by Joel McDurmon<\/p>\n
Star-Telegram.com<\/a> (Ft. Worth)\u00a0reports<\/a>\u00a0that fears of an Obama re-election are sustaining record high gun sales which began with the President\u2019s first days in office:<\/p>\n Enthusiasts are stocking up on guns and ammunition, and some in the industry are wondering whether sales are spiking as they did after Democrat Barack Obama won the presidency in 2008.<\/p>\n That rush created a nationwide shortage.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re at the top of the roller coaster and we\u2019re about to plummet down the side,\u201d said DeWayne Irwin, owner of the Cheaper Than Dirt gun store in north Fort Worth, which set a sales record for the month of February. \u201cIt\u2019s fixing to happen again. I don\u2019t know if it will be to the same extent it was before, but I see it coming.<\/p>\n \u201cLook who the Republicans are trying to put against Obama,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s the Keystone Kops and people are getting scared. People are terrified he\u2019s going to get re-elected and then he won\u2019t care about getting votes next time. He\u2019ll just pass whatever legislation he wants.\u201d<\/p>\n Some say the uptick in sales at gun stores could also be linked to anything from the arrival of tax refunds to a spending spree by fans of the National Geographic Channel\u2019s\u00a0Doomsday Preppers\u00a0show, which chronicles people preparing for the end of the world.<\/p>\n Nationwide, more people than ever are buying firearms.<\/p>\n Last year, the FBI received more than 16.3 million inquiries from people running criminal background checks on potential gun buyers. That\u2019s up from 12.7 million in 2008 and 11.4 million in 2007, FBI records show.<\/p>\n One website, Ammo.net<\/a>, has called Obama \u201cthe greatest gun salesman in America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Joel McDurmon Star-Telegram.com (Ft. Worth)\u00a0reports\u00a0that fears of an Obama re-election are sustaining record high gun sales which began with the President\u2019s first days in office: Enthusiasts are stocking up on guns and ammunition, and some in the industry are wondering whether sales are spiking as they did after Democrat Barack Obama won the presidency … Continue reading “Record gun sales on fears of Obama re-election”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[280,279,90,281],"class_list":["post-328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-gun-sales","tag-guns","tag-obama","tag-re-election"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":329,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}