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Anxiety Drives Increased Florida Gun Purchases
23 January 2003
Daytona Beach News Journal (Florida)
Bob Wood owns guns, shoots twice a month and is teaching his 5-year-old grandson to fire.
But he worries about other gun owners taking up arms as the dust settles from a tragic event.
One month after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, about 40,000 people asked the Florida Department of State for an application for a concealed weapons permit, roughly 20 times the norm. And local gun-shop owners say interest spiked last fall surrounding the type of rifle used in... (GunPolicy.org)
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