Inventories running low as Americans stock up on ammunition
May 6, 2009 by Personal Liberty News Desk
In the face of an uncertain economy, and the government’s efforts to tighten gun control, gun and ammunition sales are rising.
CNN has recently reported gun shops across the country are running out of ammunition as people worry the Obama administration will increase taxes on bullets or introduce new gun-control measures.
"People are buying cases or whatever they can get their hands on and putting it away," says Richard Taylor, manager of The Firing Line, a gun shop and shooting range in the Denver area, quoted by the news organization.
He added " it’s gotten very, very difficult to find ammunition" in the last two months.
Meanwhile, according to a recent article in Time Magazine, the nation is also seeing a boom in gun sales. Quoting SportsOneSource, a research firm that tracks the sporting goods industry, it says firearms sales in large retail outlets have increased by 39 percent this year
This also comes at a time when fewer Americans support gun control laws.
A recent CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll found that while in 2001 some 54 percent favored stricter regulations, the number has fallen to 39 percent today.






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