7 states where gun sales are surging after Sandy Hook

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 19:16:00 +0000

When word came of the dreadful school massacre in Sandy Hook, Conn., on December 15, many people stopped to pray and mourn. Others ran to the gun shop, and more are still coming, according to news reports from across the nation.

Apparently fearful from the moment the story broke that serious gun control -- particularly a ban on sales of the sort of assault rifle used by killer Adam Lanza, and the large-capacity magazines that allowed him to kill so many so quickly -- was in the offing, paranoids and gun enthusiasts rushed sporting goods shops in order to score those very items.

The right has long sold the line that President Barack Obama is coming for the guns of people who fancy themselves to be the "real" Americans, and it now appears that he might at least, after four years of inaction, seek to enact meaningful gun safety laws.

One major gun seller, the Dick's Sporting Goods chain, has suspended sales of types of several rifles, including the model used by Lanza at Sandy Hook Elementary School.

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7 states where gun sales are surging after Sandy Hook