Barack Obama—who most recently shocked everyone (even himself) with a Nobel Peace Prize win—is making some gun owners in Washington a little nervous.

Why? According to The Forest Grove News-Times, sales of firearms have spiked in the area because they are simply unsure on how the administration will handle gun control. The paper says that the Tri-County Gun Club has seen a surge of 70 new members per month through most of 2009.

“People are doing two things: One, they’re personally stockpiling. The other is, a little hoarding – thinking they can make a buck,” the club owner told the newspaper.

And this isn’t something unique to the Northwest. Reports of the new president’s influence on firearm purchases began to surface at the start of the new year. One outdoor news service even went as far as declaring Obama the “Gun Salesman of the Year”.