Some say re-election fear is driving gun sales in Fort Worth, elsewhere

[QuietDan]

Some say re-election fear is driving gun sales in Fort Worth, elsewhere

FORT WORTH -- Gun sales are booming.

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.

That rush created a nationwide shortage.

"We're at the top of the roller coaster and we're about to plummet down the side," 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. "It's fixing to happen again. I don't know if it will be to the same extent it was before, but I see it coming.

"Look who the Republicans are trying to put against Obama," he said. "It's the Keystone Kops and people are getting scared. People are terrified he's going to get re-elected and then he won't care about getting votes next time. He'll just pass whatever legislation he wants."

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's Doomsday Preppers show, which chronicles people preparing for the end of the world.

Nationwide, more people than ever are buying firearms.

Last year, the FBI received more than 16.3 million inquiries from people running criminal background checks on potential gun buyers. That's up from 12.7 million in 2008 and 11.4 million in 2007, FBI records show.

Texas had around 1 million such requests in each of the past four years, the second most, behind Kentucky, which had nearly double that. Officials say Kentucky's numbers are high because fresh background checks are run every month there on gun owners with concealed-weapons permits.

"I'm constantly getting questions from people in the gun community about this [issue]," said Alan Korwin, author of nine gun law books, including Gun Laws of America, and operator of gunlaws.com. "People are concerned that if Obama wins, as a lame duck, he will go after firearms in a way we have never seen before.

"We saw a fire sale when he was elected last time," he said. "But the speculation is that now ... with his need to get re-elected gone, the sky is the limit on attacking the Second Amendment."

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Edited March 5, 2012 by QuietDan

[Garufa]

i can't what to see what CTD's prices look like in about 8 months.

[Oh Shoot]

Hype or not, must admit it prompted me to buy an AR that I probably wouldn't have otherwise, not yet anyway.

"It" meaning not so much the fear of 2A restrictions but of buying craze affecting prices and availability. So I guess I'm just part of the problem, sorry.

- OS

Edited March 5, 2012 by OhShoot

[Oh Shoot]

dang, meant to edit previous post

Edited March 5, 2012 by OhShoot

[dlm37015]

anybody want to help at the tulsa gunshow its going to be a circus