{"id":3706,"date":"2012-02-21T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T18:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/?p=3706"},"modified":"2012-02-21T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T18:17:11","slug":"barack-obama-greatest-gun-salesman-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/barack-obama-greatest-gun-salesman-in-america\/","title":{"rendered":"Barack Obama, &#8220;Greatest Gun Salesman in America&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tue, 21 Feb 2012<\/p>\n<p>American firearm sales and concealed handgun permit applications are at all-time highs since the 2008 election of President Barack Obama. President Obama&#8217;s perceived hostility towards gun owners has been one of the key factors behind the multi-year financial boom the firearms industry continues to enjoy. In fact, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is actively preparing to work to defeat President Obama&#8217;s 2012 re-election campaign, according to Wayne LaPierre, the CEO of the NRA, who recently said the following at the 2012 Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Washington, D.C.:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>&#8220;Lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term. We see the president&#8217;s strategy crystal clear: Get re-elected and, with no more elections to worry about, get busy dismantling and destroying our firearms&#8217; freedom, erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights and excise it from the U.S. Constitution&#8230;When the sun goes down on election day Barack Obama will have America\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gun owners to thank for his defeat.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> &#8211;<br \/>\n<strong>Wayne LaPierre, CEO of the NRA, February 10th, 2012<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ironically, the perceived hostility towards gun owners by President Obama has actually helped the firearms industry tremendously. Since the 2008 election, more Americans than ever before are purchasing firearms &amp; ammunition. This has meant massive increases in sales by firearm &amp; ammunition makers, billions more in federal and state tax collections related to guns &amp; ammo, increased membership in the NRA, and hundreds of thousands of new Americans carrying concealed handguns. Therefore, should the firearms industry support President Obama for a second term or not?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Greatest Gun Salesman In America: President Barack Obama [INFOGRAPHIC]\" href=\"http:\/\/ammo.net\/obama\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/cdn1.ammo.net\/media\/images\/infographics\/Greatest-Gun-Salesman-In-America-President-Obama.jpg?resize=800%2C6284\" alt=\"The Greatest Gun Salesman In America: President Barack Obama [INFOGRAPHIC]\" width=\"800\" height=\"6284\" border=\"0\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nVia: <a title=\"ammo\" href=\"http:\/\/ammo.net\/\">Ammo.net<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 American firearm sales and concealed handgun permit applications are at all-time highs since the 2008 election of President Barack Obama. President Obama&#8217;s perceived hostility towards gun owners has been one of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[11],"tags":[7758,1478,6055,7762,146,2035,224,7168,7761,7765,7759,669,4287,3439,4,7763,7760,7764,4288,3440,6618],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/savingtherepublic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}