Obama gun control push backfires as industry sees unprecedented surge

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The American firearms industry is as healthy as ever, seeing an unprecedented surge that has sent production of guns soaring to more than 10.8 million manufactured in 2013 alone — double the total of just three years earlier.

The 2013 surge — the latest for which the government has figures — came in the first full year after the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, signaling that the push for stricter gun controls, strongly backed by President Obama, did little to chill the industry despite the passage of stricter laws in states such as New York, Maryland, Connecticut and California.


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[Defnestor]

No if the sob would only attack all the other business in the U.S., we might see some economic improvement.

 

[ConstitutionCowboy]

Maybe Obama owns some stock.

Woody

 

[dennishoddy]

Is Obama behind the .22 shortage?

 

[Commander Keen]

Is Obama behind the .22 shortage?

I've heard that Michelle has is quite the kneckbeard.