Surprise winner of Obama stimulus spending: gun industry

[friendly_iconoclast]

From the Christian Science Monitor

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0911/p02s15-usgn.html

Surprise winner of Obama stimulus spending: gun industry

Police departments are using some of the stimulus money to arm up, helping to make Obama 'gun salesman of the century.'

By Patrik Jonsson | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor

Atlanta
Many gun-loving Americans are convinved that President Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress are bent on ripping rifles from their "cold, dead hands," as actor Charlton Heston once declared at a National Rifle Association meeting.

But from the perspective of police departments – not to mention gunmakers – the Obama administration may go down as one of the most gun-friendly in history. Across America, police departments are using the taxpayer-funded stimulus bill to boost their arsenals with shotguns, handguns, and assault rifles.

Among the general public, a record 1 million guns were sold across the United States in August alone, rebuffing expectations that, after 10 months, the post-Obama election gun-buying spree would abate. US gunmaker Smith & Wesson on Wednesday reported a 30 percent rise in sales in the first quarter, leading to unexpected profits and a rising stock price.

But as police departments order new firearms using stimulus funds, there's more than a little irony in the fact that a president whom the gun industry looked upon with suspicion has put forward a federal program from which gunmakers are benefiting....

[Libertas1776]

1. BUT, BUT, BUT!!!!!!!!!!!........BUT

'Bama the gun hating Kenyan socialist is gonna take my guns away :sarcasm:

[create.peace]

2. johnny got his gun, huh?nt

[Treo]

4. Gun Grabbers

on either side of the aisle have never had a problem arming the police it's the unwashed masses they don't want armed

[armyowalgreens]

3. I was trying to purchase a Remington tactical 870 but they were sold out in all the stores.

And Remington had a backorder for at least a couple months.

Business is definitely booming