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What's taking place is not so much a "groundswell of support" as a very pronounced hardening of positions on both sides of the issue -- in other words, POLARIZATION. People who were either uninterested or on the fence before are getting interested and getting off the fence. Yes, there are some who are clambering for more gun control laws. And then there are all the people who are suddenly buying all the guns and all the ammo because they are waking up to the fact that the police AREN'T able to protect us, and that if they don't buy that gun today they may not be allowed to buy it in two or three or six months from now.
I visited the largest gun store in my state today. They had almost no handgun ammo at all: some in .38 Special, a decent supply in .44 magnum and .45 Colt, some .40 S&W, nothing at all in .45 Auto, 9mm or .38 Super. Very few handguns anywhere in the store -- usually the display cases are stacked four to six deep with every model in every make. NO handgun powder, and exactly three (3) 1-pound bottles of rifle powder (one each of three different powders). NO handgun OR rifle primers. NO handgun bullets in 9mm, .38 Special, .357 magnum, .44 or .45 flavors. They had a lot of bags of 45-grain .22 caliber rifle bullets, and a few bags of 95-grain FMJ bullets for .380 ACP. That was it. And no rimfire ammo at all, of any make, weight, or velocity.
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