"A huge spike for business”
For the past two days, Steve King has been “unbelievably busy” at his gun store, Metro Shooting at 11434 St. Charles Rock Road. King said business spiked 50 percent as local residents respond to the violent events taking place in Ferguson.
“We’ve sold a variety of handguns, shotguns and AR-15s (a semi-automatic rifle),” King said. “All of the sales are having to do with home defense.”
King, who owns the store that has 17 employees and 2013 revenue of about $2 million, added that customers have ranged from new firearm buyers to those upgrading their current arsenal. He said both black and white individuals have purchased firearms at his store over the past few days.
“Usually it’s pretty slow through the summer, but this has been a huge spike for business,” King said. “People are hunkering down because those events are taking place too close to their own home … in some cases, a half a mile away. Lots of people are afraid.”
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Everyone's recognizing that the police can't/won't respond to their residences quick enough...some are also recognizing that they may need to be able to defend themselves from police overreach of authority!
ReplyDeleteI can see in the not too distant future, citizenry 'overwhelming and detaining' overzealous local officers until higher external authority arrives.
It does not help matters that a movie has already begun filming.The thought process was that the real time intensity & heat of the moment could not be re created after the fact.A filming crew is wading through the mayhem as we speak,or as we read.Where there's a buck,there's a buck to be made.
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