City - Tuesday, November 18, 2008 17:56 - 4 Comments

Running Low on Guns?

While many are still celebrating the election of Barack Obama as president, some are preparing for battle. Or so it seems, as the sales of firearms skyrocketed in the weeks after the election. The Daily News reported that the F.B.I did background checks on 374,510 prospective gun owners - 100,000 more than last year. People are worried about the President-Elect and his stance on gun control. Fearing he will take away their constitutional right to bear arms, people are out buying guns. The report explained that gun retailers in the city have not seen an increase in sales, but many New Yorkers get their guns out of state, in Pennsylvania and Florida.

With one of the toughest gun control laws in the country, New York gun advocates fear the Obama will create even stricter laws. And the fear is evident throughout the country where ammunition is running low in gun shops in Alaska and Georgia, as retailers are have special “Obama Sales”. It’s definitely easy to see that people “aren’t just clinging to their guns, as Obama said during the campaign, they’re stockpiling them.”

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