Americans stick to their guns as firearms sales surge

At the Guns and Ammo Warehouse they are reluctant to admit Barack Obama is right about very much. But customers enjoy the thought that his controversial campaign comment, that "bitter" small-town Americans are clinging to their guns, has proved more true than the president could have imagined. Firearms sales have surged in the six months since Obama's election as millions of Americans have gone on a buying spree that has stripped gun shops in some parts of the country almost bare of assault weapons and led to a national ammunition shortage. The FBI says that since November more than seven million people applied for criminal background checks in order to buy weapons, a figure excluding the many more buying at thousands of gun shows in states such as Virginia, without facing any checks. Gun-shop owners and the National Rifle Association say the surge is driven by worries that Obama is planning to ban many types of firearms and that the deepening economic crisis will fuel a crime wave, as witnessed by the string of mass shootings in the past few weeks.

Not a bad take from a relentlessly left-wing periodical. It shows just how afraid the American MSM are of seriously considering this issue that we'd have to read this sort of thing in the UK Guardian.

For the U.S. media there's only one mantra: the upsurge in sales of firearms and ammunition is motivated by fear, paranoia, hysteria; gun owners are stupid, being manipulated by the Svengalian NRA, too violent and ignorant even to be considered seriously. It's a real shame - they're missing the story and the Guardian is not.

It isn't Obama himself, actually, it's the progressive ideologues he's brought with him into office, but there is a large element within the sitting government of the United States that is committed to gun control in any form, and no amount of carefully-worded denials are going to mask that truth. "I won't come after your firearms" does not mean "I won't make them impossible to obtain," which is exactly what the gun control activists do intend. If not that, then ammunition. That's the reason sales are up.

To be more blunt, there is a large portion of the American population who, having been lied to consistently and repeatedly about the matter in the past, now think they're being lied to again, and are behaving accordingly. That's the story here. It would be nice to read it in any of the U.S. media.

"A year ago, the Guns and Ammo Warehouse was selling, each month for $1,000 each, about 10 of their AR-15s, a semi-automatic civilian version of the army's M-16 assault rifle."

What, a reporter actually understands that these "assault rifles" people are buying aren't actually assault rifles but semi auto copies of the real assault rifles? Say it ain't so!

Ah, the lying media. They know no boundaries. I got a chuckle when they were showing captured arms/munitions from the Mexican drug lords. Full auto, M203 grenade launchers, with the HE rounds...

All bought at gun shows... hahahaha.. told my wife I wish’d I could get an M203 and HE rounds at a gun show. A few machine guns wouldn’t hurt either.

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