In the article titled "Gun Sales Boomed in November," Smith discusses how Black Friday and Ferguson-related fears led to an increase of about 12% in gun sales from October. 1.8 million background checks were performed in November, with 175,000 occurring on Black Friday. Fear and anxiety often lead to increases in the amount of people buying guns, which is why ironically the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary led to the biggest month of sales ever since people were scared of gun restrictions passing. Those restrictions, however, never happened.
As more and more people continue to buy guns, it is more likely that people will push for gun restrictions, especially if more shootings occur. However, events like the one in Ferguson could lead people to instead not want gun restrictions because they would want self defense.
There are too many guns in circulation to prevent people from getting them. I would not be against gun legislation banning automatic weapons, but other legislation would do no good and anger many people since right to bear arms is guaranteed in the Constitution.
Well, automatic firearms are already banned and have been banned for some time and the only way to get one is to get a class 3 weapons permit, which is very difficult to obtain. I'm anxious to see how the spike in firearm sales will affect crime, although I'm almost positive the crime rate will not increase.
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