GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ) — During the COVID-19 Pandemic, it’s not just toilet paper and face masks flying off the shelves.
In a time of uncertainty and with all non-essential businesses ordered to close, gun stores are seeing big sales.
“People are buying everything and anything they can,” said Kyle Engels is a manager at Gus’s Guns in Green Bay, on WTAQ’s ‘The Morning News with Matt and Earl’. “It’s kind of a fear buying moment.”
Gun stores count as an essential business during Governor Tony Evers’ ‘Safer at Home’ order. Engels says a lot of people coming in are first time buyers, worried about protecting themselves during the pandemic.
“People that are into guns are already ready for something like this,” said Engels. “It’s a lot of new customers. I’ve had a lot of people tell me they don’t even like guns, but this is forcing them to come in and buy one.”
While guns are still available throughout Northeast Wisconsin, the most necessary component: ammo, is in short supply.
