Has it started yet?

Near as I can tell, that's been continual since 2008

When did it stop?

I didn't buy anything in the Sandy Hook panic because I only had a 22LR rifle. I missed having 22 ammo then though.

This week however, when I got home from work Wednesday I ordered two stripped lowers, one stripped upper, and 10 223 magazines. I am going to be building my first AR(s) instead of re barreling my savage hunting rifle, looks like.

^ true story!

People are frenzied out. That being said, I posted a thread in this section with an article that showed that Americans bought enough guns on Black Friday alone to arm the entire Marine Corps! So people are still running the race, it's just not a blind panic. And the non-gun guy investors that thought they'd cash in after Sandy Hook got burned hard enough to keep their toes out of the water I think.

Doesn't matter if it to me if it starts again, I'm fully stocked with 2 years of powder, primers and bullets.

To me, the whole panic atmosphere is idiotic, because nothing will happen.

I bought my AR back in August.....talk about timing, before it all hit the fan.

It does not appear to me that outside of a few die hards that anyone is serious about gun control right now. Many are looking at this and thinking it could be them that is helpless against the next Islamic attack. It could well result in gun control being put farther back on the burner than it already is.

Maybe
http://www.thehighroad.org/showthread.php?t=793131

Sportsmansguide still has the M&P sport in stock for $591. If there was going to be a panic buy....they would've been gone by now.

Panics start because of threads like this. The more people who hear about a panic, the more a panic will happen. The market is saturated, any panic that starts is from retailers and folks looking to make money in the resale market.

I was kinda thinking about this last night as I was reloading some shotshells.

I came to the conclusion this was the new norm.

The elite promoters of gun control already know it doesn't work. Their real intent is to disarm the populous and they are tenacious and patient, but pounce hard every time something like this happens.

I agree that, to some extent, the 2008 panic never really ended. As far as some things like AR15s are concerned though, most who had an inkling to buy have already done it so I don't see a price spike likely.

For all of the new shooters who bought .22s and the old timers who stocked up, .22 and pistol powder is still a problem but, eventually, everyone's pantry will fill up and it will sit on the shelves even as the anti's do their thing

In some ways I have come to see the media's anti 2A stance as a good thing. Every time that the idea of gun control is brought up again, a hole new batch of gun owners is born out of the panic and us old timers stock up a little more.

I think everyone has all of the guns and ammo they need now.

If they don't they've been living under a rock for the last 3 years.

Obama and Pelosi made sure of that after Sandy Hook.

In stores around here, yes. ($30 for a used AR mag that would be $7 online, etc) Prices online are great. It's funny because if you order a gun online and then xfer it through a dealer around here they try to guilt you for not paying an extra $400 for it from them direct. Guess they shouldn't offer a transfer service if they're going to whine about it. Anyways, about panic buying I've almost put myself in the hole buying 2 ARs, an AK, and a Browning Hi Power and I have more mags than God. Why? Fear of something stupid like a gun grab or ban or something. But I don't plan on ever getting rid of them though and it's stuff I want so I guess it's just politically justified impulse buying for me

I think there are plenty of $1500 Sandy Hook era AR-15's sitting in closets that they will take an absolute beating on if they try to get rid of them.

I don't have any sympathy for them, serves them right.

They're probably skittish to speculate on stuff like that again.

Guns, I'm OK. Reloading supplies...sort of OK. Loaded ammo...sort of OK.

Could still use more reload and loaded ammo.

Mark

I went to a few gun shops the other day. Several salesmen were already trying to incite panic buying. Annoying.

"Thats the price today......I cant promise you that it will be that tomorrow......"

"This may be your last chance to get one of these......."

"Obammy is banning these soon!"

I got great deals on the stuff I got, ARs are like $450 right now, ironically AKs are now pricier than ARs

GBRAN - "The elite promoters of gun control already know it doesn't work. Their real intent is to disarm the populous and they are tenacious and patient, but pounce hard every time something like this happens. "

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You are 100% correct.

The extreme left "progressives" who seek disarming all us worker peasants never, ever disengage.

L.W.

Sandy Hook was about the worst shooting that happened that could have given the anti's in congress enough ammunition (no pun intended) to nullify 2A and nothing happened. Nothing is going to happen nationally until there's a majority in both houses of Dems and there's a dem president or a turncoat repub.

In the short term, it's all going to happen at the state level. California has been in it deep for a long time now, I don't know what more can be restricted gun wise unless they were going to ban everything except break actions.

California might be one of the few states where "panic buying" mostly consists of above average sales of bolt action rifles and pump shotguns.

Needless to say, I'm not concerned atm, it's too early to tell. The legislatures are going into December vacation and when they return they're not gonna rock the boat during an election year. We'll see what the political climate looks like in August/September when the presidential race settles.

I think there's a little of panic going on. Online ammo prices creeped up a little. Stripped lowers also a little higher on a couple of sites. I don't think it will be as bad as '08-'09 yet but there's 2016.

Personally, I've picked up a case of 5.56 to be safe.

ColoradoShooter77 said:

I think there are plenty of $1500 Sandy Hook era AR-15's sitting in closets that they will take an absolute beating on if they try to get rid of them.

I don't have any sympathy for them, serves them right.

They're probably skittish to speculate on stuff like that again.

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Why the attitude?

Did you not want them to have an AR?

They had the right to buy those guns at anytime they chose...they paid for them, you didn't.

Are you pissed that you had not bought one earlier and the price went up...if so, that was on you.