Pat Nabong/Sun-Times
SPRINGFIELD Gun dealers say they are selling more firearms than ever in the Chicago area since the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and they predict sales will shatter the records set during last year’s civil unrest and in the early days of the coronavirus panic.
“It’s the busiest you could ever imagine. It’s been lines around the block, out the door, around my store every day since March,” said Jeff Regnier, owner of Kee Firearms and Training in far southwest suburban New Lenox.
“Now recently we had the storm of the Capitol. That has gun sales 10 times from what it was in the pandemic, which was already 10 times what your normal business was.”