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President Obama has been rightfully criticized by conservatives for
his hostile attitude toward small business. Certain business owners,
however, said the president has helped their respective bottom lines significantly — and completely by accident.
Concern about how leftist policies might negatively impact Second
Amendment rights has resulted in record gun sales and related FBI
background checks.
The development led one Texas gun store owner to call Obama “the
greatest gun salesman of all time,” adding that whenever “he talks about
guns, sales go through the roof.”
Corresponding with Obama’s first election win, the FBI conducted
about 1.5 million more background checks in 2008 than in the previous
year. That number rose steadily throughout his first term.
Apparently in preparation of expected semi-automatic weapon bans, a
Colorado gun store owner said such guns have been flying off his
shelves.
Shortly after Obama’s reelection, he said sales of so-called “assault rifles” more than tripled the usual rate.
“I stocked up,” he said. “I got a stockpile of these AK-47s, we’re
selling these like hot cakes. Luckily I had an idea of what was going on
because it happened with Clinton.”
Though he hasn’t explicitly embraced Bill Clinton-style gun bans,
Obama did mention his support of such legislation in a 2012 presidential
debate.
“What I’m trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how
do we reduce the violence generally,” he said. “Part of it is seeing if
we can get an assault weapons ban reintroduced.”
Not all of the increased gun sales can be attributed to an
anticipated loss of freedom, though. Some buyers feel a firearm arsenal
will be the only way to survive in an uncertain American future.
One individual, who said he has been stockpiling guns since the
2008 election, called his collection “my Obama hedge fund,” explaining
he and several colleagues have bought guns for security reasons.
“As the economy gets tougher and as the country grows its debt,
people are going to become desperate and … they will turn to stealing
and robbing and violence,” he added.
It is a stretch to call the unintended rise in gun sales a silver
lining when a black cloud of socialism and ineptness continues to
prevail among our nation’s leaders. Still, as abhorrent as the left
finds guns and gun dealers, it is a bit of sweet justice that their very
policies have actually helped these same people get rich.
B. Christopher Agee founded The Informed Conservative in 2011. Like his Facebook page for engaging, relevant conservative content daily.
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