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Obama gun control push backfires as industry sees unprecedented surge

Obama gun control push backfires as industry sees unprecedented surge By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times – Wednesday, April 8, 2015 The American firearms industry is as healthy as ever, seeing an unprecedented surge that has sent production of guns soaring to more than 10.8 million manufactured in 2013 alone — double the total of just three years earlier. The 2013 surge — the latest for which the government has figures — came in the first full year after the December 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, signaling that the push for stricter gun controls, strongly backed by… View Article