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More people giving guns as Christmas gifts
Most gun owners will list through life, spending thousands of dollars arming themselves for the conflict with the bad guy that will never come.
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Past year about 180,000 background checks were conducted.
They’re the hot ticket item topping millions of Christmas lists this year.
That increase coincided with the coordinated terrorist attacks at multiple sites in Paris by ISIS gunmen on November 13 that killed 130 people and wounded 368.
“The knee jerk reaction of politicians is immediately after an event like [San Bernadino] to take advantage of it for political goals and will try to restrict the rights of law-abiding gun owners”, Sam Paredes, spokesman for Gun Owners of America, told ABC.
Womack said in her state, purchasing guns as Christmas presents is legal as long as it is for someone in the same state and all of the appropriate paperwork is filled out.
Many Americans are wrapping up guns to put under their tree.
Shop owners across the USA have reported a marked increase in interest over the holiday season, and gun background checks hit a new record on Black Friday. But gun shops have not seen a surge this big since President Obama’s re-election.
Matt Geiser, of Geiser Guns, Sunbury, Pa., told the Sunbury, Pa., The Daily Item that he has also seen a spike in sales intended for self-protection.
“I think with everything going on right now, it’s only going to get harder to get, to buy a handgun”, Weinschenk said.
But owning a gun is great if you want to play dress-up and pretend you’re a mighty warrior when you’re not.
“There’s definitely been an increase”, he told us.
Other shop owners are reporting a spike in first-time gun purchases.
“I’ve see an explosion”, said Tim Tomich of Tim’s Shooting Academy in Westfield.
It’s a way of thinking those selling the guns have heard a lot lately.
In Albuquerque, New Mexico, many shoppers recently looked to purchase a gun in the holiday rush.
It’s not only men seeking out firearms.
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“A lot of women are lining up for our safety courses which is good to see because the industry has been unfortunately male dominated”.