Are you going out and selling off your high-demand items right now for crazy prices? Why not? If pricing high is unethical then price low and sell immediately.....oh what's that? You wouldn't sell at any price? Congratulations, the AR or AK etc. you're sitting on for your personal use is worth $1800 or $2500 bucks to you (or whatever price you aren't selling it for), so how can you be surprised when an AR is worth that much to somebody else?
The only people to blame for this current gun market are the buyers. We did this to ourselves. I've never seen so many NIB guns on armslist from private sellers who are more than happy to make the money that the dealer didn't. Even if the gunshops did price things at pre-scare prices they're just doing some other guy a favor who will just buy stuff to flip it. They might as well hand out money with each sale.
I have a bunch of guns I could make a tidy profit off of right now, the problem is that I'm not sure when if ever I'll be able to replace them (private collection). I'm not even speaking of politics either, I'm more concerned that for a good while after supply catches up that people will have gotten a little too comfortable with the current market and may want to continue making a little more on certain things. There might be a small wave of panic-buyers selling things off but they will be the ones demanding $1200 when the same rifle sits on a store shelf for $900. In the end I think many people will hold onto their scare guns just to avoid the black eye of straight-up losing $600 on an impulse.
One thing is certain though, it will be a looong road to recovery. While demand can shoot up in one day, supply can not.
The only people to blame for this current gun market are the buyers. We did this to ourselves. I've never seen so many NIB guns on armslist from private sellers who are more than happy to make the money that the dealer didn't. Even if the gunshops did price things at pre-scare prices they're just doing some other guy a favor who will just buy stuff to flip it. They might as well hand out money with each sale.
I have a bunch of guns I could make a tidy profit off of right now, the problem is that I'm not sure when if ever I'll be able to replace them (private collection). I'm not even speaking of politics either, I'm more concerned that for a good while after supply catches up that people will have gotten a little too comfortable with the current market and may want to continue making a little more on certain things. There might be a small wave of panic-buyers selling things off but they will be the ones demanding $1200 when the same rifle sits on a store shelf for $900. In the end I think many people will hold onto their scare guns just to avoid the black eye of straight-up losing $600 on an impulse.
One thing is certain though, it will be a looong road to recovery. While demand can shoot up in one day, supply can not.