Guns fly off the shelves- Worry about new controls spurs sales in New England

[friendly_iconoclast]

http://www.boston.com/business/news/2013/01/29/gun-makers-sellers-new-england-overwhelmed-with-orders-for-firearms-ammunition-before-new-restrictions/MxRlEI6MxLFmATTzPMuOiL/story.html

Guns fly off the shelves
Worry about new controls spurs sales in New England

By Callum Borchers and Todd Wallack
Globe Staff / January 29, 2013

Gun manufacturers and retailers throughout New England are struggling to keep up with surging demand as buyers, worried their options may soon be limited, snap up firearms and ammunition.

Shops say they have sold out of many popular gun models, including variations of the AR-15-style rifle used in last month’s mass shootings in Newtown, Conn. Some retailers have resorted to capping the number of bullets customers can buy in an effort to preserve dwindling inventories, or taken to marking up prices.

The sharp increase in sales is fueled by the looming prospect of greater controls on firearms. Proposals to further restrict or regulate ownership are pending nationally and in Massachusetts.

The surge in purchases can be gauged by the wave of background checks required for prospective gun buyers. Nine of the 10 busiest days for background checks ever recorded by the FBI were in the past two months. In December alone, the agency performed 25,251 checks for would-be buyers in Massachusetts — an increase of 73 percent from a year earlier...

Good. I hope John Rosenthal got indigestion after reading that..

[ProgressiveProfessor]

1. Not just in New England

[ileus]

2. Plenty of OT for industry workers.

[Remmah2]

3. Did they sprout wings?

Are they flying out into public causing mayhem?
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[Lurks Often]

4. Picked up a rifle from my FFL yesterday

and from 11:30am when he got the last authorization and when he got mine about 4:15, some 353 authorization numbers had been given out, so that works out to at least 353 more guns sold in CT in about 5 hours. On a Wednesday, during the middle of the day when most people are working and things have slowed down of the past couple of weeks.

Yes it I bought a military rifle, one twice as powerful* as an AR-15 and it even has a bayonet lug.

Course the cartridge was originally developed in 1891 and the rifle was made in 1944...........



*7.62x54 Rimmed, 150gr bullet at 2840 feet per second which results in 2677 foot pounds of energy at the muzzle.
.223/5.56x45, 62 gr bullet at 3100 feet per second which results in 1303 foot pounds of energy at the muzzle.

[friendly_iconoclast]

5. Sounds like a beast to fire- then again, I'm a acknowledged wimp when it comes to recoil.

[ManiacJoe]

6. I am guessing it is a mosin nagant.

If so, it is probably heavy enough to absorb much of that recoil.

[kudzu22]

9. Ahh, the Mosin-Nagant

I have one of those. I can't fire more than 3 rounds before my shoulder can't take it anymore.

[arcane1]

8. Nope. Nice try though.