After the Paris attacks, will gun sales go up?

[gejohnston]

5. maybe,

I don't know the process in France. However, it has started in Austria were pepper spray, tactical folders, and shotguns are flying off the shelves. Permits are not required to own a shotgun. applications for licenses for pistol and rifles have gone through the roof. Once those permits are processed and approved, those will be flying off the shelves too. Pepper spray in Germany have also increased. If their gun and carry laws were as liberal as ours, yes pistols would be flying off the shelves as well. Most of the purchasers are women.

In the US and Czech Republic, I expect to see more concealed carry and more businesses for instructors. Nothing changes the "only on TV" to "shit that could be me" like spree killers and terrorist attacks. That adds to the interest in CCW interest in gun sales. The spike of reported gun ownership during the late 1960s through the 1970s was partly a reaction to the increase in crime. Many of them sat in sock drawers for decades until discovered by adult children. Now you can pick up a slightly used Smith model 10.