Zombies and Gun Sales: Is there a connection?

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There seems to be many people, at least in America, who are preparing for a zombie apocalypse.  Specifically, there are enough incidence of gun sales noticeably attributed to zombies.  Can you blame them?

Read the news excerpt below:

Pittsburgh can be said to be the birth place of the zombie phenomenon thanks to George Romero’s “Night of the living Dead,” which came out in 1968.

Since that film, there have been countless movies, books, comics, and TV shows surrounding the undead, and their popularity has increased exponentially in the last few years. As zombie presence rises in pop culture, real life gun sales are rising as well, and research shows the two are related.

Are The Rise Of Zombies Causing Rising Gun Sales? « CBS Pittsburgh