Website: Obama is 'greatest gun salesman' in U.S.

Firearms sales and concealed handgun permit applications have hit all-time highs since President Obama's election, reports a website that backs gun rights.

"President Obama's perceived hostility towards gun owners has been one of the key factors behind the multi-year financial boom the firearms industry continues to enjoy," notes Ammo.net.

The headline of the post is "the greatest gun salesman in America: President Barack Obama."

The website also questions the National Rifle Association and other Second Amendment groups, citing "massive increases in sales by firearm & ammunition makers, billions more in federal and state tax collections related to guns & ammo, increased membership in the NRA, and hundreds of thousands of new Americans carrying concealed handguns."

"Therefore," asks Ammo.com, "should the firearms industry support President Obama for a second term or not?"

The site quotes NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre as saying at this month's Conservative Political Action Conference:

"Lip service to gun owners is just part of a massive Obama conspiracy to deceive voters and hide his true intentions to destroy the Second Amendment during his second term.

We see the president's strategy crystal clear: Get re-elected and, with no more elections to worry about, get busy dismantling and destroying our firearms' freedom, erase the Second Amendment from the Bill of Rights and excise it from the U.S. Constitution. ...

When the sun goes down on election day Barack Obama will have America's gun owners to thank for his defeat."

Joshua Green -- writing in Bloomberg/Business Week, and who flagged us to this item -- notes that "despite the fact that Obama hasn't made the slightest feint toward regulating guns, firearms enthusiasts have whipped themselves into a paranoid frenzy, convinced that this is all just part of some elaborate conspiracy."