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   "Dominic"  wrote in message   
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   > Guns and ammunition are disappearing off store shelves in the Chicago   
   > area.   
   >   
   > Is it fueled by gun-ban fears, or something else?  CBS 2's Courtney   
   > reports.   
   >   
   > Several gun store owners say they started noticing a surge in sales after   
   > mass shootings like the ones in Aurora, Colo. and Newtown, Conn.   
   >   
   > To add fuel to the fire, customers really began flocking to their stores   
   > when   
   > politicians started talking about making changes to gun laws.   
   >   
   > Empty cases, bare shelves, and a phone that's been ringing off the hook -   
   > that's what things have been like for Don Mastrianni inside his Elmwood   
   > Park   
   > gun store.   
   >   
   > "You can't get them in here fast enough. As a matter of fact, for a while,   
   > I   
   > was selling things before I actually got them," Mastrianni, owner of   
   > Illinois   
   > Gun Works, says.   
   >   
   > He tells CBS 2 the state's proposed assault rifle ban and President   
   > Obama's   
   > vow to address gun laws has sent him customers by the dozen. They're   
   > buying   
   > whatever they can get their hands on, he says.   
   >   
   > "A lot of the politicians really are the gun industry's best salesman,   
   > because anytime they threaten to make some kind of regulation, everybody   
   > runs   
   > out," Mastrianni says.   
   >   
   > Bernadette Terry, co-owner of North American Firearms in Lombard, is   
   > noticing   
   > the same thing. She says even ammunition is now hard to come by.   
   >   
   > "Anything that has high-capacity availability: gone. People are grabbing   
   > it   
   > because they don't' think they'll be able to get it anymore," Terry says.   
   >   
   > State Sen. Dan Kotowski, D-Park Ridge, says he believes gun sellers are   
   > using   
   > such rhetoric as a marketing ploy to help boost sales. He is sponsoring   
   > the   
   > bill to ban assault rifles in Illinois.   
   >   
   > Gun store owners tell CBS 2 they're having a hard time replenishing their   
   > supply because most nationwide distributors are also out of stock.   
      
   Just proves that BinLaden was right to stop trying to bomb the USA and just   
   give money to the NRA, far more effective at killing Americans than trying   
   to blow them up.   
      
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