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Gun sales up following Obama's election
Posted: 11.07.2008 at 10:33 AM
Elizabeth MacFarland

Elizabeth MacFarland is a morning anchor and news reporter with NBC25.

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BAY COUNTY -- The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says gun sales have tripled since the election of Barack Obama because people fear Obama will tighten gun restrictions. Michigan gun shop owner Glenn Duncan says he's seen a sales spike too,  "in the last two weeks, the owner of Duncan's Outdoor Shop in Bay City says sales have doubled. They're (buyers) worried if they don't buy them not they won't be able to get them."

Senator Barack Obama does support a ban on carrying concealed weapons and a ban on assault weapons. Duncan tells NBC25 that scares hunters "that's what deer hunters use that's what duck hunters use and so it kind of scares a lot of people right now." NBC25 caught up with Doug Krentz, he's a verteran who stand firm on his right to bear arms, "I'm not going to give up my guns for anybody. I took an oath in 1965 to defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic."

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