‘People are afraid’: Alabama gun shops see new run on guns, ammo following Capitol violence
Updated Jan 12, 2021;
“I’d say demand has gone up 1,000 percent. Not 100 percent, not 500 percent, but 1,000 percent,” said Tom Hand, owner of Gold Mine Pawn Shop in Daphne, Alabama. “If I had a shipload of ammo, I could have sold every bit of it.”
Gun shops acorss the country, from Los Angeles to Topeka, have been reporting similar rises,
There are a number of factors driving the surge in demand, multiple Alabama gun sellers told AL.com. And demand for ammunition was already high in the state and across the country before the events at the Capitol last week.