After purchasing three weapons in the past few months (S&W X-frame 460, Tikka T3 in .270win, and Remington R15 VTR SS Varmint), I can't really say that I am a "panic buy" type of person. I can say that when I realized that there was a rush on, I did accelerate a particular purchase that I was originally looking at making after Christmas/New Years (the R15). I will also say that what was on the shelf at the LGS, and the fact that a particular rifle was on sale had something to do with what I ended up buying. I was looking at getting an AR-platform predator rifle in .204, but bought one in .223 simply because it was on sale, and there were no .204's sitting on the shelves. I figured what-the-heck, there may be nothing on the shelves in a couple of weeks (as it turns out, the shelves were bare in a couple of days!!!), and I could always make a cartridge swap if I don't really don't like the performance of the .223. So, yeah... I bought it a couple of weeks earlier than I was planning. Does that count as "panic buying"?