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Article: Top Gun
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- Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
- Article date:
- August 16, 2009
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PLATTEVILLE, Wis. - First one wandered in. Then another.
Shopper after shopper strolled through Bullseye Sports in
Platteville, and as the line began to stretch, it became apparent
that something drove these soon-to-be buyers.
"Fear," said Ben Breuer, clerk and gunsmith at the store. "I knew
this was going to happen once Obama was elected president."
In a time when countless American industries fall prey to the
nation's recession, one section of stores seems unscathed.
"People are always going to want their guns," Breuer said.
Recent economic indicators prove the Platteville worker correct,
according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The organization's
National Instant Criminal ...