This, according to Pete Brownell, CEO of Brownell's.

I saw the report on one of the national evening news programs and then found the cite a bit later. Apparently he was trying to explain their online ordering problems to some of the fine folks over at ARFCOM.

In any case - that is one hell of a lot of magazines - AND - the word is getting into the mainstream press. If the stats for firearm sales indicates a similar pattern, the message to the politicos could not be any clearer.