'Feeding Frenzy' for Guns and Ammunition at Trail's End in Fridley
'The craze is on,' said the outdoors retail store's manager. The store limited purchases of military-style rifles to one per customer on Tuesday.
Firearms customers have been on a shopping spree this week at Trail's End in Fridley, according to Dennis Klein, manager at the outdoors store. "The craze is on," he said. "It's a feeding frenzy." People are buying "ammo like crazy" and "lots and lots of guns," Klein said. The store had sold out of extra magazines and 223 ammunition Tuesday, and had imposed a limit on sales of AR-type, military style guns of one per customer—"'til they're gone." See also: National Chains Stop Selling Rifles after Newtown Shooting Applications for gun permits hit a single-day record high in Anoka County on Monday, according to a St. Paul Pioneer Press reporter on Twitter, with 36 permit-seekers that day, Fox 9 reported. On Tuesday, the county accepted 32 …
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Jennifer
11:03 am on Saturday, December 22, 2012
Learning that Walmart is the largest retailers of weapons like the ones used in this shooting and others just added another reason for me to never shop there. Nice that they pulled some things for now for PR purposes, but why not take the lead in keeping families safe and choose at least ONE thing they don't try to squeeze a buck out of? Target doesn't sell weapons and that's one of MANY reasons … more ›