Arbil Gun Bazaar is no longer in demand

ARBIL, IRAQ - AUGUST 20: A man holds a gun at the Arbil Gun Bazaar in Kasnazan near the Arbil, Iraq on August 20, 2014. Dealers say that sales of weapons at the market have slowed ever since the United States vowed to help Kurdish Peshmerga forces defend the largely autonomous region of northern Iraq from Islamic State militants. Before the U.S. airstrikes, there was panic-buying at the gun bazaar. Kurdish men snapped up any weapons on offer, fearing the Islamic State militants would roll into Arbil. Since the U.S. began conducting airstrikes on Aug. 8 against militants of the Islamic State group, gun sales at the bazaar have flattened, and the dealers have cut their prices by a third or even a half. (Photo by Ahmet Izgi/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)