The decision by the Ferguson Grand Jury on whether or not to indict officer Darren Wilson for the killing of an unarmed teenager, Mike Brown, is almost here. And in preparation for that decision, gun sales have skyrocketed in Ferguson.
Metro Shooting Supplies, which is located near Ferguson, usually sells 30 to 40 firearms per week. But this week, the owner told The Washington Post, the store has sold 250. In other words, there has been about a 700 percent spike in sales.
“These people are afraid,” said owner Steve King. “One hundred percent of them are buying because of Ferguson.”
Defensor Tactical is a firearms shop in St. Louis that does a significant amount of business in body armor and custom rifles. John Heidbrink, an employee at the store, told The Huffington Post that Defensor Tactical has also seen an increase in sales lately.
“We’re a smaller shop in a small section of St. Louis, but we have a constant flow of business,” he said. “Our volume of sales has definitely increased — not to the order of what we saw right after Sandy Hook, but it’s definitely a constant flow. Lot of interest.”
