A First-Hand Account of Sharp Spike in Gun Sales

As anyone who knows something about Alabama can tell you, there is absolutely nothing short of a dire emergency that would interfere with the Alabama-Auburn game, known as 'the Iron Bowl.'

Yet on Saturday something surely did interfere with the game, and it was not a dire emergency. Well, not the type of emergency most of us might think.

A gun show was held at the massive Birmingham-Jefferson County Convention complex on Saturday, at the same time the Alabama-Auburn game was being played just a few short miles down the road in Tuscaloosa.

Normally on the day of the Iron Bowl, central Alabama, which includes Birmingham, is a virtual ghost town. The fans who are not present at the game are at home or at sports bars watching it on TV or listening to it on the radio.

But today, a vast number of those fans were at the gun show. So many, in fact, that it was difficult to get in the door. The lines were long, the tables were crowded, and the guns were flying out the door.

Our fellow gun blogger, Mike Vanderboegh, was there in the middle of the action.

Mike reports that consumers were packed into the arena like sardines in a can. And it was clear from the start that the primary motivating factor for the unprecedented sales of firearms and ammo was the pending Obama administration.

One thing is for sure, if Barack Obama and his gang of thugs are intent on coming after the guns and ammo, they are going to be faced with millions of citizens with arsenals stockpiled in their homes.

This, my friends, is a promise, and the numbers prove it.
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