Are there any buyers left for another panic?

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Even excluding older people who were Able to plan ahead (but failed to use initiative), anybody with 21 candles on their birthday cake today, and both some cash and the desire for a gun can create a potential swell of demand, just waiting for a psychological undersea earthquake.

Imagine how many more twenty one year olds will be with us by late November, 2016. Many of these won't learn from recent history.
So many allow themselves to be enslaved by their smart phones, and seldom read the news.
 
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Let the 'right' politician say the 'wrong' thing at the 'wrong' time, and it could start again. Things were 'reasonably' stable before SH, then it went into overdrive within days after that. It could happen again given the right circumstances.
 
kwguy said:
Let the 'right' politician say the 'wrong' thing at the 'wrong' time, and it could start again. Things were 'reasonably' stable before SH, then it went into overdrive within days after that. It could happen again given the right circumstances.
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Tis indeed a fragile situation. I was out to lunch with co-workers when Sandy Hook wend down and recall thinking Oh No. All it takes is a mass tragedy involving guns and here we go again. Additionally, going over two years this recovery has been a slow one. This makes it real difficult for the new shooters and those on a tight budget to stock up. Anyway, yeah, a very fragile system.

Ron
 
I thought I just saw where this last Christmas season was another gun sale record breaker as far as the background checks indicated.
I still can't find a decent used gun for a price I'm willing to pay so given those two indicators I'm calling gun sales in the US still healthy.
 
All it takes is a negative weather forecast, and we know how accurate weather forecasts are, to empty grocery store shelves.

It's called panic for a reason, it's unreasonable. :rolleyes:
 
I don't think the next panic will be on the national level.

When the next buying spree hits, it will be in individual states.
 
I remember watching "Rawhide" on TV when I was a kid. One cow in the herd would panic and start running. Then another cow would start running. Pretty soon, all the cows would start running. No reason, just because all the other cows were running. Not much difference between people and cows.:rolleyes:
 
Speedo66 said:
All it takes is a negative weather forecast, and we know how accurate weather forecasts are, to empty grocery store shelves.

It's called panic for a reason, it's unreasonable. :rolleyes:
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The Great Toilet Paper Scare of 1973

Read the link which is a true story I recall well. One need only substitute the word Ammunition for Toilet Paper in the story.

Part of the read:
“If people wouldn’t hoard and get so excited about this, everything would be okay,” a supermarket executive told the St. Petersburg Times. He subsequently increased his toilet paper from 39 cents to 69 per roll, but customers still cleared his shelves each day. Merchandisers struggled to re-stock supplies, as the boxcars they relied on for shipments were in high demand by thousands of other stores.
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Ron
 
^^^^ And sugar. And copper. And gasoline. And chocolate. And coffee. And Cabbage Patch dolls,etc, etc, etc. We never learn. :rolleyes:
 
I'll bet there's a lot of new AR15 owners that paid 3 times what the rifles were worth pre-panic. They are probably most unhappy seeing the current prices.

I bought a Colt 6920 last week, and the dealer told me he would have sold it for over $2000 during the panic with no problem at all. Probably more at the height.

He also said things were pretty slow lately, so maybe the great herds have moved on to the next big thing, whatever that might be.

Ammo was $360 for 1000 rounds of PMC 55 grains I believe, which is way down from the panic prices.
 
Ky Larry said:
^^^^ And sugar. And copper. And gasoline. And chocolate. And coffee. And Cabbage Patch dolls,etc, etc, etc. We never learn. :rolleyes:
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I'm pretty level-headed, at least I like to think....

I avoided most of the absurdity of the panic. I did pick up a few more guns before the prices skyrocketed. I'll admit I paid a premium for target ammo every now and then. I'm in good shape if we go into another one. I learned a few lessons.

I picked up reloading as a result of it all, so that was something positive.

But the thought of a coffee shortage scares me to death. I'd be the first in line at 0200 in the morning at Food Lion if it came down to it. gotta have my cup of jet fuel in the morning.
 
well people are realizing the panic hoarding was a suckers bet. I dont see a single gun thats still at those panic prices. Lots of places still charge panic prices but they arent really selling anything.

Its like this, right now i can get any ar style i want in 22 LR. but cant get a single box of 22 rimfire ANYWHERE in 50 miles of my house. and nothing for less then 19.99 a box of 50 online. UNLESS i want to buy sporadically available stuff in case quantities for a 10 percent discount
 
We still can't really buy powder (esp handgun) or .22lr. This panic isn't over yet. :(

It's too soon to have a full on repeat of 2013, IMO, unless something was actually passed and was just X period of time from going into effect.

So...not going to happen
 
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There was a guy that had a AR15 that posted it for sale for $1550.00. Said it was pre ban. I don't think he has any offers and pre ban doesn't matter in 2012 or later.
 
Are there any buyers left for another panic?

Lord, I sure hope so! BILLIONS of rounds of ammunition were utterly bought out by the public in what amounted to an extended transfer of those billions of rounds directly into the hands of the citizens.

Likewise, millions upon millions of dollars were spent by the public in the transfer of firearms from manufacturers directly into the hands of the citizens.

Oh, yeah...I sure hope it happens again! The firearms and ammunition industry got a pretty hefty shot in the arm over all this. And apparently, they went about responding in a smart fashion, choosing not to over-extend themselves in unwarranted expansion which would not be sustainable in the long run...so they're going to be around for a long while, yet.

:):)
 
WikiArms currently shows 24 different types of 22 LR ammo available from 9 or so online stores for less than $.10 per round. I am not saying that is a good price but the ammo IS available with very little searching involved.
 
I stocked on ammo before the panic. Now ammo is getting back to normal rices I am stocking up again. But lots of people only buy one or two boxes at a time no matter what the buying climate might be. There will be people who are unprepared no matter how predictable the panic might be.

What is crazy is people went nuts over bills that had little or no chance of passing. According to PopVox which is run by the Democrats none of the gun bills introduced in congress had more than a 3% chance of becoming law. That just goes to show you how much low hanging fruit we have on both sides of the fence.
 
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