InTouch with Southern Kentucky August 2020 | Page 12

IN TOUCH
Business
STEVE CORNELIUS I CJ
T. J. Hall displays just a small portion of the many guns sold at the family-owned Hall’s Pawn Shop, in
Somerset, Ky. The Hall family business has seen a rise in gun sales over the past few months.
Gun sales shooting upwards
BY CHRISTOPHER HARRIS
COMMONWEALTH JOURNAL
You could say that currently, gun
sales are experiencing a boom
market.
All around the country, sales
of firearms are going up -- and
Pulaski County is no exception. Small
Arms Analytics and Forecasting (SAAF)
has shown that more than 2,387,000 guns
were sold nationwide in June of this year,
an increase of around 145 percent from the
previous year, according to Fox Business.
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