Four months after the election of President Barack Obama, firearms and ammunition sales in Tulsa remain at a fever pitch.
Popular self-protection ammunition is often sold out at local stores, weapons are flying off shelves and the state reports an 87 percent increase in concealed carry permit applications for February 2009 over February 2008.
“People are hoarding. They’re creating a shortage,” Jim Prall at Sports World on 41st Street said of ammunition sales. “We’ve sold more ammunition in the last three months than we sold last year.”
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Gun sales spiked in November with the election of Barack Obama and Democrats adding to their majority in Congress. But local gun dealers say the spike is turning into a steady climb with political worries about gun rights as well as worries about the economy and potential for increased crime.
Prall said his store planned ahead for the increase, having seen a similar spike after Bill Clinton was elected, but the previous jump in sales pales in comparison to what’s happening now.
“Most we’re selling now we got back in September, but we bought pallets then where normally we wouldn’t have ordered that much.”
March 14th, 2009 at 9:31 am
Get em while you can…
March 14th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
I see them like insurance you hope you don’t ever need to use. I like peace and harmony but will use guns and ammo to depend if needed.
March 15th, 2009 at 9:56 am
“People are hoarding. They’re creating a shortage,”….THE IS ABSOLUTE BULLSH*T! Look, gun and ammunition manufacturers HAVE NOT RAISED THEIR PRICES. EVERY GUN BILL PROPOSED SO FAR HAS BEEN SHOT DOWN, ITS NOT OBAMA MAKING THE PRICES GO THROUGH THE ROOF!!! It is the gun stores and these gun store owners greed!!! Remember that next time you buy a box of ammo at twice the price of previous years.
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March 15th, 2009 at 9:59 am
PS- BUY ONLINE FROM FELLOW PATRIOTS. PUT EXTRA MONEY IN LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE’S POCKETS.
March 15th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
now how are we suppsed to get anything done(like work and family stuff) if we are hypersensitive to the craziness of the ’so called’ WATCHERS, all the while watching the watchers to keep them in check? There seems to be way too much watching going on and not quite enough ‘DOING”, (or spell checking for that matter…)
Watchers, watchers of watchers, watchers watching the watchers of the watchers watcher, just where will it end????????????? I know, jesus is coming
March 15th, 2009 at 8:50 pm
STOP HOARDING AND START USING: For the watchers, just kidding!!!!!!!!!!
March 16th, 2009 at 4:54 am
gunbroker.com is the place to go for guns and ammo. Ammo comes right to your door, guns need to go to a FFL holder. Lots of auctions and “buy it now”. I recommend calling the ammo dealers direct that you find on the site.