Myself personally, of course. I go to a casino about an hour away if I follow the speed limit (but what V8 engine was ever built to go only seventy on the highway) and it's my primary method of purchasing firearms, actually it has become my only method. In the last eight months I picked up an $2,830 after gas (I always fill my gas tank to the full before I leave) and food for the casion trip (dinner and early breakfast). With the exception of the Super Bowl which I think was technically before the 'recession' and my winnings that I used to buy a Heritage Rough Rider .22lr and few thousand rounds of ammo (9mm, .22lr 550 economy packs at 16 bucks a piece, .357 Magnum, and .44 Magnum) I put the whole sum in the bank. Now granted it was in part me not being able to bring myself to buy another gun before I got a reloading setup(the house I live at where rent for masterbedroom is dirt cheap and the homeowner pays me to keep the place clean and fix it up) which I can't have at my current residence and in part because I'm in law school and when you are looking at after scholarship paying twenty grand a year for the difference in tuition and living expenses, it's hard to make a buy. Plus I already own a Ruger SBH .44 Magnum, Rossi snubby .357 Interarms production, Arcus 9mm 94C, Ruger P90, and now Heritage Rough Rider .22lr/.22mag. Plus a shotgun and Yugo Mauser so I was trying to bring myself to part with one of my handguns and quite bring myself to do that yet so I keep putting money in the bank everytime my winnings reach about 700-800. This last week I walked out after food and gas with $249.
I wil say having been to the gunshow just this last weekened there was a lot of people looking to sell used guns privately and very few people looking to buy. My buddy who works at the local overpriced gunshop was there and I when I stoped by Sunday an hour before closing he had to ward off a few collleagues from me who were desperate to make a sale. This time last year he told me, they sold about seventy percent less new guns this year, luckily they had a bunch of police trade-ins in .357 Magnum and 9mm that he had managed to make a decent commission for himself given that he's a big time .357 Magnum fan like myself and could truly 'sell' the gun and caliber itself to the first time interested buyers. Still the used gun sales was down about 50%.
Now that's not to say all gun stores aren't selling well, one local shop where I buy ammo that's prices and quality of ammo is competitive with Wal-mart (and they sometimes cut me a deal on bulk buys because they know I go to them almost exclusively for ammo) has been doing alright considering they sell guns of lesser known brands that the over-priced shops won't like firestorm, Armscor (Rock Island), FEG productions, Cobra, Skyy, and Taurus productions I haven't found elsewhere. Now granted I live in Casselberry not too far from Orlando meaning we have large populations of liberal yankees and northerners who have no desire to own guns but if you go to Eustis here in Florida, guns sales are through the roof because the IPSA range I patronise has gotten wise and kept it's gun prices as low as possible prefering volume over price plus special sales means like putting red dots on price tags which gives the buyer a 100 dollar gift card good for ammo, cleaning supplies, and holstesr, etc. just not the firearm itself.
I feel (and slightly hope) a gun bubble is coming as people who already own guns hold off on new purchases as other things become more important (savings, mortgage payments, gas, and groceries) and new comers are hopefully smart enough to bargain shop as I point people in the directions of pawn shops (where there are some pretty great deals like Ruger P89s going for 300 and 629s going for 450 [If I didn't want the .460 Magnum I'd get one] and Taurus productions going for between 300-350) but if there is a bubble it may well be far off as the bad things coming down the pipe.