Mar 072009
Went to Ogden today (caught “Watchmen,” I thought it was good). While there I hit “Sportsmans Warehouse.” A few notes:
1) They used to have a big, big display of pistols available for sale. They now have maybe a dozen.
2) They used to have a lot of “assault rifles.” Today they had two.
3) They had no 9mm ammo. Almost out of all the other pistol calibers. Shockingly, that had almost no .22.
4) They had hunting shotguns out the wazoo.
I don’t know what things are like in other states, but it’s looking like Utahns are gearing up for a fight. So perhaps Obama really is going to bring us all together in unity…
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I was at Impact Guns on 1900 West (take Riverdale road West from Sportsman’s up to Burger Bar and hang a right and go three or four miles) and they have a large selection still. Shotguns, pistols, assault rifles, hell you can even buy .50 cal sniper rifles there.
Unfortunatly as we know now, it wasn’t a ‘buying’ spree it was because Sportsmen’s Warehouse was about to go under.
From what I’ve been reading sales for weapons has gone up a “little” bit, but not more than a ‘normal’ sales blip. The assumed cause is the economy and people having less money to ‘throw’ around.
Randy
> it was because Sportsmen’s Warehouse was about to go under.
SW is closing down a number of stores, but not, it seems, the one I visited. Also…. they were fully stocked on everythign else; they were packed to the gills on clothes and sports equipment and fishing supplies and hunting shotguns. But pistols and rifles were greatly depleted.
> sales for weapons has gone up a “little” bit
Ummmm….
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ec370966-18c9-11de-bec8-0000779fd2ac.html
“In November last year there were a record 1,529,635 background checks for gun licences in the US, up 42 per cent from the same period a year earlier, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. In January 2009 the number of background checks requested was 1.21m, up from 942,556 in the same month last year, and rose in February to 1.3m, up from 1m in February 2008.”