LOS ANGELES (KTLA) — It’s happening across the country, including at EM and M Jewelry and Guns in Orange County.
Demands for stricter gun control laws and talk of reviving an expired ban on assault weapons has people swamping stores to buy weapons.
“The spike in business has doubled, tripled,” said Emily Atkinson, the Orange County store’s owner.
“People are not just afraid of some bad guy breaking in they’re scared they won’t have the right,” she said.
Atkinson said she sold $20,000 worth of guns and ammunition on Wednesday alone.
That’s happening as the massacre in Newtown, Conn. has spurred talk of reviving a ban on guns like the one used in the tragedy, a semi-automatic weapon that looks like a military machine gun.
Discussions of gun control follow the horrific massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on December 15.
10 Comments to “Gun Sales Skyrocket Amid Fear Over Stricter Control”
December 20, 2012 at 7:21 AM
Happens everytime they talk about gun control, you don't suppose they do it on purpose for the tax money?
December 20, 2012 at 7:45 AM
STFU Cracker!
December 20, 2012 at 7:42 AM
Throughout history, nobles elevated themselves over the serfs by virtue of being armed and ensuring that their serfs were not.
Gun control advocates want other people to be reduced to serfdom. These laws are only for the “little people,” and do not apply to them.
December 20, 2012 at 7:44 AM
ITS JUST MORE OF THE SAME NONSENSE AND STUPIDITY!
December 20, 2012 at 7:45 AM
gun control that is…
December 20, 2012 at 10:36 AM
All I have to say is fear & intimidation does not work with me. I have lost many friends recently over my views on Guns & I am prepared to lose even more. If we can not talk about Gun issues with each other as Americans you don't deserve to have a gun period.
December 20, 2012 at 1:36 PM
Lock & Load !!!
December 20, 2012 at 5:58 PM
Unintended liberal consequences.
December 21, 2012 at 2:33 PM
shut it phukface!
December 21, 2012 at 9:29 PM
I just donated to the NRA, NRA-ILA, GOC, GOA, and the SAF. Damn i feel good!