“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”

The World was spurred by the horrific elementary school shooting in The United States. Twenty children and six adults were killed when a man carried a military-style rifle and stormed the Sandy Hook Elementary school in Newtown, Conn. President Barack Obama vowed to send Congress new policy proposals today for reducing gun violence by January. He acknowledged that Friday’s deadly shooting had been “a wake-up call for all of us.”  And while the whole world is watching at President Barack Obama recently Smith & Wesson (Full investor presentation) and Sturm, Ruger’s (CHART) made there yearly turnover figures public. (interesting Obama vs Romney and Obama vs McCain chart). It shows you a sudden powerful upward movement in Sales, a surge so to say. Also please keep in mind that one can only wonder what the market cap. of Kalashnikov is, the maker of the world’s most popular rifle. (ИЖМАШ) And if the surge in revenues wasn’t enough there is also and ever-increasing rate of production (in units) and the consistently more and more searched in Google word “Bulk Ammo”. According to Google Trends, internet users are skipping just plain old simple “ammo” as a search query, and in a tried and true American tradition, confirm that size matters. The size of the ammo order that is, as can be confirmed by the following chart showing queries for “bulk ammo" (CHART)….Looks like the world is indeed a more dangerous ‘armed’ place… Click here for The SIPRI Top 100 list of the world’s 100 largest arms-producing and military services companies (excluding Chinese companies), ranked by their arms sales in 2010 

Interested? Tonight’s course: The Liberation War, How does it work and where does the money and weapons come from. Watch the Brooklyn connection HERE