The Wall Street Journal reports hundreds of flourishing gun fairs have sprung up around Iraq since the fall of Saddam. Under Saddam, Iraqis needed to go through strict background checks by the secret police before they could obtain a gun license. Now anyone who has money can buy a gun. At one market in a Shiite area of Baghdad, an oil company worker told The Wall Street Journal, “People are buying weapons to kill U.S. soldiers if they don’t leave Iraq.”