March 4, 2018
At left, Wes Morosky -- owner of Duke’s Sport Shop, in New Castle, Pa. -- helps Ron Detka as he shops for a rifle on Friday, March 2, 2018, at Morosky's store. He said business has gone up recently, but that’s due to the annual infusion of tax-refund checks. Sales of firearms slowed dramatically when the election of President Donald Trump in 2016 allayed fears of a Democratic crackdown on gun ownership. That trend of fewer sales of guns continues, even with talk of gun control in Congress following the massacre of 17 people at a Florida high school last month. (Keith Srakocic/AP)
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Sales of firearms slowed dramatically after the election of Donald Trump as president in 2016 allayed fears of a Democratic crackdown on gun owners.