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florida-gun-show-sees-record-attendance-over-the-weekend-n2454300
Several sellers said they were on track to double their normal sales for a
weekend. “It’s sad to say, but whenever there’s a shooting, business only
goes up because people are afraid of losing their right to own a certain
weapon,” said Quaidman Woody, who was running a booth with his father, a
sales representative for CrossHeirs. “So even if they don’t need another
AR, they’ll buy another AR or pieces of it.”
[…]
“We’ve lost our perspective on what’s really happening,” said Scott
Rollf, who owns a company called 22mods4all. He said customer concerns about
potential legal limits on guns had perked up sales after a decline in
demand in recent months led him to reduce prices.
Mr. Rollf said he approved of Gov. Rick Scott’s proposal to raise the
minimum age in Florida to buy firearms to 21 from 18.
He was also fine with banning so-called bump stocks and other attachments
that increase firing speeds, which he views as “useless” for hunting and
unsafe in other applications.
[…]
Norman Carolino, who was selling body armor at the Tampa show, called the
scrapped plans a disservice to people looking for protection. He said most
of his sales on Saturday were to teachers, school administrators and “
parents who are scared to death.”
“I’m wiped out of everything,” he said. “There are parents in here who’
ve never seen the inside of a gun show.”
[…]
Mr. Woody estimated that only 10 percent of gun show shoppers were firearms
aficionados. The rest, he said, are either newcomers or dabblers. Many
buyers have never purchased an AR-15 before, he said. |
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