Business & Energy

Gun Sales Up 80% During Wuhan Flu Outbreak

By Andy Hogue

April 03, 2020

Shutdowns related to the coronavirus/COVID-19 situation are unprecedented, so now we’re naturally seeing unprecedented levels of gun transactions taking place. Again, this is no surprise, but it’s also nothing to fear. Guns save lives. In a worst-case scenario of a prolonged pandemic and even martial law, guns in the hands of average citizens is a check on government power as much as a means to ward off looters, rioters, and other potential baddies.

Whether Wuhan Flu takes the sales record away from Obama has yet to be seen, but then again Obama had eight years.

Source: National Shooting Sports Foundation, via International Sportsman.