I am just waiting. In a few months those that are first time buyers are going to sell back either AR's and hand guns due to more important means like auto repair, A/C unit failure or a emergency that came up. I'll be there paying much less than new. Pretty much they are new.
The gun buying panic (so far)
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Most stores are not limiting how many people are inside at a time. The let in as many that exits. Seems counter productive forcing everyone to stand in line with each other rather then dispersing in the store.
Right. Hoards of people standing right next to each other is massive longs lines to go into a store to give them money for sh*t the store may or may not have
Why is it OK to stand bunched up like sheep going to slaughter but not go in, buy and leave keeping your distance IN the store
Right. Hoards of people standing right next to each other is massive longs lines to go into a store to give them money for sh*t the store may or may not have
Why is it OK to stand bunched up like sheep going to slaughter but not go in, buy and leave keeping your distance IN the store
It is what always happens - all the panic buyers will eventually sell what they overpaid for. They will list it for what they paid or more, and surely and slowly will the price come down as they complain about it all.
I also find it funny some 2a people thing that these people panic buying that are not gun people, and typical favor anti 2a laws will somehow throw away their political beliefs. Last time this happened - the vast majority of these "new" owners never even fired their newly purchased panic buys and reverted right back into being anti 2a. 98% of these people are not going to magically come around, so don't get your hopes up.
I also find it funny some 2a people thing that these people panic buying that are not gun people, and typical favor anti 2a laws will somehow throw away their political beliefs. Last time this happened - the vast majority of these "new" owners never even fired their newly purchased panic buys and reverted right back into being anti 2a. 98% of these people are not going to magically come around, so don't get your hopes up.
I don’t understand letting only a certain number of people in at a time. Doesn’t seem like anyone inside the stores are distancing themselves, I can’t imagine the people outside are doing any better with it. I’ll just stay away for now until things calm down. I don’t even like going to the grocery store because people can’t distance themselves and some of the grocery stores have started this policy also.
Stats say a large percentage of the firearms sales are to first-time-buyers.
Maybe these are liberals listening to Pedo Joe and buying shotguns to run out on their balcony and fire two rounds into the air to thwart a Corona attack.
https://youtu.be/CrzyRXSxuAg
Maybe these are liberals listening to Pedo Joe and buying shotguns to run out on their balcony and fire two rounds into the air to thwart a Corona attack.
https://youtu.be/CrzyRXSxuAg
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That may actually be right. At Scottsdale Gun Club, I watched a young couple buy their first guns, a matched pair of Mossberg Shockwaves. I can only speculate they chose cut-down shotguns because (1) you don't have to aim -- the shot spreads out and obliterates everything within 180 degrees, (2) just the sound of pumping those shotguns will send miscreants running, and (3) Pedo Joe said so.
To the salesman's credit, he talked them into 20 gauge instead of 12 gauge.
That may actually be right. At Scottsdale Gun Club, I watched a young couple buy their first guns, a matched pair of Mossberg Shockwaves. I can only speculate they chose cut-down shotguns because (1) you don't have to aim -- the shot spreads out and obliterates everything within 180 degrees, (2) just the sound of pumping those shotguns will send miscreants running, and (3) Pedo Joe said so.
To the salesman's credit, he talked them into 20 gauge instead of 12 gauge.
for sure most prices have gone up a tad, some big time, but most not much, but there is a difference as i have a lot of ads from previous weeks emails. problem is big suppliers are shutting down, for a while, so vendors won't be getting what they need from a few, heard davidsons is still shipping big time, so................. might look a their website and see if they have what you want and find a vendor to order it uip.
happy;monday. Rj
happy;monday. Rj
I have a friend who having never owned a firearm just went out and bought a Saiga 12ga, an AR10 and a HK45. While all great guns not necessarily great beginner guns. He said he was worried about what is happening in the world and wanted to protect his family.
badumBUMxerts1191 said:
As to NICS checks, they are useful as a proxy to show a trend, but not actual numbers.
There are no records for private transaction which are not subject to checks. Many people probably went to their gun-owning friends, and said "You got something you could sell me?" I didn't do that this time around, but I did it during the Sandy Hook panic buying. Presumably there were many such purchases this time around. While we don't have stats on private sales (hallelujah!), presumably private sales in March 2020 were greater than in March 2019, likely at the same rate of increase as NICS purchases.
NICS checks also serve as a proxy for counting new gun owners (which is what we all want), but again, it is not 100% accurate. There are people who already own guns, but who, in a panic, get motivated and decide that by golly they really should get that double-barrel Biden Special they had been thinking about.
NICS checks do not record purchases by gun owners who have CCW permits, but for that reason, NICS checks are a good way to refute the Bloombergian assertion that "those are just gun nuts adding to their arsenals." Some probably are, but most serious arsenal accumulators have permits.
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