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Title: Frenzied buyers swarm to U.S. gun stores fearing a sudden weapons ban after Sandy Hook elementary school massacre
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Daily Mail
URL Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art ... earing-sudden-weapons-ban.html
Published: Dec 29, 2012
Author: Staff
Post Date: 2012-12-29 06:06:23 by noone222
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The prospect of a possible weapons ban has sent gun enthusiasts into a panic and sparked a frenzy of buying at stores and gun dealers nationwide Assault rifles are sold out across the country Rounds of .223 bullets, like those used in the AR-15 type Bushmaster rifle used in Newtown, are scarce Stores are struggling to restock their shelves By Associated Press Reporter PUBLISHED:23:21 EST, 28 December 2012| UPDATED: 05:34 EST, 29 December 2012 Comments (13) Share . . The phones at Red's Trading Post wouldn't stop ringing. Would-be customers from as far away as New York wanted to know if the Twin Falls, Idaho gun shop had firearms in stock. Others clamored to find out if their orders had been shipped. Overwhelmed, gun store manager Ryan Horsley had to do what no employee would ever think of doing just days before Christmas: He disconnected the phone lines for three whole days. ‘We had to shut everything off,’ says Horsley, whose family has owned Red's Trading Post, the state's oldest gun shop, since 1936. ‘We were swamped in the store and online.’ Eager to buy: Gun collector and target shooter Roy Shanks paid $2,400 for a Smith and Wesson-made variation of the AR-15 rifle that would have cost about $1,300 a month ago in case Washington passes a weapons ban The phones at gun shops across the country are ringing off the hook. Demand for firearms, ammunition and bulletproof gear has surged since the December 14 massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, that took the lives of 20 schoolchildren and six teachers and administrators. The shooting sparked calls for tighter gun control measures, especially for military-style assault weapons like the ones used in Newtown and in the Aurora, Colorado, movie theater shooting earlier this year. The prospect of a possible weapons ban has sent gun enthusiasts into a panic and sparked a frenzy of buying at stores and gun dealers nationwide. More... Teachers trained to use guns in classroom: American school tutors get free weapons lessons ‘to protect pupils' after Sandy Hook massacre LA police collect two ROCKET LAUNCHERS in buyback program prompted by Sandy Hook shooting Assault rifles are sold out across the country. Rounds of .223 bullets, like those used in the AR-15 type Bushmaster rifle used in Newtown, are scarce. Stores are struggling to restock their shelves. Gun and ammunition makers are telling retailers they will have to wait months to get more. Store owners who have been in the business for years say they have never seen demand like this before. When asked how much sales have increased in the past few weeks, Horsley just laughed. Gun frenzy: People crowd the RK Gun Show in the Smokies in Knoxville, Tennessee on Friday, December 28, 2012 ‘We haven't even had a chance to look at it,’ he says. Horsley spends his days calling manufacturers around the country trying to buy more items for the store. Mainly, they tell him he has to wait. Franklin Armory, a firearm maker in Morgan Hill, California, is telling dealers that it will take six months to fulfill their orders. The company plans to hire more workers and buy more machines to catch up, says Franklin Armory's President Jay Jacobson. The shortage is leaving many would-be gun owners empty handed. William Kotis went to a gun show in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, last weekend hoping to buy a rifle for target shooting. Almost everything was sold out. ‘Assault rifles were selling like crazy,’ says Kotis, who is president and CEO of Kotis Holdings, a real estate development company based in Greensboro. ‘People are stockpiling.’ He left without buying anything. Luke Orlando's parents were able to get him the 12-gauge shotgun he wanted for Christmas to bird hunt, but his uncle wasn't as lucky. ‘At Christmas dinner, my uncle expressed outrage that after waiting six months to use his Christmas bonus to purchase an AR-15, they are sold out and back ordered over a year,’ says Orlando, 18, a student at the University of Texas. No organization publicly releases gun sales data. The only way to measure demand is by the number of background checks that are conducted when someone wants to buy a firearm. Those numbers are released by the Federal Reserve Bureau every month. Data for December is not out yet. But the Federal Bureau of Investigation says that it did 16.8 million firearm background checks as of the end of November, up more than 2 per cent from a year ago. Eager shoppers: People line up to enter the RK Gun Show, many eager to buy in case a weapons ban goes into effect The Colorado Bureau of Investigation, which handles background checks for the state, can't keep up with the number of requests it is getting. The bureau has pulled staff from other units and increased its hours, says spokesperson Susan Medina. Many firearm dealers and manufacturers say that Obama's comments since the Newtown school shooting are driving demand. James Zimmerman of http://SelwayArmory.com, a website that sells guns, ammunition and knives, says that sales really took off on December 19 after President Barack Obama held a White House press conference announcing that Vice President Joe Biden would lead a team tasked with coming up with ‘concrete proposals’ to curb gun violence. That day, one customer ordered 32,000 rounds of ammunition from http://SelwayArmory.com, worth close to $18,000. The order had to be shipped from the company's Lolo, Montana, office to Kentucky on a freight truck. ‘I've done more sales in the week after the 19th than I have the whole year,’ says Zimmerman, who launched http://SelwayArmory.com in 2009. At Lady Liberty Gunsmithing LLC in Atlantic City, New Jersey, a customer called last week asking if a pistol he wanted was available. When he was told there was only one left, he drove more than two hours from Newark, New Jersey, to buy it that same day. ‘People want guns now even more than ever,’ says Guy Petinga II, whose father opened the store above his home in 1996. Others saw demand immediately after the shooting. Bullet Blocker, which makes bulletproof vests, briefcases and insert panels, saw sales of its children's backpacks suddenly jump. ‘That's how I found out about the tragedy. I saw the sales rise and then turned on CNN,’ says Elmar Uy, vice president of business operations at the Billerica, Massachusetts, company. Bullet Blocker has sold about 50 to 100 bulletproof backpacks a day since the shooting, up from about 10 to 15 in a regular week. The children's backpacks, which are designed to be used as shields, cost over $200 each. ‘I've never seen numbers like this before,’ says Uy. Guns for sale: A dealer displays firearms for sale at a gun show in Kansas City, Missouri on December 22, 2012 Hot item: A man carrying a rifle for sale looks at military fatigues at the gun show in Kansas City Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/...ns-ban.html#ixzz2GRCeFwcX Follow us: @MailOnline on Twitter | DailyMail on Facebook Poster Comment: Fuck Obama !
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#1. To: noone222 (#0)
Selway is a worthy vendor - thanks for linkage.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken I wonder where this Kotis guy went where they were selling machine guns. I believe he might be confused. Despite what that idiot Nancy Pelosi says semi-automatics are not "assault rifles/weapons."
#2. To: noone222 (#0)
‘Assault rifles were selling like crazy,’ says Kotis, who is president and CEO of Kotis Holdings, a real estate development company based in Greensboro.
"It is the habit of unhappiness to rewrite our lives and from a different beginning come to a different ending. We cling to the past and what it could have been; what we wanted, or thought we wanted, before we were taught by a broken heart that our own good intentions have little effect on the way things are."
D. W. Buffa, Breach of Trust
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