Posted on 06/09/2009 12:39:30 AM PDT by appleseed
The old woman walked into a Leesburg gun shop two months ago and explained her situation.
She was 80-something and wore the scars of the Great Depression. It had crippled her family, she told store owner Gordon Schorer, wiping out their savings in a bank failure. Now, near the end of her life, she worried the U.S. was headed down the same road, and she wasn't going to make that trip — not without a fight.
She had stockpiled more than a year's worth of food, put most of her money in precious metals and today was looking for a little insurance.
"She bought $8,000 of guns and ammo," Schorer said. "She's afraid of the future. Afraid she could lose everything."
As bad as the economy is, there are people who fear it is going to get worse — much, much worse.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Actually, $8K isn’t a lot for such purchases.
Roughly,
2 quality ARs: $3000
4+ cases .223: $2000
2 9mm Glocks: $1000
3+ cases 9mm: $1000
1 Mossberg + shells: $1000
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