Gun control bill inspires spike in gun, magazine sales

Rifles on display at Parro’s Gun Shop in Waterbury. Photo by Jim Welch/VTDiggerWATERBURY — A handful of customers were already waiting in the parking lot when Parro’s Gun Shop opened Monday morning.
This is the way it’s been in recent weeks. The shop’s owner, Henry Parro, estimates that the number of people walking through his door has quadrupled in the last month or so.Parro and other firearms dealers across the state are reporting that gun and high-capacity magazi