"Anyone who thinks they need to rush out and buy a firearm clearly has not been paying attention to how quickly we make progress on this issue. We don't think these are first-time buyers. We think they are people who already have more than enough guns at their homes to protect themselves and are buying more."
They did a piece on the local news here (Illinois) yesterday, and the state police said that most of the increase in sales were first time buyers. Glad they checked the facts. Oh, thats right, the facts don't matter.