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“Unprecedented”: Gun sales keep skyrocketing as Congress mulls new laws

Even allowing for spikes in gun sales that follow every mass killing in the United States and attendant political debates about gun control, industry executives said the surge seems unprecedented.

In some areas, a buyer walking into a gun store now will have to wait up to a year to buy a military-style assault weapon. The prices of available semiautomatics have doubled as buyers bid up the dwindling supply, and stocks of Glock handguns are also low…

Nationally, there were 2,783,765 background checks last month, an increase of 38 percent over November, according to FBI statistics. That is the single highest month since 1998, the year the FBI launched the program as a requirement of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. On Dec. 21, the FBI processed 177,170 background checks, a single-day record.

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the surge seems unprecedented.

As with so many other things with this precident president.

cozmo on January 17, 2013 at 11:23 PM

picking up a glock 19 next week!

tom daschle concerned on January 17, 2013 at 11:25 PM

The storm is gathering.

Someone tell the cloistered folks at WaPo that the citizens in flyover country are quickly approaching their limit of elitist, condescending, arrogant socialism spewing out of DC.

…
and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security. – Declaration of Independence

We’re getting tired of the abuses of our Constitution and our republic.

Charlemagne on January 17, 2013 at 11:26 PM

Buyers are being forced to wait up to a year? By the free market ? Please explain to the libs that the free market is doing what they can’t. Again.

Washington Nearsider on January 17, 2013 at 11:31 PM

i love it.

Sachiko on January 17, 2013 at 11:32 PM

There’s a gun show coming to my area soon that my wife wants to go to. We’ve been talking about getting a gun for a while and now that we are actually getting serious about it because she’s home alone more often now, this crap happens and sends prices up….

Queasy on January 17, 2013 at 11:45 PM

Prediction: A citizen’s gun will end this Unconstitutional Regime.

Well within the bounds of the law.

wildcat72 on January 17, 2013 at 11:47 PM

picking up a glock 19 next week!

tom daschle concerned on January 17, 2013 at 11:25 PM

Nice. My wife wants to start carrying and she has chosen Sig Sauer P238, if only I could find one somewhere. None of the gun stores have them….frustrating.

tommer74 on January 17, 2013 at 11:55 PM

At some point very soon, libtards will begin to grasp what they woke up.

roy_batty on January 18, 2013 at 12:21 AM

Remember, this surge is on top of the already massive gun sales that 0bama triggered in his first term.

Kinda sucks, even makarov ammo and mini-14 mags are impossible to find nowadays, guess who’s kicking himself for not stocking up when the stocking up was good?

This guy.

Rebar on January 18, 2013 at 1:30 AM

I love how the WaPo minimizes the issue with the headline:

“Gun control debate may be driving higher sales”

…as if there’s some kind of doubt.

Purple Fury on January 18, 2013 at 1:55 AM

Nationally, there were 2,783,765 background checks last month, an increase of 38 percent over November, according to FBI statistics. That is the single highest month since 1998, the year the FBI launched the program as a requirement of the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act. On Dec. 21, the FBI processed 177,170 background checks, a single-day record.

I guess this refudiates the comment earlier someone made about not getting too excited about the NRA’s membership because it was made up in large part of leftist infiltrators. Also, if there is a Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act already, why is there still crime?

Night Owl on January 18, 2013 at 2:03 AM

There is a limit to how long the waits can get and how much the prices can skyrocket….

cthulhu on January 18, 2013 at 2:10 AM

I’ve never been an AR15 or 5.56NATO (or Glock) fanboy and I’m glad of it now.
I stocked up on ammo and mags for my battle rifles that I don’t handload, and on fixin’s for the calibers that I do reload before the economy was tanked and I’ve kept my stock up pretty well. Having been around guns all my life I already had my weapon and accessory ducks in a row before all the craziness started so I haven’t had to worry about any of it. I’ve just been watching in amazement from the sidelines.
This is a society preparing for war. That we have been brought to such a state intensifies my hatred for the enemy.

single stack on January 18, 2013 at 6:07 AM