CBS Evening News - 1999-12-27
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[0:00] [Music]
[0:00] Only at Carl's Jr. Madonna's first movie
[0:02] since Avita in an ET World exclusive.
[0:07] A year in gun rush. The FBI reports a
[0:10] big jump in gun sales amid fears of
[0:12] terror and Y2K meltdown. Law enforcement
[0:16] is taking no chances, but an arrest at
[0:18] the US border turns out to be a false
[0:21] alarm. As the final returns come in, it
[0:23] looks like a good Christmas for
[0:25] retailers. and Mley Safer takes you back
[0:28] to the turn of another millennium a
[0:30] thousand years
[0:33] [Music]
[0:34] ago. This is the CBS Evening News with
[0:39] Dan
[0:43] Rather. Good evening. Dan is off
[0:45] tonight. I'm Bob Schaper. Well, the end
[0:47] of the year is bringing a big increase
[0:49] in, of all things, gun sales, and it's
[0:51] apparently being sparked, at least in
[0:53] part, by fear that the coming of the new
[0:56] year will bring a new wave of violence.
[0:58] CBS News correspondent Diana Ole has our
[1:01] report.
[1:03] Sharon Shand had never owned or fired a
[1:05] gun.
[1:08] Okay. Until today. I just wanted to be
[1:12] prepared in case, you know, anything
[1:13] happens for Y2K.
[1:15] just to have an ounce of prevention, you
[1:17] know. So, this mother of a baby boy
[1:19] asked her father for an old family
[1:21] shotgun and brought it to this Virginia
[1:23] gun shop for a lesson. We wanted it for
[1:25] protection. So, that's really all that
[1:27] we need it for. Sharon is not alone. FBI
[1:30] statistics show mandatory gun background
[1:32] checks this month are up 20% from last
[1:35] December. And last Thursday set the
[1:37] record, 67,000 checks in one day. It's
[1:41] been an inordinate amount of sales and
[1:44] the um home defense shotguns
[1:48] is been very very busy. Gun dealer
[1:51] Hayward Long has so