
Gun sales have reached record levels since Obama took office. This year they could pass 15 million for the first time:
"I think half of the people in the firearms industry, if asked, would hope [Obama] is not President, but then will secretly go out and vote for him again,” [gun manufacturer Michael Fifer] said. Talk like that won’t win Fifer any plaudits from the NRA. But it does capture the industry’s strange predicament: If gunmakers work too hard to defeat Obama, they may be shooting themselves in the foot.
(Photo of Sturm, Ruger & Co.'s “Coyote Special” commemorative gun for "A True Texan" in honor of Rick Perry, who shot a coyote while jogging.)