Four months after the election of President Barack Obama, firearms and ammunition sales in Tulsa remain at a fever pitch.
"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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It went on to say that there was a spike when President Clinton was elected and also thought that there was a spike because in hard times people do
bad things like home invasions and muggings and they want to protect themselves. Plus gun enthusiast wanting to get guns before the rumored tax it to
go on guns and ammo. Plus the new ban on so called assault weapons are driving up sales.
I myself am a supporter of gun rights and gun ownership. I think that everyone who are buying these guns have training in the care and handling of
their firearm or are planning to do so.