WYOMING GUN SALES SPIKE…BLAME OBAMA

According to a couple of Wyoming gun dealers, a recent heavy demand for guns has spiked sales for two compelling reasons: “doomsday concerns” and gun owners who fear that President Obama will “try to limit sales of guns and ammunition if he is re-elected.”

Not to mention that “there’s a black man in our precious White House!”

This thinly veiled racism has dogged the president since he was elected. To his credit, he does not play the race card. I am not that much of a high road traveler. So much of the Prepper/survivalist mentality is tied to the fact that Obama is America’s first black president it’s sickening. Their entire internal identity is “White Superiority.” They can’t come out and say it on air, but the reality is all the concerns about “economic collapse,” another war abroad, another terrorist attack is really the Preppers’ way of saying, “Hey, there’s a black man in our precious White House!”

“The election and people who think the U.S. is going to collapse or something,” explained Sean Wagner, operator of Rocky Mountain Discount Sports in Casper accounting for the increased gun sales. “People come in and buy loads of freeze-dried food and all kinds of survival-type stuff.”

Among his bestsellers are the expected hunting rifles and handguns as well as short-barrel riot shotguns and assault rifles like the military uses.

Several blogs back I mentioned that arms manufacturer Ruger has suspended new orders since they have a backlog of a million orders that they need to fill. Additionally, Strum, another manufacturer, “suspended new orders after receiving orders for more than one million guns in the first three months of the year.” (By the way, the report about Ruger and Strum comes from Fox News, so it may or may not be true.)

The owner of Frontier Arms in Cheyenne told a reporter that the heavy demand for weapons “will go on for the rest of the year mainly because of the election.”

There are rumors of new gun laws. For example, after a spat of homicides and shooting in Seattle last week, some Washington legislators are talking about new legislation. Personally, I’m not convinced legislators can do much to curb gun violence. Maybe if they focused on creating jobs by attracting new business and industry with tax incentives and attractive real estate deals they would have better luck. People with jobs are less likely to shoot on another (except maybe at the post office).

Of course, no matter what happens, some people will blame Obama because, ““Hey, there’s a black guy in our precious White House! End of Days! End of Days!”