WTSP.com out of St. Petersburg, Florida last night ran a report on their 11:00 o’clock news about the recent spike in gun sales. The Tampa Bay area is no different than most places nationwide looking to buy guns and stock up on ammunition, mostly spurred on by a slumping economy and a new administration with a bad track record on Second Amendment issues and tons of talk of tightening up gun control laws.
People don’t like it when politician begin talking about taking away their guns. The Tampa Police Department reports that applications for concealed carry permits has increased sharply of late, also a good indication that gun sales are up.
Just as important and something that debunks much of the anti gun crowd’s lies, the Tampa Police Department says crime is down and that arming lawful citizens does not cause crime to go up.
“Criminals will always get guns. But, people getting permits are law abiding citizens with clean records.”
The gun grabbers have always put out false information that arming law abiding citizens causes more crime.
With this spike in gun and ammunition sales, we have reports of how difficult it is in some places to find guns and ammunition to buy. Just the other day I hit two Wal-Mart stores in the Clearwater/St. Petersburg area and both stores’ ammunition cabinets were essentially bare. One clerk said he didn’t know when the next shipment would come in and the waiting list for ammo was at least as big as the next order.
My advice is to make some calls and shop around. Many chain stores have larger inventories but there are also some smaller gun shops that have gear to sell.
Tom Remington
