Sales of guns and ammo have ramped up dramatically in California following last month's Connecticut school shooting and subsequent calls for tightened gun-control measures.

Manufacturers and retailers say they're scrambling to keep up with the demand.

"The supply chain is broken," said Jeff Foutz, a salesman with the Bain and Davis Gun Shop in San Gabriel. "First off, you had many of the manufacturers shutting down for a couple weeks at Christmas to do their maintenance. Then the Connecticut tragedy happened and right away you had 20 politicians in front the cameras trying to make their political bases happy."

The demand for guns and ammunition is sure to increase even more in the wake of gun-control legislation introduced Thursday by U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. Feinstein wrote the original assault weapons ban, which expired in 2004 when Congress refused to renew it under pressure from the National Rifle Association.

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