Americans Are Emptying Shelves And It Is Not Toilet Paper


Long lines and empty shelves at gun stores across the USA resemble supermarkets as Americans are stocking up on firearms and ammunition.

The online ammunition retailer,Ammo.com, reported that sales were reportedly up almost 70 percent between February 23rd and March 4th, while one gun shop owner in Smyrna, Georgia said he’s moving five-times more ammunition than normal. A store in Meridian, Idaho even started putting limits on ammo sales and told prospective buyers they couldn’t purchase more than two handguns per day, or more than one AR or AK-platform rifle per day.

While it’s possible, if not likely, that the events of the past week — a plunging stock market, mass event cancellations and photos of empty grocery store shelves — have contributed to a new sales spike, gun sales and background checks were reportedly up this year already. There were 5.5 million background checks conducted in January and February, per the FBI, and while gun sales tend to rise in election years, the 350,000gunssold so far in 2020 is far ahead of the tally at this point back in 2016.

 

 

 


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