PRAIRIEVILLE - After last weekend's tax-free holiday, some gun stores are still seeing crowds, and owners said that recent national violence could also be fueling sales.

After major price cuts over the weekend, some gun stores said customers have continued to come back over the last week.

“We had a tax-free weekend last weekend. Yes, it's always busy there. It's always busy afterwards,” CJ Hebert, owner of Hebert Guns in Prairieville, said.

He also said, however, that recent national violence could also be driving sales.

“People get scared. We saw it when we had the ski mask rapist, and we had a lot of sales sent to ladies,” Hebert said.

He said that when conversations about violence spike, so does demand for firearms, as people buy out of fear. He remembered seeing the same trend in

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