Interesting email from Amazon

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If we continue to patronize these anti companies we will be cutting our own throats. Do not patronize them, there are enough other alternatives. If you come complaining to me after patronizing these sites I would say the problem is you. If you are too lazy or cheap to do otherwise you really don't deserve to own a gun.
 
With respect the cost of Tritium sights...

There's more to this than just the outright cost. There's the fact that there is absolutely nothing electrical or mechanical about Tritium sights that can break, go dead, or otherwise go wrong for 10 to 20 years of continuous operation. Day or night, rain or shine, the Tritium sights WILL be working, without fail, every second of every day during that time.

That's a measure of reliability no other illuminated sight system can hope to approach through conventionally powered (i.e. battery) operation. THAT'S what makes Tritium sights worth the cost to many.

For those who are curious, the way Tritium sights work is this: Tritium, as a radioactive substance, decays by Beta emission. This means the nucleus emits an electron through a process called Beta minus decay. This is a process where a neutron is converted into a proton and in the process emits an electron (a Beta particle) and an anti-neutrino. The Beta particles (electrons) interact with a phosphor, which in turn fluoresces (glows). So long as the Tritium exists, the phosphor will glow while it decays.

Tritium has a half-life of 12.32 years. This mean in 12.32 years, half of the Tritium will have decayed away...and the Tritium sight will be about half as bright as a result. In another 12.32 years, half of the remaining Tritium will decay away...leaving 25% of the original amount of Tritium. And the Tritium sight will be about a quarter as bright as a result.

Depending on how much Tritium was originally present, this means you could get 10 to 20 years of useful life out of a set of Tritium sights...provided, of course, the sights you bought were newly manufactured ones and not ones that have already sat on some retailer's shelf for 5 or more years already.
 
Gaucho Gringo said:
If we continue to patronize these anti companies we will be cutting our own throats. Do not patronize them, there are enough other alternatives. If you come complaining to me after patronizing these sites I would say the problem is you. If you are too lazy or cheap to do otherwise you really don't deserve to own a gun.
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I don't think of Amazon as an "anti company." Bezos himself might be, I don't know. Half of the gun parts, accessories, and reloading tools I've bought have come directly from Amazon. That includes sights, grips, holsters, moonclips, speedloaders, scales, press parts, et cetera. Sometimes when Midway or Brownell's doesn't have something I'm looking for, Amazon does, so I'm glad they're there.
 
I use Amazon and eBay to find the stuff I want that the LGS does not carry.
These companies give me access to much wider selection of goods than I can find locally.
 
I know I have purchased tritium sights from Amazon. Just a couple months ago, in fact. I wonder what the chances are they would ship without comment if you placed the exact same order again?
 
Gaucho Gringo said:
If we continue to patronize these anti companies we will be cutting our own throats. Do not patronize them, there are enough other alternatives. If you come complaining to me after patronizing these sites I would say the problem is you. If you are too lazy or cheap to do otherwise you really don't deserve to own a gun.
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There's no evidence to suggest that Amazon is anti-gun. There is evidence that suggests Amazon may have one anti-gun employee, or someone who misunderstands the regulations. If Amazon is anti-gun they sure don't reflect that in the products they sell. Amazon sells all sorts of firearms-related products.
 
Honestly, knowing Amazon, it seems just as likely that the last person to order one of these sight sets got a box full of them and, rather than explain why they can't ship the sights, someone threw out an excuse.
 
It's the "nucular" (Pres. George W Bush) material that's the issue.
 
In my experience, it can be any number of things, from your local jurisdiction passing some nonsensical new ordinance to you being placed on a terrorist watch list due to a mistake or for no reason at all. Your best bet is to call Amazon on the phone and divine the real reason from a person who will hopefully have a clue (because often they don't).
 
Elkins45 said:
There's no evidence to suggest that Amazon is anti-gun. There is evidence that suggests Amazon may have one anti-gun employee, or someone who misunderstands the regulations. If Amazon is anti-gun they sure don't reflect that in the products they sell. Amazon sells all sorts of firearms-related products.
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Yep, I have bought from them cleaning supplies/equipment, snap caps, speed strips and probably other stuff I'm not remembering right now.
 
It's not just gun parts. Last week I tried to order some tires through Amazon. From six different vendors. Each one said they could not deliver to my area. Little Rock straddles one of the three major east/west truck routes, so it's hardly a backwater.
 
abq87120 said:
OP here - I ordered the same ones from Amazon again. ...
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You may not like this answer, but: it's something specific about you that is causing this.

I, mostly because I intended to do it anyway but slightly because I was curious about your experience, ordered a set of meprolight glock tritium sights from Amazon on Wednesday. They arrived today.
 
Amazon has several order processing centers. It seems to me that someone in the facility responsible for OP's orders (Phoenix?) has a problem with either the OP or the item.
All the more reason to shop somewhere else.
 
Just read this. A couple of years ago I ordered some Meprolight sights for my Shield. Apparently not through Amazon. They showed up in US mail.

Mike
 
CEO of Amazon is a left wing whack job. I'm surprised they sell anything related to shoot sports. Total BS.!!! I buy nothing from Amazon.
 
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