Sales of guns shoot skyward (The San Angelo Standard-Times)

The recession has hit a lot of people hard with job layoffs and home foreclosures across the country, but times are good in West Texas for sales of guns and ammunition. “In the nine years I’ve been here, we’ve had special orders, now we have waiting lists,” said Gary Hicks, a salesman at the Outdoorsman sporting goods shop in San Angelo. Prices have gone up and, in the case of ammunition, ..., more