Obama's going to restrict arms possession regulations for law-abiding Americans?

Almost immediately after Barack Obama won the 2008 presidential election on the first Saturday of November, many licensed retail weapons dealers started to experience surge in sales of guns to private individuals across the United States. During the first week of November, when Obama's victory was announced, the FBI received more than 374,000 requests for background checks on gun purchasers (almost 49 % increase over the same period in 2007). The overall number of November filings for background checks required to buy a gun, hit their historical maximum and set new record since the time of launching the FBI national background check program - just in three weeks following the end of the election a total of 1,529,635 National Instant Criminal Background Checks were performed. That's a 41.6 % increase over November 2007 when the Federal Investigations Agency performed just over 1 million background checks on arms buyers.The arms sales are on the rise because individual buyers and sellers alike seem to be concerned about Obama's intentions to make strong moves towards restriction of private arms ownership and circulation in the USA. Another dealer from Southeast Missouri told that since the election outcome was announced, he had experienced a whopping 500 percent increase in sales of assault rifles only. Gun-shop owners and managers throughout South Mississippi reported similar trends either.News by police from the states too confirm the concerns are present everywhere. Say, Oregon State Police officials reported that on Black Friday they processed the unusually high number of 2,198 pre-purchase background checks on citizens. The Illinois State Police conducted 24,076 background checks for gun purchases in November, 39 percent more than the 17,363 during last year's November. According to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement starting October the Department performed almost double the number of criminal history checks over the same period of year 2007. Supposingly the number of online background check requests will rise during the next year too.The issue of restricting weapon ownership still remains rather contradictory. From one hand, national FBI background check has rarely prevented a person from acquiring a permit to buy a gun, while from the other hand, criminals hardly ever go to a licensed firearms dealer to buy weapons. I.e., arms purchaser background check may not be expected to cover social groups outside law abiding citizens.