People are buying up whatever they can, my local store a very big store is wiped out of everything except a couple Uberti single action and a couple high end expensive Ed Brown 1911's, that's all they have even the .22 are all gone, rifle wise a couple lever actions and some bolt hunting rifles left that's it.
Good point. I hadn't really looked at it that way. It's just add-on sales of associated product.
I love my pt92, I'm probably well over 1500 rounds without one single failure of any kind. I still kinda want a beretta just to compare and because it's such a great gun to shoot. My pt92 has an amazing trigger in single action, probably less than 3lbs. SOSS has this beretta on sale.
Yeah. It took a long while (about 15 years) for me to regret selling my PT99, but I sure regret it now.
I figure it this way. Plenty of people who never owned a gun before in their lives are suddenly buying guns. We have seen it before but this time my read is the number of new first time gun owners is astounding. Now while the first time buyers (gun owners) may not be exactly gun savvy they normally have the sense to know when you shoot a gun you clean the gun so along with guns both ammunition and cleaning supplies are also selling well. Purely speculation on my part but sounds logical enough I believe it.
don't hold yer breath..that 'acknowledges' too much..
Maybe this weekend if the weather stays nice I'll ride the bike down. 
Apparently I came into two handguns and was given a shotgun yesterday. My sisters were visiting the wife of our recently deceased uncle. My uncle had an old Remington Model 11 16 Gauge bought new I would guess mid 1930s. Awhile back his wife's dad passed away and his wife's brother took a few long guns but my uncle ended up with two handguns. Nobody wanted to take them so my uncle just put them up. The first appears to be a new in box unfired Auto Ordinance M1911A1 and he was in his 80s when he bought it. Nobody has a clue why. The second gun was in a soft case inside an ammo can. My sister took a few pictures and read me some of the writing and from her full size images I was able to make a few things out, including the 5 digit serial number.
The left side of the slide is the usual Colt name and patent info. The right side is marked Model Of 1911 U.S. Army. The serial range is 588XX and if I read this right the is an original 1911 manufactured around 1913 and pre A1.
This is what my sister sent me:
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Now obviously Colt did not make Army Issue 1911 guns with a rubber Pachmeyer wrap around grip but despite wear the gun should clean up nicely and I'll put walnut diamond grips on it. I think at this point I have a Colt 1911 circa 1913. I do collect the Colt 1911 Series 70 guns but never had an animal like this one. This may be a pre WWI gun if I am reading things right. Time to take a ride down and visit my sister.
Ron
Yeah, the gun had grips and my guess is somewhere in their mom & dad's house are the grips. My guess is that as her dad got older in his 80s if he was shooting the thing it may have bothered his hands so on went the Pachmeyer rubber. Once I get the gun cleaned up I'll know what I have exactly. My sister has a nice WWII Ithaca made 1911 and her husband's uncle gave him the gun, a WWII take home by himself, a Marine. Same sort of deal, he made these funky USMC grips and when my brother-in-law got the gun the original grips were missing. When my sister's husband passed away my sister became owner of a nice collection.
Depends on location. Here in GA I'm still finding decent deals on pistols. Check Armslist to see what they are going for around you.
