Headline: "Gun and Ammo Sales Shoot Higher"

Even though Barack Obama worked to convince voters that he meant no threat to their gun rights, Americans seem to be casting their votes against Obama - with their wallets.

Youngstown's ABC affiliate, WYTV, is reporting that all across the country, including here in Ohio, gun and ammunition sales have shot through the roof in the week since Election Day.

From the story:

"We've had a constant barrage of customers wanting to purchase semi-automatic firearms, stuff that was banned in the Clinton administration, they're looking to buy it again", says Mike Miller of Miller Rod & Gun in Boardman Township.

Gun owners are apparently concerned a newly elected democratic President, with a democratic majority in Congress, could return us to the gun control laws of the mid nineties, specifically, the assault weapons ban signed by President Clinton.

"They came in and limited magazine capacities, they limited the type of firearms, the configuration of firearms", says Miller.

"You were only able to have certain features on a rifle that the Clinton administration had deemed more dangerous, or less effective. I guess was their goal", adds Rick Kaleda, Northeast Ohio Chairman of Buckeye Firearms Association.

The story notes that the ban was lifted in 2004, and asserts that it's only speculation Obama would reinstate it. "Speculation?" Hardly. In fact, Obama placed reinstatement of the Clinton Gun Ban on his Change.gov agenda late last week.

"President elect Obama said that he believed in the second amendment, and I'm sure he did believe in it, he just didn't agree with any of it", says Kaleda.

"They show him in a couple interviews saying that he has no problems with Americans owning firearms, then he kind of chops it up into which firearms he thinks we should own", says Miller.

Kaleda and Miller say banning guns in the name of crime prevention never works since the criminals will still break the laws. Miller says,

"That firearm is not ultimately the tool of destruction, the tool of destruction is the person using the firearm."

The article concludes by noting that both men agree law abiding citizens and sportsmen who own guns legally should continue to have that right.