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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Kyle Harrison has worked at Top Gun in Houston for 25 years.
As he looked at the store’s busy ammunition shelves, he told ABC13, “(Customers are buying) everything. They’re buying firearms and ammunition and accessories. We’re selling some training and literally everything.”
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Mark, a customer who brought his mom to shoot her brand new handgun at the range, left with five boxes of ammunition. It’s the maximum Top Gun allows customers to buy these days. Mark didn’t want to offer his last name. He says his ammunition was to replace what he shot at the range, but other buyers he said were “panicked… ammo is one of those commodities that everyone rushes to the store thinking you’re not going to be able to have ever again.”
Dispelling the rumor, Top Gun’s Harrison said his warehouse is “well-stocked. We’ve been in business 25 years. We’ve gone through several, several rounds of panic buying unfortunately.”
By federal law, the U.S. government does not track the number of guns sold, but it does track the number of background checks for buyers.
Those federal background checks for gun sales in Texas were up 92 percent over the last month, according to FBI data released April 1. Texas saw 274,211 background checks in March compared to 142,928 in February.