Buoyant gun industry sees enemies everywhere

[SecularMotion]

The gun industry is struggling with good times.

Firearm sales are soaring. Gun company stocks are way up, despite a market-wide January slump.

But as gun makers, wholesalers, and retailers gather in Las Vegas for their annual industry convention, leading executives are striving to accentuate the negative.

"Our industry is being blamed and attacked and pilloried unfairly by politicians, media, and agenda-driven social engineers," Steve Sanetti, president of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), the main gun business trade group, said Tuesday night in his annual "state of the industry" address to a large and supportive audience.

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