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NEWS!
Consumers Still Buying Ammunition at Frenzied Pace
What’s faster than a speeding bullet? The people rushing to in to buy them.
According to The Washington Post, gun owners have bought about 12 billion rounds of ammunition so far this year, up from the average seven to 10 billion per year.
Since President Obama took office, people have been clinging to their guns even harder and paying higher prices to stockpile ammunition creating an industry shortage.
While anti-gun activists are concerned with the increase in gun and ammunition sales this year citing an expected rise in “anti-government militias,” pro-gun groups say people should not be worried about the individuals legally buying guns.
“I think it's Katrina. I think it's terrorism. I think it's crime. And I also think that it's people worrying about [whether] they'll be attacked by politicians," Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said. "They're suspicious, and justifiably so."
So far, the Obama administration has sided with gun owners by supporting less restrictive laws on carrying guns into state parks, and not pushing to reinstate the Clinton administration’s assault weapons ban that expired in 2004.
A spokesperson for the White House also said, “the president respects and supports the Second Amendment and the tradition of gun ownership in this country."
On a lighter note, the increase in gun and ammunition sales will boost tax dollars raised by the government to support wildlife conservation.
Consumers Still Buying Ammunition at Frenzied Pace
What’s faster than a speeding bullet? The people rushing to in to buy them.
According to The Washington Post, gun owners have bought about 12 billion rounds of ammunition so far this year, up from the average seven to 10 billion per year.
Since President Obama took office, people have been clinging to their guns even harder and paying higher prices to stockpile ammunition creating an industry shortage.
While anti-gun activists are concerned with the increase in gun and ammunition sales this year citing an expected rise in “anti-government militias,” pro-gun groups say people should not be worried about the individuals legally buying guns.
“I think it's Katrina. I think it's terrorism. I think it's crime. And I also think that it's people worrying about [whether] they'll be attacked by politicians," Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, said. "They're suspicious, and justifiably so."
So far, the Obama administration has sided with gun owners by supporting less restrictive laws on carrying guns into state parks, and not pushing to reinstate the Clinton administration’s assault weapons ban that expired in 2004.
A spokesperson for the White House also said, “the president respects and supports the Second Amendment and the tradition of gun ownership in this country."
On a lighter note, the increase in gun and ammunition sales will boost tax dollars raised by the government to support wildlife conservation.