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"When asked if they're able to keep them in stock he replied, 'Not right now. In fact, the only ones we have up there are consignment pieces and they're asking outrageous prices for them.'"

So it was an investment thing for some--the next investment scheme? The following link and quote are the most relevant, but I tossed a few others in for your consideration.

Intelligent Investing Panel
Going Great Guns
Forbes
David Serchuk, 04.23.09
"Thomas:...But, you know, you could always find another job that would pay all right, and pay slightly above minimum wage, could allow you to at least live and have a home in most communities. And I think that's slowly changed."
[...]
"Forbes: I was in Colorado, and I knew people who had 200, 300 guns. And they'd stash them in various hidden places around their compound. This wasn't all that uncommon out west."
[...]
"Sonders:...we have gone from a couple decades ago being a manufacturing economy to more of a service-oriented, information economy. That has just displaced permanently a lot of workers,..."

Arming Goldman With Pistols Against Public: Alice Schroeder
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601110&sid=ahD2WoDAL9h0
[Title and link only, as no content from Bloomberg is allowed to be posted at FR.]

Aurora Shooter’s Father Supposed to Testify in LIBOR ?
http://www.tfmetalsreport.com/forum/4052/aurora-shooters-father-supposed-testify-libor (TF Metals Report)

BREAKING NEWS: CT School Shooter Killer Link To LIBOR SCANDAL
http://newsworldwide.wordpress.com/2012/12/16/breaking-news-ct-school-shooter-killer-link-to-libor-scandal/

Libor scandal grows as the fathers of two mass murderers were to testify
http://www.examiner.com/article/libor-scandal-grows-as-the-fathers-of-two-mass-murderers-were-to-testify

Gunman’s computers may be key in Connecticut school shooting investigation
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2969326/posts

Rupert Murdoch, Fox News Owner, Calls for Automatic Weapons Ban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2969123/posts

Murdoch calls for automatic weapons ban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2968913/posts

Rupert Murdoch Tells Romney To ‘Stop Fearing [The] Far Right’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2929478/posts

Murdoch Apologizes for ‘Jewish-Owned Media’ Tweet
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2961268/posts?page=1

"Gun-Control Group Changes Name, Keeps Agenda"
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=%5C%5CNation%5C%5Carchive%5C%5C200106%5C%5CNAT20010615a.html
(and Bill is a contributor)

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/july-dec97/guns_11-4.html
(more money for gun control from Gates and his father)

"Is Bill Gates a closet liberal?"
http://archive.salon.com/21st/feature/1998/01/cov_29feature.html
(Bill Gates for gun control, pro-abortion, etc.)

http://vikingphoenix.com/news/madminute/1997/mm970040.htm
(Gates on gun control)