WEST SPRINGFIELD/SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WGGB) –West Springfield’s Gun’s Inc. has seen a spike in sales since the horrific events at Sandy Hook Elementary School just over two weeks ago. “We did see an initial spike after Sandy Hook but it has since dwindled down and we’re just back to normal business,” said Phil Marcil, the store’s general manager.
He says the rush of business was a reaction to what happened, since it can take up to 6 months to legally purchase a firearm in Massachusetts.
Requests for Class A permits…which include handguns, rifles, shotguns, have jumped 36% since the tragedy. Shots rang out at this corner of Union and Oak streets in Springfield just after 1:30 AM Saturday. Luckily no one was injured, but the suspects did have several weapons violations, including no license to carry. It’s incidences like these that are making many people scared. “I actually grew up right over by there and it’s kind of scary to hear that on the streets that I’m afraid to drive through at this point,” Joseph Chistolini admitted. “That aspect scares me. It’s around kids, it’s not a good feeling,” another Connecticut woman said.
Still, Marcil questions how these sorts of situations happen in the first place. “That’s the bigger answer in Springfield. Where are these people getting the firearms they’re using? They’re not going into a gun store to buy them, so they’re buying them on the street.
Two arrests have been made in Saturday morning’s incident. Springfield police are still investigating.
omg really this so ridiculous dont ya think that was the biggest factor in the act plus we dont need more guns out here we need school and street officers not guns
it still takes more than 2 weeks to get an LTC. You have to first take a safety course, and then schedule an appt with your local/city arms clerk. Depending on how busy they are, that could take nearly a month. Processing after that and the picking up of the license can take anywhere from 1-3 months still (mine at renewal was very quick last year, less than a month, but depends on your police dept)
This creeps me out.
I’m never leaving my house again.
I love how they tag two different articles one with law abiding citizens obtaining weapons legally with morons who didnt have FID cards and were arrested lastnight. SMH.
Maybe a MEDICAL background check along with blood or hair testing should be included in the process before they go just handing out these permits. This is crazy,,,,,
They just don’t hand out permits. There’s a process for law abiding citizens.
Requiring medical background checks for gun permits is a guaranteed way to fast-track a total abolishment of the 2nd Amendment. Bad idea.
its just a piece of metal wood and plastic you can kill a person with anything shovel baseball bat plastic bag the news is so blah bla blah bull**** ive had guns since i was six weeks old never bothered me the world is full of idiots
“Im sure everyone has there own opinion, but I would like to share mine. Do your research please before stating anything. Please respect people for also having a different opinion than to “ban guns”. They arnt the bad guys. Plenty of people are sportsmen and women who have taken the required classes, understand the laws, and own LEGALLY for cultural and recreational purposes. If you think banning guns is going to help, your quite mistaken. A new law isnt going to make people that break the laws any less likely to break a law. Think about it. Did the proabition stop drinking? No. Do drug laws prevent drugs from getting into schools? Sadly, No. Criminals typically dont care about laws, incase you havent noticed. All that removing the 2nd ammendment would do is disarm the good guys, not remove illigal weapons off the streets and out of the hands of criminals. Also, if you go through history, nothing good has ever happened from disarming the public, and this ussually results in many deaths. Please look this up for your own benefit:) there is nothing wrong with more people getting an LTC. They have the RIGHT to.”
Last time I checked it was a license not a permit. It’s a right and a privledge to be able to own guns just like the right you people have to say all your stupid liberal rants on public Facebook pages. Just think in some countries half you morons could get killed for the **** you idiots say on here.
What does a bunch of idiots in Springfield shooting each other have to do with legal gun owners and people doing it the right way by getting permits.
I’ll say it again BAN ALL GUNS.
a permit is just a piece of paper ive owned guns my whole life didnt need a permit for **** heres the rules dont shoot another person the end.
I completely agree…. I have been having this discussion with quite a few. I can see Obamas admin saying that anyone who has ever taken a drug for some sort of mental health issue, including an anti anxiety type med (like xanax) for something as simple as taking the edge off of flying in a plane while petrified to do so – or dealing with the loss of a loved one and feeling extreme anxiety or going through a life threatening illness that has left someone anxious or with insomnia, etc. I can see them saying, sorry your not fit to own a gun. This is very bad news for those who exercise their 2nd amendment rights !
The biggest factor was the lack of sanity by the gunman.
@Chubbles Canada, England etc. have very little gun crimes compared to the USA. Sounds like you don’t travel much.Ty you sound like the Dumb American.
Yay , finally people are waking up…. Chicago has 500 homicides in a gun free city how’s that working out for them. Listen people of your afraid of guns because you’ve never shot one held one or even touched one , you better be some kinda ninja warrior because you and your family will become a soft target.. Definition of soft target “the criminals have no worries of messing you up because they know your defenseless ” get a clue !!!
say that when somebody pulls an illegal gun on you shawnm ever shoot beer bottles in the desert for fun doubt it most people live in a permanent psychosis igloo in new england travel people
Shawn I say we ban all idiots in media. But like banning all guns that’ll never happen.
and guns too around the wrong people and getting stolen doing drive by too i am so against it cause i almost lost someone really close to me cause some jerk wanted to go trigger happy at 3:00am while everyone was sleeping and no these are good people that work very hard to keep their kids safe and busted their butts just to buy their first home and their kid was very lucky to miss that bullet by inches from his head
i can careless for guns anyways and no its being a idiot but the idiots are the ones that let these nuts around guns and yeah who makes IT easier for the ones that dont have a FID CARDS think about it WOW
Free water pistols for the Mentally Ill. Lets get it straight, not all people with mental illness are murders. Some of us struggle through life playing “Hide the Disability”. Have you hug a person with mental illness…Could be your mother, father, sister, brother…or me.
@Ty tell the 500 homicide victims in Chicago whether they should ban guns. Tell the victims of Sandy Hook whether they should ban guns.
Wow Shawn your facts are fugged up. Get schooled , you are very incorrect .
Explain to the 500 why it was better to disarm them.