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Member Section => Down Range Cafe => Topic started by: Ichiban on December 01, 2012, 07:12:45 AM

Title: Gun sales: It's not Obama after all. It's the Zombies.
Post by: Ichiban on December 01, 2012, 07:12:45 AM

It turns out that it is really preparation for the Zombie Apocalypse that is spurring guns sales after all.

Spike in gun sales attributed to 'Zombie Apocalypse'

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Spike-in-gun-sales-attributed-to-Zombie-Apocalypse--181630821.html (http://www.komonews.com/news/local/Spike-in-gun-sales-attributed-to-Zombie-Apocalypse--181630821.html)

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The volume of background checks actually shut down the FBI's system twice. Of course, those record sales aren't entirely due to the zombie craze, but Workman said it played a role.

"That's the zombie phenomenon," he said. "It has ignited a whole new generation of shooters out there."

Like gun shops throughout the country, Wade's carries special green-tipped zombie ammunition.

"Well, they have to be shot in the brain. I believe that's why they separated this out," said John Clarke of Wade's Gun Shop.