'We normally sell two a day, today we are selling up to 15 an hour'. -Gun shops

Jay Wallace, the owner of Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna, Georgia, as reported a boom in sales of AR 15s - the semiautomatic weapons used in the Orlando massacre - since Sunday

Sales of high-powered automatic weapons have soared days after the deadliest mass shooting in modern United States history where Omar Mateen use one to kill 49 people in a gay nightclub.

One Georgia gun shop has reported a boom in sales of AR 15s - the semi-automatic weapons used in the Orlando massacre - since Sunday. Within three hours Monday, 35 AR-15s were sold, around 10 guns an
hour. Typically, the store sells just two per day.

The AR-15 assault rifle (file picture) is the same type used in the 2012 Sandy Hook elementary school massacre, the 2012 movie-theater shooting in Aurora, Colorado which killed 12

Meanwhile, a Pennsylvanian gun dealer says he has already sold around 15,000 semi-automatic rifles on his website since the tragedy. 

Jay Wallace, the owner of Adventure Outdoors in Smyrna, Georgia, told Pix 11 that he had seen many customers rushing to buy the weapons on his website in the past few days out of fear that the weapons could be banned

'There's one (type of customer) that's buying them for an investment and the other one is the person that's buying them because they're afraid they won't be available; they're afraid the government is going to take them away,' Wallace said.

But he insists that anyone intent on carrying out an act of terrorism will find a way - whether the guns are available or not.

'If we want to try and get into a terrorist mind, I think they go by their religious beliefs and I don't think the religious beliefs say kill people with a rifle,' he told the network.

'It just says 'kill people.' And if they don't kill people with a rifle, they'll kill them some other way and you won't be any less dead.'

A customer in his store, Deborah Tuff, said that she was buying an AR-15 so she was prepared in case of a future mass shooting.

While Army veteran Mike Barnell said he was stocking up on three of the weapons, which cost between $500 and $3,000, as he was concerned that the price would increase with the talk of gun control.

Gun dealer Tom Engle, who owns Hunters Warehouse in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, said that he had seen between 13,000 and 15,000 sales of high powered automatic weapons since Sunday.

Source: Dailymail