Gun Sales Surge With New Fears of Gun Bans

When Obama was elected there was a surge in gun sales nationwide because of fears that he, along with strong majorities in the Congress, would work to further ban guns.  No new gun bans have come to pass, but the Arizona shooting and all the rhetoric coming after it from Democrat legislators has once again stimulated the gun industry:

After a Glock-wielding gunman killed six people at a Tucson shopping center on Jan. 8, Greg Wolff, the owner of two Arizona gun shops, told his manager to get ready for a stampede of new customers.

Wolff was right. Instead of hurting sales, the massacre had the $499 semi-automatic pistols -- popular with police, sport shooters and gangsters -- flying out the doors of his Glockmeister stores in Mesa and Phoenix.

“We’re at double our volume over what we usually do,” Wolff said two days after the shooting spree that also left 14 wounded, including Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who remains in critical condition.

A national debate over weaknesses in state and federal gun laws stirred by the shooting has stoked fears among gun buyers that stiffer restrictions may be coming from Congress, gun dealers say. The result is that a deadly demonstration of the weapon’s effectiveness has also fired up sales of handguns in Arizona and other states, according to federal law enforcement data.

“When something like this happens people get worried that the government is going to ban stuff,” Wolff said.

As mentioned earlier, even some Republicans on jumping on the gun banning hysteria. But this is to be expected from people whose fear of tools outweighs their fear of crazy people.