AR-15 Rifle Sells Briskly as Americans Anticipate New Restrictions
Gun control chatter is a big marketing boon
Americans are apparently so eager to get their hands on the type of gun used in Friday's elementary school massacre that stores can't stock them fast enough.
ABC News talked to gun store owners in Nevada, California, and other areas and all of them reported selling out of the Bushmaster AR-15, the civilian version of a military gun that Adam Lanza used to kill his mother 26 others at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
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