Obama’s Re-Election Surges Gun Sales!

Last Tuesday marked the re-election of America’s 44th president Barack Obama, with news of a democratic president scheduled for another 4 years gun sales have surged. People that have been driven by fears of tighter regulations under a Democratic president, especially for firearms that might be classified as assault weapons.

Sales are up, said John Kielbasa, owner of Fernwood Firearms in Hankins, N.Y. “I had a guy waiting here first thing in the morning [after the election.] He came in, bought two AK-47s.”

Reports CNN’s money, fears that a ban on assault weapons that was implemented by Bill Clinton back in the late 90’s comes back to some people’s mind. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has conducted 97,848 firearms background checks on Nov. 28, 2008, according to the National Shooting Sports Foundation. That’s the third-highest number of background checks ever recorded in a single day. The FBI conducted 12.7 million background checks during all of 2008, compared to 11.2 million the year before. They’ve been climbing ever since.

The same thing happened 4 years ago when Obama was first elected in 2008, the Democratic leadership drove gun enthusiasts to buy firearms in droves.

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