The press so far has only reported on sales on September and October. They claim those numbers are only an 8% increase. They have yet to mention the flurry of sales in November since the election. Several gun stores whose owners I know have said their sales of specific types of weapons and ammo have more then 10 folded this month. One dealer I know usually sells 25 firearms a month. At each of two guns hows gun shows this month they sold 50+ firearms each day. One owner of one of largest gun stores probably in the sountry is processing NICS day and night trying to satisfy the demand. An ammo dealer who sells primarily wholesale for government contracts has turned to private sales. As he puts it, “Those sales now dwarf my federal contracts.” A large retail chain store manager bought 250 AR-15s in various configurations in anticipation of Obama winning the election. He sold all 250 in one week flat. He usually wouldn’t sell 250 in a year. I have had several freinds who have never owned a gun buy in the past two weeks. That actually took me by surprise.
This is a heck of a lot more than “anecdotal”; I was talking to managers in the gun sections of two huge sports chains and both said they had never seen anything like the level of firearms sales. One sold 68 AR-type rifles in one day...the manager at Sportsman’s Warehouse told me he was having a hard time refilling orders on handguns they were going so fast. He told me this while I was filling out the paper work on my new Sig 1911.