Friday, November 14, 2008

Local gun sales mirror national trend

During my presentation today to the journalism faculty at Iowa State University a colleague suggested that I look at data related to gun sales in Alabama. I found this Sunday, November 09, 2008 article from the Press-Register in Alabama:

Local gun sales mirror national trend, by Jeff Dute, Outdoors Editor, al.com.
Possibility of new gun-control measures under Barack Obama's administration has many local hunters and shooters buying guns and stockpiling ammunition --

A couple of outdoors equipment retailers in Mobile and Baldwin counties say sales of assault guns and ammunition at their stores have increased dramatically in the last month with the ascension of Democrat Barack Obama to the presidency.
The main issue, it seems, is not concern about a Black uprising, but rather a concern about gun laws that the Obama Administration might try to enact in the coming months and years.

see related story:

Fears of Democrat crackdown lead to gun sales boom: "One Georgia gun shop advertised an 'Obama sale' on an outdoor sign, but the owner took it down after people complained that the shop appeared to be issuing a call to violence against the country's first black leader."

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