Firearm Prices Going Lower

I gots what I want/need so panic on.

Price drop on isle 1 ? yeah maybe but $25.-50.00 ain't enough to tempt me to open the wallet.

Bet the prices stop falling today.

Last nights tragic terror attack in Orlando will bring on a new panic.

Hope we can stop the lefts legislation push this time.

I already have all the Glocks and ARs I'll ever need.

The only things I'm seriously considering are a 1911 and bolt action .243.

No panic buying here

If your worried about another mass casualty event triggering another panic, it just happened last night in Orlando.

Well, I guess we will find out sooner rather than later.

No panic. No banic. No bans. Just another you-know-which religion terror attack.

AlfonsDeWolf/Plan2Live: That was a modest "Dream List" for Obama, calculated to be within his acceptable limits of damaging political reactions. He seems to have been aware of the more careless comments which helped cost Al Gore an election.
Whether Hillary 'takes the bait' or not, could that help determine her success in November?

Two years ago our King even banned all Saiga imports from Russia, which were designed as sporterized guns. His pretext/excuse was supposedly to hurt Russian business, because of their mass intervention in Ukraine. The majority of Americans were totally unaware, but it was clear proof that only one "bite" at a time accumulates the damage to our freedoms. The total gun control strategy of the hard-core far left is to wait fifty years, if necessary. Their goals are always very long-term.

The baffling, common assumption made by so many people that they have until the November election to make up their minds about what to buy will soon again shape their perspectives.

After this recent mass shooting and with the imminent election, I fear firearms prices will NOT be going lower for much longer.

Buy 'em while you can, boys. And that goes doubly for ammo. I fear we're on the edge of the worst gun and ammo buying panic in human history.

Some say they have all the ARs they need, I guess I am in that category also. But I don't have all my family needs.

Bought a stripped lower yesterday, ironically a Crusader from Spikes, and will soon build another rifle for myself with it. However, the other lowers I am buying are more for the next generations than for my use. I will build them out as I have the funds and time. Their intended purpose is for the dozen or so younger folks in my family to have when I pass, or feel it's time to distribute them. Right now I have enough that the immediate heirs will each get one quality semi-automatic sporting rifle and one good quality pistol, along with ammo and plenty of magazines for each.

Getting to the point that some yet to be conceived descendants are being covered.

It ain't all about me, but future generations now.




Hoping for the best, preparing for the worst.

I already have all the Glocks and ARs I'll ever need.

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Me too, I have one AR and zero Glocks.

As someone else pointed out, i think nearly everyone that wants a black rifle, already has one, and combined with the worsening economy and flush inventories, I don't think we're going to see anything like what we have before.

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I still want a "black rifle" and don't have one - - but I do acknowledge that I seem to be in a shrinking minority.

Still, I do agree; so many guns have been sold over the last few years that it's hard to imagine people who need to also buy cars, washing machines, clothing and the like are going to be able continue spending on guns at the same level.

Just bought two complete AR uppers (piston operated) for $269 each at Mills Farm Fleet......made by Adams Arms, Brownells lists them at nearly $600 each.

Not quite the "buyer's market" people seem to think. Went to a gun show yesterday (before the Orlando shooting) and prices were pretty unreasonable on most things, even used.

OcelotZ3 said:

Not quite the "buyer's market" people seem to think. Went to a gun show yesterday (before the Orlando shooting) and prices were pretty unreasonable on most things, even used.

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What were you looking at? I'm sure we can locate good prices for you online...and certainly could have found great prices a couple days ago

It's premature to call this a trend, but I went to a gun auction today. The selling price of most of the guns and ammo went for what would be considered below current "market value". I was encouraged by it because auctions of the recent past have been nuts! The prices were so good today that my buddy bought 11 guns, 6 pistols and 5 long guns. Lots of fun.

Strangely in my area I noted last week that prices are going up. A local gun/pawn shop that I do a lot of business with has raised their prices. I usually would buy around three guns a year, sometimes four, this year one so far because I got it at a fair price. A FEG PA-63 which I could buy used two years ago for $140-$160 OTD now has a $249 price tag. Revolver prices are up even more.

Even with the events of this weekend I don't look for panic buying just yet simply because I feel the firearns market is is at a "saturation point". Most people have bought what they wanted by now especially after Sandy Hook. I do think firearms sales will experience some type of spike this fall depending on the popularity of Hillary at that time and proposed legislation.

@Plan2Live....thanks for your reply

hdwhit: the Saigas are also "black rifles", and 'normal capacity' SGM mags are known to be as reliable as the Saiga factory Izhmash 10-rd. originals.

The rifles have been described as "a wolf in sheep's clothing", but don't require any conversion.

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New gun sales have been averaging one million a month during the last 8 years under the current POTUS, that's almost 100 million firearms!

While these are admirable numbers for firearms ownership, these numbers cannot be sustained forever. As a result, prices have come down since retailers have to compete in a glutted marketplace with each other as well as with the secondary market.

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This is it......if there was something like 250 million guns in the country when Obama took office and there's been another 100 put into the market place, and I believe while the number of household with guns has risen it hasn't risen dramatically......so the market is saturated.

Buy, baby, buy. January 2017 is the coronation of the queen and SHTF


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With recent events and the coming election, I expect the panic to be back with a vengeance very very soon, unfortunately.

"This is it......if there was something like 250 million guns in the country when Obama took office and there's been another 100 put into the market place, and I believe while the number of household with guns has risen it hasn't risen dramatically......so the market is saturated."

Yep...the rise has been so undramatic that we've set gun sales records for the last 14 months in a row. And those data deal only with the submissions of 4473s for state and national Instant Check Systems, not multiple sales or other transactions. During the Obama Tyranny, AR-15 platform carbines and rifles have become the most common sporting/self-defense firearms in the country.

If you're convinced the trend is over and actual numbers from gummint bureaucrats can't be trusted, there'll be someone interested in buying the "glut" that your collection represents. I've no problem with buying low from you and your compatriots who don't really understand what the numbers represent.

If you think that supply and prices aren't linked and that demand for certain firearms isn't going to increase in the short term, you either don't understand history or choose to ignore it.

People need to begin to understand that the last 8-10 years have been unprecedented in firearms sales in the US. Not only have current demands been supplied, a HUGE, HUGE amount of future demand that became current demand through fear and uncertainty has also been supplied.

Some try to sell the notion that the firearms market is virtually unlimited in the US. That's pure bunkum. Further even when it comes to panics, the American people are getting a touch weary and a touch skeptical.

Because of all the regulations on making, importing and selling guns, the fear associated with additional gun control plus the unsavory nature (to many) of the business (less competition), it has taken far longer for prices to begin dropping back to pre-panic levels.

I see a glut coming. It's going to be interesting to see how gunmakers respond. I suspect one way will be with "new models" that are nothing but existing guns with new barrels, stock/grips, sight, etc. that require little R&D investment.