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| Subject: Weapons sales boom following Dark Knight shootings Thu Jul 26, 2012 4:48 am | |
| GUN sales in Colorado have soared following the shootings in a cinema that claimed 12 lives and left 58 wounded.
Background checks on customers who bought guns were up 41 per cent after Friday's shooting at a packed cinema screening of the latest Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, according to The Denver Post.
The surge in gun sales and applications for gun permits has confounded expectations that the shootings would lead to a backlash over perceived lax gun control in the United States.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/weapons-sales-boom-following-dark-knight-shootings-20120725-22qse.html#ixzz21iUX6AZo
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