MagnumDweeb
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Maybe I'm just being just being silly but has anyone else noticed how it seems that guns are getting more expensive, like in the past three months they've jumped at least 20%. I'm looking at it from a local scene and looking at gunbroker, budsgunshop, gunsamerica, auctionarms, (I'm a deal hunter). I'm really regretting not getting that used Glock 29 when I could have got it for 385
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I realize the Heller decision might be helping the prices rise, not to forget the price of gas but I'm getting the feeling there is a baseless rise in gun prices.
A buddy of mine works at a gun shop that I favroably call the "Overpriced But Convenient Gun Range", ammo prices are high and luckily they don't charge for the bullets you bring in if you buy a box of theirs (14.99 for a box of 9mm 50rds), and he let me in on the skinny. Basically the shop is doing almost nothing in gun sales except for the occassional used gun that happens to be high end. He's had his hours cut to twenty-five from thirty-five (even though he's one of the top sellers, second in line to the best, and there are ten sellesr), everyone else has also had there hours cut too. He's has had more than a few days where he doesn't sell a single gun when he used to sell four or five a day everyday he went to work even on Sundays. He told me the shop is raising its prices hoping to cover its loses, of course I only laughed at that logic and we talked at length about supply and demand.
The shop doesn't have the 'specials' it used to, the S&W 642 at 389.99 and Taurus Ultra-Lite at 289.99, and Kel-Tec 259.99, even though they are still heavily stocked in the guns and they aren't moving. Oh and the ammo sales he told me has dropped by nearly half and the gun sales have dropped by more than two thirds (the managements numbers) in the last two months.
Maybe I'm being ridiculous but wouldn't a slowdown in the economy and the frightenning rise in ammo prices mean "hey if we want to sell guns, even at a reduced profit, we better lower our prices some" rather than "hey we are not selling as many guns as we were, we are nearing towards the red, lets hock those prices up even though we aren't the only game in town". Mind you other stores have raised their prices but nowhere nearly as harshly.
.I realize the Heller decision might be helping the prices rise, not to forget the price of gas but I'm getting the feeling there is a baseless rise in gun prices.
A buddy of mine works at a gun shop that I favroably call the "Overpriced But Convenient Gun Range", ammo prices are high and luckily they don't charge for the bullets you bring in if you buy a box of theirs (14.99 for a box of 9mm 50rds), and he let me in on the skinny. Basically the shop is doing almost nothing in gun sales except for the occassional used gun that happens to be high end. He's had his hours cut to twenty-five from thirty-five (even though he's one of the top sellers, second in line to the best, and there are ten sellesr), everyone else has also had there hours cut too. He's has had more than a few days where he doesn't sell a single gun when he used to sell four or five a day everyday he went to work even on Sundays. He told me the shop is raising its prices hoping to cover its loses, of course I only laughed at that logic and we talked at length about supply and demand.
The shop doesn't have the 'specials' it used to, the S&W 642 at 389.99 and Taurus Ultra-Lite at 289.99, and Kel-Tec 259.99, even though they are still heavily stocked in the guns and they aren't moving. Oh and the ammo sales he told me has dropped by nearly half and the gun sales have dropped by more than two thirds (the managements numbers) in the last two months.
Maybe I'm being ridiculous but wouldn't a slowdown in the economy and the frightenning rise in ammo prices mean "hey if we want to sell guns, even at a reduced profit, we better lower our prices some" rather than "hey we are not selling as many guns as we were, we are nearing towards the red, lets hock those prices up even though we aren't the only game in town". Mind you other stores have raised their prices but nowhere nearly as harshly.
