The Greatest Gun Salesman In America: President Barack Obama

Via: Ammo.net

Ammo.net explains:

The perceived hostility towards gun owners by President Obama has actually helped the firearms industry tremendously. Since the 2008 election, more Americans than ever before are purchasing firearms & ammunition. This has meant massive increases in sales by firearm & ammunition makers ….

Ammo.net informed us by email:

Starting in 2008 with the primary battle between then-Senators Clinton & Obama for the Democratic Party’s nomination, the firearm industry has experienced an unprecedented boom. Despite the lackluster economy, numbers such as the ones below when visually illustrated … show an industry which continues to experience record (and under-reported!) growth, thanks primarily to “the Obama effect”:

• Ruger’s firearm sales have gone from $117 million to $232 million, an increase of 98%
• Winchester’s sales of ammunition have gone from $431.7 million to $572 million, an increase of 33%
• Federal excise taxes collected on the sale of new firearms and ammunition has risen 48.3%
• January 2012 was the 20th straight month of increases in NICS background checks compared to the same month in the previous year

• Dec. 2011 saw over 1.41 million NICS background checks run, the most ever for a single month
• The few states which regularly report concealed carry permit numbers have seen increases in active permit holders ranging from 46% to 161%