{"id":40544,"date":"2016-06-17T15:46:48","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T19:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=40544"},"modified":"2016-06-17T15:48:04","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T19:48:04","slug":"gun-sales-to-gays-lesbians-skyrocket-following-orlando-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=40544","title":{"rendered":"Gun Sales to Gays, Lesbians Skyrocket Following Orlando Terror Attack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by<\/span> AWR HAWKINS
\nBreitbart.com<\/span><\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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Gun sales to gays and lesbians are skyrocketing in the wake of the Orlando terror attack.<\/h2>\n

Alleged Islamist Orlando attacker Omar Mateen was \u201cangered\u201d by watching two men kiss, according to The Daily Beast<\/a>. His alleged attack on a gay nightclub\u2013Pulse Orlando\u2013killed approximately 50 and wounded 53.<\/p>\n

Fox 31 Denver<\/a> reports that gun sales to gays and lesbians are now through the roof. George Horne owns Denver\u2019s The Gun Room and he says business \u201cfor this time of year\u2026[is] three to four\u00a0times what [they] normally have.\u201d He and other gun store owners and instructors say the surge isn\u2019t unprecedented\u2013there is usually one after a high-profile attack\u2013but what is unprecedented are the numbers of gay and lesbian customers.<\/p>\n

Mike Smith is a Colorado Springs firearms instructor and he suggests the surge in gay and lesbian customers reminds us that gun owners are no longer the stereotypical group of old white men. He said, \u201cI think right now because of what happened, people are looking for answers. You walk into a gun shop and you expect to see people, frankly, who look like me. I think we forget we\u2019re a country of all people, not just people who fit that predetermined mold.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Pink Pistols\u2013a gay gun rights group\u2013saw their membership grow over 100 percent on June 13 alone.<\/p>\n

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