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Is Obama Gun salesman of the Decade?

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President Barrack Obama will no doubt, as all US Presidents have, leave a legacy. One of  his legacies seems to be one of a giant increase in firearms ownership and an unprecedented acquisition of arms and ammunition by the American public.

After President Obama’s 2008 victory over the McCain-Palin Republican ticket, the sales of  firearms and ammunition skyrocketed. According to research from the Wall Street Journal, collections of federal excise taxes on the sale of new firearms and ammunition, a proxy for gun sales, rose to $453 million in 2009, a 45% jump from the year before. According to the same this week, Cabela’s saw a 25% increase in new gun buyer’s right after the 2008 election, and continues to see strong sales, aided by an uptick in female and younger customers. For those who can remember back just three short years ago the price of
anything 5.56/.223 or 7.62 (in any flavor) suddenly inflated and the ammunition in those same calibers suddenly went on backorder across the country.

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The Next Assault Weapons Ban

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Firearms legislation is a funny think in the United States. In 1775, the 10th Regiment of Foot of King George took a march in the countryside on a mission to seize privately held arms and munitions. These red coats, as they were called, were held up at a little village of Lexington by local militia members and the rest is history. Since the 2nd amendment was added to the US Constitution, there have been several public laws and acts that have come and gone to limit it. Some of these, like the black codes of the 1860s, the ten years long Clinton-era Assault Weapons Ban (AWB), and the 1994 Brady Bill has largely been overturned. Others, like the National Firearms/Gun Control Acts of 1934, 1938, and 1968 along with the establishment of the ATF (now the BATFE) in 1972 remain.

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