Ferguson Calm Like a Bomb: Whites Stockpiling Guns after protests

From [HERE] Gun sales in Missouri have increased in the past few weeks amid the unrest over a grand jury decision to exonerate a white police officer in the death of an African-American teenager. Gun shop owners said that firearm sales in the St. Louis area, which is adjacent to Ferguson, have increased sixfold in recent weeks.

Thousands of people have protested in over 100 US cities for several nights after a grand jury in St. Louis failed to indict police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of Michael Brown in Ferguson on August 9.

The Ultimate Defense Firing Range and Training Center in St Louis typically sells three to five guns a day, but in recent weeks, it says the number has risen to 20 or 30. Bastean said his company sold 33 guns and shooters fired 18,000 rounds on the practice range Tuesday, the day after protests in Ferguson turned into arson, looting and violence. [MORE]