After a weekend of record gun sales, metro gun dealers said Monday that gun purchases dropped dramatically on the first day the Brady law required criminal background checks for all gun buyers.

"Gun sales? Today?" Harry Clark, owner of Fred's Gun and Tackle Shop in Lilburn asked. Over the weekend, buyers desperate to acquire handguns before Brady took effect Monday depleted Clark's firearms stock. "Now everybody's looking at rifles and shotguns," he said.

People buying rifles and shotguns are not subject to criminal background checks required for those buying handguns.