How long until prices return to normal on guns

[ravencon]

Sooner rather than later the "economic stimulus" will generate very high rates of inflation. Then the price of everything will go up. Under such circumstances comparing prices becomes something of an academic exercise.

 

[ShootTheM14]

Once the hoarders and fear buyers are satisfied prices will drop IMHO. I volunteer as a safety officer at a local range and after the elections we had legions of new shooters with new pistols, fancy ARs or cheap SKSs who barely knew how to load their weapons and could not open their actions or clear jams. That's finally started to die down and things are returning to normal. I think that over the next 6 months things will get better and within a year supply might return to normal. Maybe that's just wishful thinking on my part.

 

[Diggers]

I think we will soon see a turn around.

I think the market will be flooded with slightly used like new firearms that people bought on a fear impulse.

These same people will look around and realize they can still buy guns when the want to, so they will sell the "extra" guns the bought because they need the cash.

This will cause prices to go down.

YAY!

 

[.cheese.]

Sell "extra" guns? That's blasphemy!!! Off with his head!

Seriously though, I hope you guys are right. I would like to buy a few more things just to have really at this point... I'm not paying 2x MSRP though.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

I do not think you will see a return to normal until after Obama leaves office. I think the level of panic will simply wax and wane. Every few months, I expect someone with loose lips in his administration will slip up and mention assault weapons, and the panic will resume.

If you have an extra AR to sell, it does not make sense to try to sell it at this point, as things seem to have temporarily died down. Just wait a little bit and you will be able to jack the price up an extra couple hundred bucks.

 

[runrabbitrun]

I could sell my folding stock SKS for tripple what I paid
for it right now, but that's not gonna happen.

If anything, I want more tactikool weapons
but I'm not coming off the cash even though I just
got a boat load of $$ and more to come from an inheritance.

 

[dvlhntr]

I am seeing Colt 6920's, the "holy grail" of ARs to many, selling for under $1300.

mind sharing where? maybe I am not good with the web of tubes but my normal check-ins seem to all be "sorry still out... colt lottery draw and all that".
it could be a load of _____ but what do I know.

I know LMT is still playing catch up on at least some orders placed in Jan.

 

[psyopspec]

When the market is saturated, or people get tired of owning expensive guns they realize they don't ever shoot.

If you shop hard enough you can find what you're looking for, and at similar prices to early 2008. As far as EBRs, surely I can't be only one waiting for the used AR market to saturate with unfired models.

 

[.cheese.]

I just want to get 2 Sig 556 SWAT models at or below MSRP. I was originally quoted $1775 when I ordered them, but today my dealer tells me that if he gets them he may have to charge double. So, that's double on top of double (for 2), or roughly $7,100 for 2 guns before tax. $7526 after tax. I wasn't playing that game. I realize it's not his fault, but rather the distributor responding to market forces (and greed).

I told him to keep them if he gets them. I offered originally in January to pay in advance. He turned me down. I'm glad at least of that. I am just looking to get another Kahr MK40 Elite in the meantime before I leave for Minnesota. I'll try to get my Sig 556 SWATs in Minneapolis. It will be like popping my Minneapolis cherry metaphorically speaking.

2 guns shouldn't cost 1/2 of a year's worth of law school tuition (I'm counting a scholarship I got).

 

[RedLion]

Hmm, i bet it going to be quite long. it's going to be even longer especially with gun dealers and gun rights activists up in arms about bans hitting the floors in Congress. I'll bet every few months there will be another scare or something that will cause prices to hop up again. Pretty pathetic that people are so eager to listen to this propaganda.

 

[Kingcreek]

If the liberal dems lose the house and/or senate in the mid term election there will be a collective sigh of relief and these issues will settle back down.

 

[30mag]

I think the market will be flooded with slightly used like new firearms that people bought on a fear impulse.

Can't wait.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

I am seeing Colt 6920's, the "holy grail" of ARs to many, selling for under $1300.

No one else seems to have seen these selling for less than $1300. Can you back this up? If not, I think I will consider the sub $1300 6920 in the same category as the Yeti or his North American cousin, Saskwatch.

 

[JohnBT]

Five weeks ago a store owner offered me a nib 6920 for $1520 or $1529. And he's always come down a little for cash. The $675 FNP I bought with a check was $630.

It appears the AR market is softening.

John

 

[chuckusaret]

Once the hoarders and fear buyers are satisfied prices will drop IMHO.

Wrong!!!!, the gun manufacturers are not gouging us, its the distributors and retailers. If you were selling guns today at the outrageous prices, and people are buying, why would you even think of lowering the price.
Gander is selling WWB .40 caliber (50 round box) for $59.95 while the same ammo is selling for $13.95 at Walley World. Normal profit margin on ammo, I would guess, should be in the 10 to 20 % range not in the 400 %
range like Gander

 

[TexasRifleman]

Can you back this up? If not, I think I will consider the sub $1300 6920 in the same category as the Yeti or his North American cousin, Saskwatch.

Clyde Armory was advertising them in stock for , I believe, $1350 just a couple of weeks ago.

They went back up again since I posted in this thread.

Another dealer here in the DFW area had 2 for $1299 about a month ago as well.

Clyde has the 6450's (9mm LE version) for $1300 right now, showing in stock.

They are out there, you just have to look for them.

 

[chuckusaret]

IMO, we gun buyers are being raped by the people that we keep in business, the local gun shops. I have a very good friend in the gun business and he laughs all the way to the bank every day.

 

[Lone_Gunman]

Clyde Armory was advertising them in stock for , I believe, $1350 just a couple of weeks ago.

Are you talking about the Clyde Armory in Bogart, GA? If so, I was there 2-3 weeks ago, and they were asking $1499 for 6920's. Their website does show 6450's for $1299, but who wants a 9mm AR?

 

[CWL]

The jury is still out. It will take 1-2 years into Obama's presidency. By then, we'll know pretty certainly whether he will have a gun-control agenda or not.

If he's too chicken to create one (probably), then prices for everything will crash (like after the original Assault Weapons Ban sunsetted), however, if his stimulus package has helped the economy to the point where he is emboldened to pursue gun-grabbing, you will see more price hikes.

 

[sernv99]

If the Dems lose significantly in the mid-term elections, expect a drop in prices. If they continue to steam roll over the GOP in the mid-term election, especially with more liberal leaning candidates, expect prices to spike and ammo to still be scarce.

 

[ChronoCube]

Classic Arms is offering dealer discounts on their EBRs:
http://classicarms.us/

I wonder if they're getting desperate to sell?

EDIT: Their AKs, CETMEs, and Golanis have been sitting there for weeks. They just added the dealer discount today, I think.

 

[Limeyfellow]

Great that way we can have the Republicans introduce banning bills instead like what they were doing in the late 90s, early 2000s. The weird thing is there were plenty of pro gun Democrats that got elected last year to the house, and the amount of hassle to pass a bill with the stuff going on would be ridiculous.

The few crazies who want to ban firearms aren't going to get their way and the bills will die in committee, but while you can use it to scare people into buying for way more than they would normally pay, I think the gunshop owners should start contributing to their campaigns.

 

[crazy-mp]

Right now the market is pretty stable, you cant sell what you don’t have or you cant sell what people will not bare to pay....With that in mind, if/when the good people in Washington even mention gun laws the market will be 10 times worse than it is now, even those skeet rounds will be gone.

Its anybody’s guess right now, I would love to see the market flooded with AR's or AK's even some 15 round handguns would be nice or even the ability to go to the local gun shop and buy some .22 ammo at will an not pay .30 cents a round for it would be great!

 

[federalfarmer]

They are NOT coming for your guns!
Its the ammo....control that and you control millions of firearms instantly. Yes I expect to buy cheap guns....but I hoard ammo and can feed them for many years.
Your goal should be have all the loaded ammo (forget reloading supplies, if you have it reload it) you want to shoot for the rest of your life.

 

[30mag]

IMO, we gun buyers are being raped by the people that we keep in business, the local gun shops. I have a very good friend in the gun business and he laughs all the way to the bank every day.

I'm a gun buyer and I can only buy a freaking box of 9mm every four weeks because where I buy my ammo is always out.
Quit buying so much freaking ammo.