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If you are a dealer and a customer you already know the state of Ammo and Gun sales. If you want something cool and don't luck up and find it before your competitor does you will have to do without that Springfield XD or Glock 23. Forget it if you want any of the "Holy Grail" items. 223 ammo or heaven forbid and actual Black Rifle that will cycle the holiest of holys.
DPMS is a year out on orders if you want a stock rifle. Other manufacturers are not much better. Pistol manufacturers are shipping insignificant quantities that are causing fist fights between distributor sales associates! (Jk) I went on to one of my distributors websites and did a search for in-stock inventory of handguns. No other limiting factor. They only had 70 types of pistols/revolvers in stock. That is it. Taurus, only had 4! Zero Springfield. Only 10mm Glocks.
And Ammo... ha!
No 9mm, No 38sp, No 380, No 223, No 7.62 x 39, No 357, No 327, No 32 H&R, No 32 acp, etc, etc.
The Market is already reacting in the way you would expect with a shortage. Hoarding and Gouging. The next step will be a massive de-valuation of the hoarded surplus that is on hand. If you have 7 black rifles and expect them to continue to be worth $1000 + you will eventually be proven wrong. There will be a glut of ammo and firearms on the market eventually. Econ 101 suggests that this will cause prices to fall.
This is not good for our industry. In effect, we will have a market correction. There will be no "bailout" for this industry! In fact, while we deal with the consequences of our actions we will be bombarded by our political foes that will exploit our weakness.
So how do we correct this? We can not count on the individuals that would hoard and gouge to correct their behavior, but what can happen is the industry scales up to meet demand and scales down when the "Obama Surge" is over.
The problem is that if your charge is the fiduciary health of say DPMS or Winchester, you have a hard time spending money to scale up production in a political climate that could collapse with one fell swoop if another Columbine or VA Tech incident happens. How do you justify millions in expansion dollars if it could be pulled out from under you tomorrow?
I believe the answer is you just have to. Failure to meet demand places dangerous pressure on and already weary market. The effect of which is basically we becoming our own worst enemy and doing the work of the Anti-gun left for them. Or at least weakening us against their attacks.
So, my suggestion to the DPMS's and Winchester's and Springfield's of the industry is to expand capacity and deal with the devil you know rather than the devil you don't. It's the gun business, we are used to damned if you do damned if you don't decisions... but not ones that result in fratricide!
Ben Cook, Co-Owner
CMC Discount Guns
Pageland, SC
DPMS is a year out on orders if you want a stock rifle. Other manufacturers are not much better. Pistol manufacturers are shipping insignificant quantities that are causing fist fights between distributor sales associates! (Jk) I went on to one of my distributors websites and did a search for in-stock inventory of handguns. No other limiting factor. They only had 70 types of pistols/revolvers in stock. That is it. Taurus, only had 4! Zero Springfield. Only 10mm Glocks.
And Ammo... ha!
No 9mm, No 38sp, No 380, No 223, No 7.62 x 39, No 357, No 327, No 32 H&R, No 32 acp, etc, etc.
The Market is already reacting in the way you would expect with a shortage. Hoarding and Gouging. The next step will be a massive de-valuation of the hoarded surplus that is on hand. If you have 7 black rifles and expect them to continue to be worth $1000 + you will eventually be proven wrong. There will be a glut of ammo and firearms on the market eventually. Econ 101 suggests that this will cause prices to fall.
This is not good for our industry. In effect, we will have a market correction. There will be no "bailout" for this industry! In fact, while we deal with the consequences of our actions we will be bombarded by our political foes that will exploit our weakness.
So how do we correct this? We can not count on the individuals that would hoard and gouge to correct their behavior, but what can happen is the industry scales up to meet demand and scales down when the "Obama Surge" is over.
The problem is that if your charge is the fiduciary health of say DPMS or Winchester, you have a hard time spending money to scale up production in a political climate that could collapse with one fell swoop if another Columbine or VA Tech incident happens. How do you justify millions in expansion dollars if it could be pulled out from under you tomorrow?
I believe the answer is you just have to. Failure to meet demand places dangerous pressure on and already weary market. The effect of which is basically we becoming our own worst enemy and doing the work of the Anti-gun left for them. Or at least weakening us against their attacks.
So, my suggestion to the DPMS's and Winchester's and Springfield's of the industry is to expand capacity and deal with the devil you know rather than the devil you don't. It's the gun business, we are used to damned if you do damned if you don't decisions... but not ones that result in fratricide!
Ben Cook, Co-Owner
CMC Discount Guns
Pageland, SC
