Although background checks on Black Friday were record-setting, SK Arms in Midland, TX, says sales the day after President Obama’s terrorism/gun control speech were even bigger.
On December 10, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said it is “tragic” that Americans are pouring into gun stores to buy weapons because America is already “awash in guns.”
The Simpsonville Gun & Pawn store in Simpsonville, South Carolina, is advertising gun sales on its marquee by telling passersby that one surefire way to “piss off Obama” is to “buy a gun.”
On December 8 Fox News reported that more than 100 million guns have been sold since the election of President Obama.
The security guard on duty Wednesday at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino was unarmed when two terrorists opened fire in a conference room, killing 14 people and injuring 21 others.
On December 3–the day after Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik opened fire in San Bernardino, California–gun sales and concealed carry permit applications surged around the country.
On November 25, President Obama signed the NRA-backed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) containing provisions to protect lead ammo, expand military-to-civilian gun sales, and give local commanders the ability to allow base personnel to be armed.
While President Obama, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), Hillary Clinton, and others have been pledging gun control in 2015, investors who own stock in Sturm Ruger, Smith & Wesson Corp., and other firearm manufacturers have seen returns at approximately 70 percent.
2013 was a banner year for gun sales, with a record 21,093,273 background checks for gun purchases completed. And with all those new guns in circulation, the FBI reports that murders and robberies have decreased.
On September 24, Pope Francis scolded Congress for guns and weapons which are manufactured in America and sold around the world.
In an August 10 column, which was equal portions cathartic and panic stricken, The Economist basically admitted that the media’s relentless focus on gun crime results in more gun sales in America.
Gun sales in the Chattanooga area are surging in the wake of the July 16 attack that killed four Marines and one Sailor.
On July 7, the FBI announced that June 2015 was the “busiest June” for gun purchase background checks ever.
Some investors have argued Wal-Mart shouldn’t be in the business of selling high-capacity magazine rifles. Now, one of the nation’s largest gun retailers will soon find out if it may continue to sell sporting rifles.
Beginning with the unrest after the August 2014 shooting of Micheal Brown and that which followed the grand jury verdict in favor of Officer Darren Wilson, as well as the fervor maintained by national hucksters intent on keeping racial tensions aflame, gun sales in Missouri are through the roof.
