US Election Triggers Upsurge in Sales of Military-style Assault Weapons




As polls and pundits in recent weeks increasingly pointed to the election of Barack Obama as the next president, scores of Utahns flocked to gun stores. Obama has supported renewing the expired federal Assault Weapons Ban, which stops the manufacture of several semiautomatic guns with large magazines. "Such weapons belong on foreign battlefields and not on our streets," Obama's Web... [Salt Lake Tribune (Utah), via gunpolicy.org ]


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