Nov 22 2008
Gun Sales On the Rise as a Result of Obama Election
Since the Nov. 4 election, thousands of people have flooded gun dealers because of the belief that an Obama presidency – backed by Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress – will bring tighter gun control laws. After seeing that Obama supports making permanent the 1994 assault weapon ban, gun lovers are determined to beat him to the punch.
The result has been Christmas come early for dealers. Jim’s Gun Jobbery in Fayetteville sold more guns on a recent Saturday than on last year’s Christmas Eve, typically one of the busiest days of the year.
This doens’t surprise me. Barack Obama’s record on guns is abysmal. He has supported just about every gun control or confiscatory law that he has voted for in his political career. The assault weapons ban was a joke to begin with. The classification of what makes a gun an assault weapon has mostly to do with the grip, not the amount or speed of rounds that are fired from it. Furthermore, only about 3% of gun crimes were committed with so called assault weapons prior to the 1994 ban which expired a few years back.
