Gun Sales Surge: An Obama Bounce?

CNBC ^ | September 8, 2012 | Allen Wastler, managing editor

[longhorn too]

“I don’t know how you guys have so many”

In 1993 soon after Clinton was elected, I could see the writing on the wall, I started buying guns and ammo and have not looked back since!

[Conservative4Ever]

Bless you. Sounds like you have your home/security well under control. The artificial nails were just an alliteration example...not interested then, not interested now...I think us older gals have our priorities down pretty good. :-)

[Dr. Pritchett]

BTTT

[andy58-in-nh]

Prices seem to have been relatively stable this year for both guns and ammunition, owning to an increase in supply as well as demand. Unlike three years ago, ammunition shelves (at least in my region) are heavily stocked and firearms inventories are being replenished even though guns stores are clearly doing a brisk business.

[Joe Brower]

[ExSoldier]

Two weeks ago I went to the gun show (before they close that "loophole" ~nudge nudge, wink wink~) and bought a new Sig MK25 and a Rossi Circuit Judge. Then I went sailing with my best buddy and accidentally lost them both over the side in over a thousand feet of water. ~sigh~ Time to start all over...

[usconservative]

Man, talk about a tragedy! The same thing happened to me just yesterday. I was taking the boys out bass fishing when all of a sudden this big wave turns the boat over, sinking our fishing equipment, my beer cooler and my guns to the deepest part of the murkiest part of the lake. I fear they’ll never be recovered. And here I spent all my money on them, never to be replaced.

[Godzilla]

I contributed to the bounce this weekend :)

[ctdonath2]

An old saw states that a good handgun always costs about one ounce of gold.

Prices aren’t going up, the value of a buck is plummeting.

[gnarledmaw]

"...where is the corresponding spike in gun crime?"

At the ATF, there its called Fast and Furious.