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Obama Election Boosts Economy

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 2:19 pm
by dbackjon
Within hours of the election of Barack Obama, sales are booming, spurring the economy!!!



Bernie Conatser has never seen business this good.

The owner of a gun shop in the Washington suburb of Manassas, Virginia, Conatser said sales have doubled or tripled since this time last year.

On Saturday, he said, he did as much business as he would normally do in a week.

"I have been in business for 12 years, and I was here for Y2K, September 11, Katrina," Conatser said, as a steady stream of customers browsed what remained of his stock. "And all of those were big events, and we did notice a spike in business, but nothing on the order of what we are seeing right now."

Weapons dealers in much of the United States are reporting sharply higher sales since Barack Obama won the presidency a week ago.

Buyers and sellers attribute the surge to worries that Obama and a Democratic-controlled Congress will move to restrict firearm ownership, despite the insistence of campaign aides that the president-elect supports gun rights and considers the issue a low priority.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/11/11/oba ... index.html

Re: Obama Election Boosts Economy

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 3:56 pm
by AZGrizFan
Leave it to you to spin this as a positive....gun sales are up!! Yay!!!

Re: Obama Election Boosts Economy

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 4:06 pm
by dbackjon
AZGrizFan wrote:Leave it to you to spin this as a positive....gun sales are up!! Yay!!!
Of course... :lol: :lol: :lol:

Re: Obama Election Boosts Economy

Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:42 pm
by grizzaholic
That is pretty much the only economy that is up. I know sales are up 25-35 percent after the election.