How long will the gun buying boom continue?

[wally]

Six months to a year and you ain't seen nothing yet once a bill is actually introduced next year. The only way the buying panic will subside is if a bill is introduced and quickly dies instead of passing.

--wally.

 

[jorb]

I agree that it will last at least 6 months to a year. Prices are up due to demand, and I'm afraid they will keep going up for some time. I plan on buying more between now and 20 Jan.

 

[px4storm]

I think there may be another rush early next year. My reasoning is that some people like me are waiting for their tax returns to buy some more guns.
As soon as I get my return, I'm planning on getting an AR. I've always wanted one but never got around to getting it. Now I want to get it before time runs out!

 

[.38 Special]

How long will guns sales be booming for?

Until Obama doesn't ban them, is my guess.

 

[tblt]

Budsgunshop is out of all 9 mm glocks
No ar 15's
no ak 47's

 

[Dr. Tad Hussein Winslow]

2-5 more months or less - unless an MPS occurs.

Until Obama doesn't ban them, is my guess.

Or does.

 

[starboard]

Though we may smirk about the Compton / ghetto dwellers turning in guns for $100 supermarket gift cards, on a grander scale this sort of economic pressure is being applied to all but the wealthy.

As losses of jobs and personal assets mount, and when hyperinflation sets in following the bottom or we keep falling into a depression, a lot of people will be desperate enough to sign away any and all rights/liberties just to get a handout (financed by what remains of the middle class tax payer) from the socialists in D.C.

It would perhaps be impossible to disarm Americans by sending goons to people's homes -- too many angry citizens and too few goons -- but starving the people into submission over time is a much less risky and more sure strategy.

We will be lucky if wild money creation and inflationary deficit spending keeps us from going over the precipice into a SHTF deflationary spiral. So hyperinflation is the "happy" scenario, with an AWB2 looming. Guns, gold, and self-sufficiency are good ways to prepare for either.

 

[qajaq59]

Until everyone tells the dealers they wont buy one at those prces.

 

[chuckusaret]

I think the high gun sales will continue as long as the incoming idiot is in office. I might be wrong but gun bans only ban guns from the law abiding people not the thugs. I intend to buy more guns at the upcoming gun show. I don't have any assult weapons now but will after the Dec gun show here in West Palm Beach Florida

 

[starboard]

IMHO, don't leave a paper trail if at all possible, and don't keep everything in the one obvious place.

 

[.38 Special]

Like under your tin foil hat?

 

[expvideo]

There's always a ban scare. This one is just bigger. Every time I've walked into a gun store and asked about the price of an "assault" rifle, I always get the same answer. "It's a great price, and it will probably be going up soon because...."

It's all BS, and the gun shops profit from hyping it up. The hype will continue as long as they can make it, and when it dies down there will be a new hype.

 

[yokel]

My hunch is that it will continue until that semi-auto replica of a machine gun or select fire is as tightly regulated and restricted as the real McCoy currently is.

History has shown that a flat-out ban will not be needed or necessary in order to reduce the number of so-called assault weapons at large.

 

[waterhouse]

It's purely a matter of economics. People are already hurting now as it is, and many can't afford to buy at these prices. Throw Christmas shopping in the mix - and ordinarily i'd say early/mid Jan would be when it dies down.

I don't know if it is going to be right, but this is my thought as well. I know quite a few people that really shouldn't have bought guns right now (guys recently laid off or who have been told it is likely coming) who just bought their first guns because they were worried Obama would take them away. They also voted for him, which is sort of interesting.

I'm guessing when the Christmas credit card statement arrive the gun they didn't want for the first 35-45 years of their life will be one of the first things to go.

But who knows . . .