- Gun sales are up in Indiana, to the point where some stores are running short on both ammunition and weapons.
[...] The FBI says in 2007, it received about 187,000 criminal background requests from Indiana gun sellers. That figure grew to nearly 346,000 last year.
The number is up nearly double since the time before President Obama took office. And the surge has not ended – another 45,553 requests for background checks came in February, compared with 32,083 in the same period last year.
And that's just in Indiana.
Ruger has stopped accepting orders for new guns citing a backlog of over one million orders. Mossberg International won't even speculate on the wait time for its guns. If you have any sort of gun manufacturers in your stock portfolios, you are making a load of money as Ruger and Smith & Wesson are up over 100% each since April of last year. And this weekend's NRA convention in St. Louis? Record breaker? We'll see.