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Updated: 12/28/2012 08:00:01AM
Local gun sales, classes jump
SUN PHOTO BY ELAINE ALLEN-EMRICH, eallen@sun-herald.com
Eric Graham, pawnbroker at Paradise Jewelry & Pawn in North Port, holds a shotgun for sale at the store Thursday. There has been a demand for high-power weapons at the store following the Sandy Hook school shooting in Connecticut. People fear assault weapons will be banned, Graham said.
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Two days after the Sandy Hook school shooting in Newtown, Conn., people flocked to a North Port pawn shop to buy the same guns used in the massacre.
Kelly Watkins, owner of Paradise Jewelry & Pawn in North Port, also saw a spike in sales of people buying high-power weapons and ammunition.
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