More AK-47s, Less Crime

If there's one industry doing well under the Obama Administration (other than lobbyists), it's the gun industry.  Fear that the the administration would push for more gun control drove sales up dramatically during his first term and probably will continue to do so into the second term.  Especially the guns most likely to get banned.

Mel Bernstein, owner of Dragonman Arms in Colorado Springs, told KOAA-TV that sales of semi-automatic weapons had boomed in recent days.

He said: "We're going from normally six to eight guns a day, to 25. I stocked up, I got a stockpile of these AK-47s, we're selling these like hot cakes. Luckily I had an idea of what was going on because it happened with Clinton."

Mr Bernstein said he normally orders up to 7,000 rounds a week from distributors but could now only get hold of 3,000 because of demand.

John Kielbasa, owner of Fernwood Firearms in Hankins, New York, told CNN: "Sales are up. I had a guy waiting here first thing in the morning (the day after the election.) He came in, bought two AK-47s. It's going to be good for me for business."

Despite that, the murder rate in the US was far lower in 2011 at 4.7/100,000 than its 1991 peak of 9.8/100,000. 

In other words, murder rates have decreased steadily since 1991, even though gun sales increased.

Clearly, "Liberals'" argument that more guns = more murder is false, even when referring to the really scary ones.