cnn:
"Weapons dealers in much of the United States are reporting sharply higher sales since Barack Obama won the presidency a week ago.
Buyers and sellers attribute the surge to worries that Obama and a Democratic-controlled Congress will move to restrict firearm ownership, despite the insistence of campaign aides that the president-elect supports gun rights and considers the issue a low priority. Video Watch shoppers snap up guns of all types »
According to FBI figures for the week of November 3 to 9, the bureau received more than 374,000 requests for background checks on gun purchasers -- a nearly 49 percent increase over the same period in 2007. Conatser said his store, Virginia Arms Company, has run out of some models -- such as the AR-15 rifle, the civilian version of the military's M-16 -- and is running low on others.
Such assault weapons are among the firearms that gun dealers and customers say they fear Obama will hit with new restrictions, or even take off the market."
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imagine if mccain had won and we heard this same story only instead of racist southerners it was blacks living in major cities..
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This doesn't have anything to do with Obama specifically, the same thing happened with Clinton in the 90s when he proposed the assault weapons ban. Gun nuts bought as many guns (in that case assault weapons) as they could out of fear they wouldn't be able to again. In that case they were right to, although now its rather ridiculuos, as Obama hasn't proposed any restrictive gun laws.
well, i bought a gun when i found out about the obama presidency simply to blow the fuck out of all the parisians who were happy about it. plain and simple.
i agree...but i still feel if the stat was switched there would be a different general sentiment
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