Gun sales shoot up again- over last year

[henktermaat]

Gun sales shoot up amid America’s fear of rising crime and terrorism - Times Online

Smith & Wesson is expecting sales to rise by 30 per cent to $102 million (£61 million) in the first quarter of the next financial year, after growing by more than 13 per cent this year to $335 million.

At Sturm and Ruger, sales for the third quarter hit $71.2 million, up 70 per cent from the same period last year. At Glock, the leader in law enforcement markets, pistol sales rose by 71 per cent in the first quarter of the financial year for 2010, in comparison with the same period last year.

12.4% increase over same time last year!

According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, the FBI carried out more than a million background checks on behalf of gun dealers in September (a check is required with every sale), an increase of 12.4 per cent on the same period in the previous year.

 

[XMil]

The following quote from this article (Gun sales shoot up amid America’s fear of rising crime and terrorism - Times Online) is strange.

"Mike Golden, chief executive at Smith and Wesson, is sceptical about the so-called Obama effect on gun sales, believing that his company’s booming revenues have “nothing to do with the administration” and everything to do with the economy."

 

[henktermaat]

The following quote from this article (Gun sales shoot up amid America’s fear of rising crime and terrorism - Times Online) is strange.

Agreed... The economy may be a factor, but so is the ride in the political handbasket we're currently on.

 

[pudly]

No... Fears of a gun-grabbing, 2nd-amendment hating government has nothing to do with rising sales.