Alan Ougel, store director for Academy Sporting Good Store, said his store sold nearly 60 guns within three hours.
“It was really a panic there for a little while,” he said, adding that on an “outstanding day” during Christmas season, his store might sell that many guns during an entire day.
Sept. 1 (Bloomberg) -- About 24,000 National Guard members will be in Louisiana and Mississippi by the end of the week to combat looting and quell gunfire that disrupted the rescue of survivors of Hurricane Katrina.
U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said today at a news conference that 1,400 will go to New Orleans daily for the next three days, expanding a force of 3,000 that's trying to maintain order in a city flooded and left without power by the storm three days ago.
Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco said National Guardsmen from Arkansas were prepared to use deadly force as they try to restore order in New Orleans, the Times-Picayune reported.
Blanco said at a news conference today that the guardsmen ``know how to shoot to kill ... and I expect they will
The police are really trying to keep everything quiet so the people do not panic. The news will start reporting it by tomorrow though I bet.