After the shooting last week, Gun sales are up.
Colorado gun stores are seeing a big jump in demand for firearms since last Friday’s massacre at a midnight movie showing in Aurora.
Background checks for people wanting to buy guns in Colorado reportedly increased more than 41 percent after last week’s Aurora movie massacre. The Denver Post reports that firearm instructors have also seen increased interest in training needed for a concealed-carry permit.
“It’s been insane,” Jake Meyers, an employee at Rocky Mountain Guns and Ammo in Parker told the newspaper Monday.
Between Friday and Sunday, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation approved background checks for 2,887 people who wanted to purchase a firearm — a 43 percent increase over the previous Friday through Sunday and a 39 percent jump over those same days on the first weekend of July.
I used to be anti-gun because I thought they were dangerous and caused crime. Then I did some research and found that with just four basic rules and some common sense guns were REALLY safe, and not only were violent criminals going to do violence whatever tools they can get, and even if things are banned, they’ll simply smuggle guns in with the cocaine which is also illegal, but plentiful.
And I also learned that guns are used VERY frequently used to SAVE lives, and even in most of those cases the criminal flees rather than dies.
I changed my mind 180 Degrees and realized guns were better to have around than not, and I started buying guns and carrying guns.
Seems a lot more people are getting the same idea.
As soon as I heard that the shooter bought ammunition online, I knew that there would be cries to restrict online ammo sales. I quickly bought 1000 rounds of 9mm, just in case prices suddenly went up.
probably not. Those people flocking to the stores buy ammo. These are exactly the same people who will light up their politicritter’s phone lines when they start talking crap against gun rights.
Oh shush, I needed an excuse. 🙂
You NEVER need an excuse for more ammo! REMEMBER that! 🙂
Why? Because AMMO!
Your reason for switching to the gun rights side sounds like what happened with me. Well, what really made me start thinking about the subject was a student’s essay that pointed out that if we can ignore or talk away one right in the Bill of Rights, there’s nothing to keep us from doing that with all the others.
We’ve been having these discussions over at a “moderate independent’s (shh… don’t tell her she’s liberal) blog. She’s suddenly discovered the Goddard Kool Aid. And all the arguments are new to her. She’s a gun owner but…….. a few reasonable laws are needed. Who needs …. People shouldn’t be allowed to get whatever they want. etc.
The gunnies are myself and another, even more libertarian and radical. Well, at least on that blog.
Lets just say….its been fun. Its the OPPOSITE of Reasoned Discourse(TM) over there. There are two threads up. One with 133 comments and one with 60. Heck, we get into AGW arguments, etc.
And another commenter asked…who needs 6000 rounds of ammo? When I mentioned that 6000 rounds is a weekend’s shoot for some bloggers…. silence. Especially when I mentioned that I don’t shoot that much and I’d go through 300 rounds of .223 just ..because I brought it.
I was watching a listing on LuckyGunner yesterday, and in less than an hour saw 4,000 rounds of 5.56 get sold.
Grabbed 1,000 for myself and some .22 LR as well.
Now, to find time to get to the range…