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Gun Sales '100 Times' Higher Since Election

Buyers Say They Fear Obama Will Limit Second Amendment

POSTED: 5:19 pm PST November 7, 2008
UPDATED: 6:30 pm PST November 7, 2008

Ever since Barack Obama became the U.S. president-elect on Tuesday night, gun and ammo sales have gone way up all across the country, and gun sellers said the Portland area is no different.

The Beavercreek Armory owners said their sales have double since Election Day.

They said longtime gun owners are scared about the shift in power and are trying to stock up.

Joann Frazier made her usual sales pitch for potential gun buyers Friday, but she said she'd made it an unusually large number of times.

Since the election, she and her husband, David, said they can hardly keep up with demand.

“It’s just an ebb and flow of business, usually. But sales have increased by 100 times,” Joann Frazier said.

At one point Friday, Joann Frazier said 20 customers were packed inside their small store and all of the chatter was the same.

She said longtime gun owners are stocking up on new firearms and ammo because many of them see Obama as a threat to their rights.

“They’re concerned. They’re uncertain about what direction we’re going. What direction the president-elect is going,” Joann Frazier said.

Scott Levitt has been around guns since he was a child.

“The guns I have, I’ll always have. I’m a Second Amendment believer,” Levitt said.

And as a customer, he said even he’s noticed an increased interest in people buying guns for the first time.

“I have some friends who’ve all gone out and done the rush – the mad buy. So it’s a sign of the times,” Levitt said.

As a store owner, Joann Frazier said she loves the wave of new business this week. But as a gun owner, she is worried about Obama’s bigger picture.

“Without sounding terribly political, I do feel that some of our constitutional rights are at risk,” Joann Frazier said.

Gun Sales '100 Times' Higher Since Election

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