Mike Rosteck, owner of Mr. Guns in Cedar Falls, Iowa, believes “Mr. Obama is the greatest gun salesman this country has ever seen.”

gunshopemptySince the president announced plans to impose executive action on gun control, sales have been booming, Rosteck said, up 52 percent from last year, the Courier reports.

“Last year, they were up too,” he said. “It doesn’t take a genius to figure it out. The insecurities we get from the federal government, people can’t take it.”

Rosteck offers concealed carry classes at his new 7,000 square foot facility twice a month, and classes are typically sold out. The classes are required to obtain a concealed carry permit, he said, and about half of the attendees are women, according to the news site.

“Some people just want to keep it at home,” he said of gun buyers purchasing handguns, one of Mr. Guns’ biggest sellers. “Anything from a carry gun to a target gun.”

Scott Wilms, proprietor of Midwest Guns & Ammo in Waterloo, also told the Courier “gun and ammo sales have been up quite a bit lately,” though he cited several reasons for the trend.

“The people you talk to, you get a variety of answers,” he said. “Some don’t care about the political situation. Some are afraid they won’t be available.”

More and more buyers – “a variety of young to old” – are purchasing weapons repeatedly mentioned by the media, Davis Firearms Specialists owner Darrin Davis said.

“It’s been increasing, especially in handguns and AR15-style rifles – the ones the media keeps calling the assault (rifle),” he said.

In Muskegon, Michigan, Gary Foster told the Capital News Service gun sales have increased to the point that he can’t even keep any in stock.

“It’s frustrating not to have any inventory,” he said. “It’s a great thing as a business to sell everything you have but then you have nothing to sell for three weeks. So did you really win?”

Foster, owner of Gary’s Guns, said supply simply cannot keep up with demand.

“If we order 100 AR15s, we might see 20, so then we’re standing there saying sorry to 80 people,” he said.

Brian Harrison, manager of Leitz Sports Center in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, told the News Service he’s also witnessed a significant sales increase since Obama announced gun control actions.

“We have seen an uptick in gun sales, we are running into shortages at the distributor level for product,” he said. “Typically we wouldn’t be as busy this time of year as we are. It seems like anytime Washington starts talking about gun control, sales go up.”

Peter Rayl, who owns Gunworks in Almont, said he believes the gun sales are driven by both terrorist attacks such as the one in San Bernardino in December, as well as talk about gun control.

“We saw a spike after the California shooting,” he said. “Anytime anything is threatened, whether it’s magazines or anything, people run out and buy.”

And they’re not just buying guns.

Forbes reported stocks of gun makers also surged as Obama announced his executive orders on gun control in early January.

From Forbes, Jan. 5:

Shares of Sturm, Ruger & Co jumped 6.8% in Tuesday trading, hitting their highest level in a full year. The 164-year-old Smith & Wesson, meanwhile, saw its stock surge more than 12% and reach its highest price since July of 2007. Tied to Smith & Wesson’s spike is the fact that the company announced on Monday that it will record higher-than-expected third quarter and full-year per-share-profit and net sales.

Third quarter profit, the gun maker said, is now expected to come in somewhere between 39 and 41 cents per share, up from prior forecasts of 27 to 29 cents per share. Third quarter net sales are now projected to arrive somewhere between $175,000 and $180,000, up from previous guidance of $150,000 to $155,000. On a full-year basis, Smith & Wesson is now projecting earnings of $1.36 to $1.41 per share, up from prior calls for earnings between $1.26 and $1.31 per share. The full-year net sales forecast, meanwhile, has been bumped up to a range of $650,000 to $660,000 from a range of $625,000 to $635,000.