Posted on 04/21/2016 4:50:53 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
KINSTON, N.C. (WNCT) – An unprecedented surge in gun sales is boosting the economy in the East and across the country.
The gun industry is booming and last year, the FBI conducted a record-breaking 23.1 million firearm background checks.
The National Shooting Sports Foundation says the gun industry added nearly 25,000 jobs last year for a nationwide total of nearly 288,000 jobs. Since 2008, gun industry jobs have increased 73-percent.
North Carolina is one of the top-7 states for this growth. That’s something Neuse Sport Shop in Kinston can attest to. Gun sales there have doubled just since last year.
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Patiently waiting for Kurt Schilling to give them permission to shoot!
Love to hear it.
Carry on, gunnies.
It’s been a long time since January 2009 inauguration day of the national socialist party and your gun safes aren’t full by now? Ladies and gentlemen, please.
Always wonder what takes people so long to react.
Then again, it could be that the ones buying still are the ones with 50 or so in their safes.
If the celebrities don’t check their celebrity privilege and the politicians’ knees buckle, they’re going to need them when their mothers, wives, daughters and granddaughters need to use the ladies room.
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