Quote King:
"The question I have is where do the people live who are doing the buying? Recreation or home defence, and for what reasons?"
That's a fair question and I'll answer this as best as possible. First off I live in a densly populated urban area in Arizona.
Additionally I work part time at one of the busiest gun shops here and spend a lot of time at shows.
The bulk of the purchases I have noted lately have been in the semi-automatic pistol(Glock,Sig etc.) and semi-automatic rifle(AR15,AK47 etc.) areas. Many of these have been purchased by new firearms owners and they usually have to be shown how to operate the gun. Everyone seems to be aware of the threat of a new "assault weapon" ban and also are very concerned for their own personal safety with the current economic and political climate we're facing. The shop has been completely sold out of AR 15 type rifles at times and the manufacturers are all back ordered from what I understand.
One of the Managers set up at the last major gun show here with 60 brand new AR15s made by DPMS. He sold all of them in less than one day. I'll post more as more information becomes available.
Jim
