tommy Bronson Sporting Goods in Memphis. "Hand guns and the tactical weapons, they're absolutely off the charts."
Most of his gun sales used to be for hunting, or personal protection in a city riddled with crime. But just before the November election, anxiety that Mr Obama would win and enact a radical programme of curtailing gun rights began drove business right up.
"Obama's a liberal socialist and I think he's proven quickly how extreme he is," he said. "When they get through healthcare, guns are on the table. They're not talking about it but it's going to happen."
The FBI recorded a 49 per cent rise in gun background checks during election week compared to the same week a year earlier.
"Sales have been up 50, 60 per cent sinces Osama got elected," said Jay Hill, owner of the Classic Firearms gun store in Cordova, just outside Memphis, smiling as he deliberately mixed up the name of the US president with the leader of al-Qaeda.
"He speaks with a forked tongue. I don't trust him a bit."
Crime would always mean there was a demand for gun, especially in a state like Tennessee which is in the South and where permits to carry a concealed weapon are available.
This week, a travelling jewellery salesman who was ambushed by four men, at least two of them armed, pulled out his pistol and shot two of them. The other two would-be robbers fled as the wounded men lay moaning on the ground.
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I am doing what Obama said and spending $ to help the economy. Its just not on "green" garbage like he wants, but those that utilize brass and lead.
