Gun Enthusiasts Pack (gun) Shows To Buy Assault Weapons

[CurtEastPoint]

8. Here in ATL today, too (well...Cobb County...figures)

http://www.ajc.com/news/news/cobb-gun-show-attracts-scores-looking-for-semi-aut/nTdMm/

Early attendees left the show wheeling cases of ammunition, while individual gun owners worked the long line arranging private sales of assault-style weapons.
To a man — and to an occasional woman — the crowd dismissed calls for stricter gun laws as wrong headed.
“If they are going to commit a crime, they will find a way to get a weapon to commit a crime. The only thing they are doing is disarming the law-abiding citizens,” said Scott Burt of Paudling County.
Apart from the shows, gun shops around the nation have been swamped with customers seeking to get a jump on a feared federal crackdown. Scott Austin, owner of Tucker Gun, a shop on U.S. 29 in Tucker, called it “the apocalypse of gun control.”

“You’ve got nothing to lose now. The Democrats always want to take your guns,” he said.

With few exceptions, Georgia gun owners do not have to register their weapons, but they do have to get a license if they intend to carry a handgun. From 2002 through last year, probate court judges issued nearly 730,000 such licenses, with demand peaking at 101,684 licenses in 2008.