Gun Sales Are Up. Gee,...Could It Be The Kool-Aid?

[twyacht]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-11/glock-pistol-sales-surge-in-aftermath-of-shooting-of-arizona-s-giffords.html

Glock Pistol Sales Surge in Aftermath of Arizona Shootings
By Michael Riley

Greg Wolff, the owner of two Arizona gun shops, told his manager to get ready for a stampede of new customers after a Glock-wielding gunman killed six people at a Tucson shopping center on Jan. 8.

Wolff was right. Instead of hurting sales, the massacre had the $499 semi-automatic pistols -- popular with police, sport shooters and gangsters -- flying out the doors of his Glockmeister stores in Mesa and Phoenix.

“We’re at double our volume over what we usually do,” Wolff said two days after the shooting spree that also left 14 wounded, including Democratic Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who remains in critical condition.

A national debate over weaknesses in state and federal gun laws stirred by the shooting has stoked fears among gun buyers that stiffer restrictions may be coming from Congress, gun dealers say. The result is that a deadly demonstration of the weapon’s effectiveness has also fired up sales of handguns in Arizona and other states, according to federal law enforcement data.

“When something like this happens people get worried that the government is going to ban stuff,” Wolff said.

Sales Jump

One-day sales of handguns in Arizona jumped 60 percent to 263 on Jan. 10 compared with 164 the corresponding Monday a year ago, the second-biggest increase of any state in the country, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation data.

Handgun sales rose 65 percent to 395 in Ohio; 16 percent to 672 in California; 38 percent to 348 in Illinois; and 33 percent to 206 in New York, the FBI data show. Sales increased nationally about 5 percent, to 7,906 guns.

Federally tracked gun sales, which are drawn from sales in gun stores that require a federal background check, also jumped following the 2007 massacre at Virginia Tech, in which 32 people were killed.

“Whenever there is a huge event, especially when it’s close to home, people do tend to run out and buy something to protect their family,” said Don Gallardo, a manager at Arizona Shooter’s World in Phoenix, who said that the number of people signing up for the store’s concealed weapons class doubled over the weekend. Gallardo said he expects handgun sales to climb steadily throughout the week.

****
Liberals: The BEST FIREARM SALESPEOPLE IN THE COUNTRY

I'm sure their NOT all Glocks,....but they do have cookies,....

[alfsauve]

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-01-11/glock-pistol-sales-surge-in-aftermath-of-shooting-of-arizona-s-giffords.html

Glock Pistol Sales Surge in Aftermath of Arizona Shootings

Wolff was right. Instead of hurting sales, the massacre had the $499 semi-automatic pistols -- popular with police, sport shooters and gangsters -- flying out the doors of his Glockmeister stores in Mesa and Phoenix.[/b]

So how does he know that Glocks are popular with "gangsters"?   Was there a nation wide  survey? ....I missed it.  Or does he just interview them when they come into the store?    Hey are you a Gansta?  Okay, then don't be lookin at the pistol AR,  you'll be wanting a Glock, right?   And all this time I thought gangsta's wanted nickle plated Saturday night specials.

I'm sure their NOT all Glocks,....but they do have cookies,....

My gun range has cookies.  And it doesn't matter whether you buy Glock, Siq, or XD.

[MikeBjerum]

No, it isn't the Kool-Aid.  If you went on line and tracked Zondervan Publishing House and Tyndale Publishing you would have noted a steep increase in Bible sales from Thanksgiving through Christmas.  Logic says that gun sales needed to pick up soon.  It is the old chips and dip thing you know 

[kmitch200]

So how does he know that Glocks are popular with "gangsters"?   Was there a nation wide  survey?

One of my pet peeves: The (insert gun of the media moment here) is the favored weapon of criminals.

The "favorite" weapon of criminals is the one they can get their hands on.