Jason_W
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Or if not completely extinct relegated to hard to find, specialty market status.
Given consumer trends, my prediction is that in 30 years, the only types of guns that will be found in average gun shops will be AR type semi auto rifles, inexpensive, synthetic stocked bolt action rifles, and polymer semi-auto handguns.
Everything else will be something that has to be special ordered at great cost or lucked into on the used market.
I also predict that the above guns will only be chambered in the following.
.308 win
.223 Rem/5.56 NATO
7/62x39mm (maybe)
9mm
.40 s&w
.45 ACP
.22 LR
For shotguns, only 12 gauge will be available and even then, most of the market will cater to competition clays games shooters as the AR platform continues to fill the role that was traditionally filled by pump action shotguns.
Given consumer trends, my prediction is that in 30 years, the only types of guns that will be found in average gun shops will be AR type semi auto rifles, inexpensive, synthetic stocked bolt action rifles, and polymer semi-auto handguns.
Everything else will be something that has to be special ordered at great cost or lucked into on the used market.
I also predict that the above guns will only be chambered in the following.
.308 win
.223 Rem/5.56 NATO
7/62x39mm (maybe)
9mm
.40 s&w
.45 ACP
.22 LR
For shotguns, only 12 gauge will be available and even then, most of the market will cater to competition clays games shooters as the AR platform continues to fill the role that was traditionally filled by pump action shotguns.