I had to stand in line to buy a pistol today!

[Steel Hayes]

No, I mean they pulled all remaining "hunting" calibers, emptied the gun case, and even the bird shot shells that are out on the shelf. Put it all in the back.

That’s what the did here. Had something to do with rioting and looting.

 

[Rexster]

Nothing new. How can anyone not have known?

1. The NRA has been committing suicide, for some time. Folks who like owning guns are getting anxious, so are buying firearms and ammo.

2. An illness, out of China, has produced anxiety, causing a surge in purchases of firearms and ammo. Who needs zombies; we now have a real-life pandemic.

3. Social unrest, following an incident in a city starting with the letter “M,” in a state starting with the letter “M,” has caused plenty of anxiety/panic buying.

4. Firearms owners may well have a sad November. So, well, that anxiety thing, again, as happens in Novembers, at four-year intervals.

5. Just-in-time delivery has been THE business model, for a while. This means that the smallest increase in demand, creates bare shelves, locally, soon followed by bare shelves, at the distributor level.

I had chosen, months ago, to refresh 12 gauge, 9mm, and .32 ACP, in March/April 2020, coinciding with what I had hoped would be a decent tax return. Well, it was a good thing that I was well-stocked, because finding anything was difficult. (A dismal tax return situation was another matter. Retirement changes one’s budgetary situation.)

As for firearms, well, it is a good thing that I do not normally crave the latest/greatest/hawtest, anyway, and did my catching-up in past years, to the degree that I find myself largely stable, rather than “growing,” overall. In 2020, I have added a Remington Tac-14 Marine Magnum “Other Firearm,” after much consideration, as a niche weapon, and traded a G19 to acquire a second Seecamp LWS-32, as I am probably going to be phasing all or most “compact nines” out of my life. (The muzzle flip of the G19 is DRAMATICALLY worse, for my aging right thumb and wrist, than a G17, a G19x, or full-sized 1911, which have grip frames long enough to stabilize against the “heel bone” of my hand.)

 

[Thunderchicken]

I have been lusting for a particular pistol for a month or so, and I expect due to the market I'll be doing so for the rest of the year. Somewhat annoyingly, I got 250 rounds of .32 ACP a few weeks ago when demand was lower for a new-to-me FEG PA-63. It developed a magazine incontinence issue so I'm left with 200 rounds and a nice surplus leather holster and nothing to do with either.

I think I am pretty well fixed for a while even on ammo I can shoot, but I am going to take this as a lesson and start explicitly budgeting for replacement ammo so when I see some I can buy it without guilt.

 

[toivo]

I have been lusting for a particular pistol for a month or so, and I expect due to the market I'll be doing so for the rest of the year. Somewhat annoyingly, I got 250 rounds of .32 ACP a few weeks ago when demand was lower for a new-to-me FEG PA-63. It developed a magazine incontinence issue so I'm left with 200 rounds and a nice surplus leather holster and nothing to do with either.

Is that when the mag won't stay in the pistol, or when the rounds won't stay in the mag?

 

[MosinT53Hunter]

I have been lusting for a particular pistol for a month or so, and I expect due to the market I'll be doing so for the rest of the year. Somewhat annoyingly, I got 250 rounds of .32 ACP a few weeks ago when demand was lower for a new-to-me FEG PA-63. It developed a magazine incontinence issue so I'm left with 200 rounds and a nice surplus leather holster and nothing to do with either.

I think I am pretty well fixed for a while even on ammo I can shoot, but I am going to take this as a lesson and start explicitly budgeting for replacement ammo so when I see some I can buy it without guilt.

Those FEG PA 63's are pretty nice. Mine's in .380 ACP . Ammo around here is fairly plentiful.

 

[Thunderchicken]

Is that when the mag won't stay in the pistol, or when the rounds won't stay in the mag?

It was the former. Every time I racked the slide, the mag dropped out. I found that I could hold the mag in with my little finger and it would operate, but that seemed like a questionable method, long-term.

 

[Bull Nutria]

MY BUDDY WENT TO Pigeon forge ,TN for a mini vacation this weekend. He stopped by a new Bud's Gun shop in the area. He said the pistol grip pump shotguns were selling like hot cakes as well as some AR-type rifles. the shotguns were being brought out from storage by the pallet ! the rifles were on a pallet also. buyers standing in line at the cash registers. Extreme high gun sales!!

Bull

 

[tws3b2]

I went out yesterday looking for a 12ga. Pump home defense type shotgun. Three gun shops and all I could find was one church hill 12ga. Never heard of it before. Made in turkey, with seemed to be really thin plastic stock for $300. I said no. Happened to think of the pawn shop. They had a Mossberg 500a with a 18 1/2 in. and a 28 in. barrel. for $320. They also had a New Haven 600 with same barrels for $285. Basically the same gun but the Mossberg a little nicer to me. Anyway, in this town of around 25000 that was it. I think I also got the last 4 boxes of buck shot in town. In the gun shops and pawn shop people were talking how crazy things are. I'm 73 and can tell you that for one time in my life I can honestly say I've never seen anything like it.