TACOMA, Wash. -- Gun sales and the number of applications for concealed weapons permits are reaching high numbers in the last several weeks as a political wave of change is on the way.

Gun buyers and collectors worry that newly elected democratic president Barack Obama, teamed with a democratically controlled congress, will mean tighter restrictions and even bans on many types of firearms.

This is not simply a local phenomenon, it's happening around the country.

Owners of a small Tacoma gun store said in the last two weeks, they've seen an increase in sales of nearly 300-percent.

The increase is so great, Dan Davies of Mary’s Pistols, said they can barely keep up with the demand.

Davies also said buyers are looking for they believe may not be on the market much longer.

“Anything high cap, anything paramilitary style, anything that was banned,” Davies said.

Those guns that a lot of the buyers are looking for are the same guns banned during the Clinton administration.

That ban expired under George Bush and gun buyers are afraid the new administration will bring it back.

“They feel like they want to get theirs now. Thirty-round glock mags for.9mm pistols, they’re $35, during the ban years they were like $100. They fear that it's going to happen again,” Davies said.

Already the Washington State Patrol has seen an increase in concealed weapon permit requests of more than 40-percent.