Who Bought All Those ’08 Election Guns?

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I bought One rifle 3 days before the election and a new pistol a day after the election. Then another pistol as Obama was being sworn in.:D Helping RKBA statistics for the new White House crew to observe after the election.:cool:
 
I wonder how many "extra" guns were sold. The gun industry is small, and for some manufacturers, it's not too easy to ramp up production. There was increased demand of 25% or even 50% for few months, it's not actually that many guns compared to the number out there in private hands. But it's plenty to create a backlog.

Back then, I had a co-worker who thought he'd get a Mini-14 or AR-15 "someday." For lots of folks like him, Obama was enough reason to decide "today" was "someday."
 
Can you provide a source for these reports?
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Obama said it to Sarah Brady, as reported here and lots of other places, but I doubt that it refers to anything not already covered by the press. For all the secrets in Washington, not much of interest to media consumers goes unreported since every reporter wants a scoop.

I think the hottest topic is various ideas of expanding the NICS check. Just this week, Lautenberg (will he never go away?) was talking about tying in the terrorist watch list. Bloomberg and Schumer want your choice of 1) every sale at a gun show (even private ones) or 2) every handgun sale (even private ones) or 3) just every damn gun sale to require a NICS check.

I think that Obama was just saying something to keep Mrs. Brady happy, and it doesn't really mean anything. But I could be wrong.
 
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I bought a S&W M&P 15 Performance Center at one of the higher retail shops locally for $1,399. I just checked on Gunbroker and can find it for $1,279.

So that's about right. The place I bought it didn't try to jack up their prices. They just saw their inventory evaporate.

Oh, and in response to the OP's query, I already had a significant number of firearms.
 
I didn't buy one specifically because Obama got elected. I bought my first gun (Rem. 870) for hunting in 2005. From there I have acquired these:

.22 pistol
.22 rifle (bolt-action)
.45 1911
.223/5.56 AR

The gun I have used the most is BY FAR the 870 for hunting birds and deer every year. Then would probably come .22 rifle, because it's fun sitting in the middle of a field, beer in hand, plinking the cans. :)
 
I thought that also a couple years ago, know there are always going to be some kind of threat looming over us. I am looking at AK's agian know as I missed the last time, and AR's are just too much to spend for something I really won't use. I think the AK does a lot more damage under 300 yards than anything in that price range. And being in my 60's now I am not shooting 1000 yard targets anymore, I have a friend in my development who still does and he is older than I am. We aways laugh when I see him, I say I'm coming to your house when it happens. He says just get your butts over here, we are set up for the long haul, when I ask about ammo, he just gives me that old Marine stare. Don't worry, when they see the ring of bodies out at 1000 yards, no one is coming any closer with hostile intentions. Of course we are just kidding each other.
I am going to take a ride to the seal museum in FT Pierce, 20 minutes from my home, I hear it's an interesting place, and I would like to go make a donation or buy something, just to show my apreciation.If you werent aware of it, google it, it's right off US1.
 
I have no idea what the truth is, but my favorite gun dealer told me last week that the Obama gun buying rush is just now letting up. This after two and a half years of the current administration.
 
A Little Here, A Little There . . .

I picked up a rifle during that fall, as the vectors began to shape up, and paid for it exactly what I paid for its twin two years earlier.

Then I got a 1k case of ball ammo and a dozen magazines to go with it (them, actually). Then I bought an assortment of onesy-twosy boxes of other ammo, fifty rounds at a time, hundred rounds at a time, brick of .22 LR at a time, as the year wore on.

At the end of the year, after the election but before Xmas, I picked up a pocket pistol in 9mm and some more ammo for that.

Somewhere in there, I picked up a truck gun (Papoose) and stocked a brick and some stingers in the truck for it.

All in 2008. I think. Not totally sure about the truck gun. That might have been early 2009. Hard to tell, I've slept since then.

Also in early winter 2008, I picked up a first rifle -- a BLR in .308 -- for my SIL (daughter's husband) so he could get back into shooting, but I don't think that actually counts.

Still have them all. Have added some ammo since. No plans to sell. Waiting for money to add a couple of missing pieces, like a CZ 512 and a 1911 of some flavor (or an XD-45).

The only one I'm considering selling or trading is the XD-40. Arthritis + snappy recoil = discomfort. And it won't be going for bargain price particularly: I plan to use the proceeds to replace it with a .45 ACP of some flavor.

At no time was there any panic in my thinking. My wife, on the other hand, had just a touch. Which is why I got the funding for my purchases.

 
There will be another frenzy in 2012, mark my words.
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In that case, I should probably start buying low now so I can sell high to panic buyers fearing a Democratic President will somehow start restricting firearm ownership despite what I suspect will be a Republican majority in Congress.
 
I suspect you won't see as much of this as you might think - I know a lot of folks who wanted an EBR for a long time (those who did not previously own any firearms) and Obama was just the final impetus.
 
I never really wanted an AR but bought one just before the election. Now I couldn't live without it. I love to shoot that gun, it is accurate and just plane fun and I can't count the number of people I have proven to that an AR is not the evil thing that the medial makes it out to be by simply showing them some common hunting ammo vs. a .223 round.

Then I present the "machine gun" and spend a good five minutes convincing them that it only is a semi-auto that looks mean but the AR is docile compared to many other very acceptable looking firearms.

I am concerned that if Obie gets back in, he will pull the cork knowing that this is his last four year reign of terror and give a hoot about who or what is to come as long as "I" get my stuff through. He already showed his colors during the congressional elections by not giving much of a darn about the dems that lost and even with more pressing issues on his plate, he can turn the job of gun contol over to a lesser admin official and simply sign off on what ever they come up with.
 
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The only one I'm considering selling or trading is the XD-40. Arthritis + snappy recoil = discomfort. And it won't be going for bargain price particularly: I plan to use the proceeds to replace it with a .45 ACP of some flavor.
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Didn't need to "panic buy" as I was fortunate to have enough weapons in my collection. I did, however, make sure I had enough ammo :) so I guess I did buy more than I might have normally.

Understand your pain. Two weeks before left thumb joint replacement surgery in 2009 I purchased a XD .45, took it out to the range and ran 100 rounds through it. Complications from surgery (including a staph infection) lengthened recovery and alas made shooting the XD a tad more uncomfortable than I wanted. The beefy recoil spring in the XD made racking the slide difficult. While my hand has since strengthened considerably to maybe 85% where it was I still didn't enjoy the XD like before. Sold it and ended up with a S&W 686 and all's well. Funny thing is I own 2 1911's and have absolutely no difficulty racking or shooting either one.
 
I bought my first glock at that time...but it didn't cost me any more than the subsequent glocks that followed.

I'll admit that I have fallen victim to the 10-round limit rumors and stocked up on mags, but I needed to do that anyway. Loading up 10-15 mags prior to taking my outing makes life easier. Now if I can just make the targets go fetch themselves I can just focus on the shooting. Kids are great for this, but the little buggers insist on using my ammo.
 
I paid WAY too much for a 6906 in 08. I wasn't influenced by by the "Obama fears" or the general doom and gloom vibe going around during the time, I was just tired of shooting my friends' guns and wanted one of my own.

I've always loved the 6906 and bought one at a gun shop for 600 bucks. :banghead: Once again, it wasn't a panic buy, I simply did not know any better.

I still have the gun, I still love to shoot it, it has never had any kind of malfunction, I consistently out shoot my friends and their fancy modern polymers and it is my CCW, but every now and then I look at it and shake my head when I think about how much I paid for it.:p

Lesson learned.
 
I was a little young for what I understand was a panic leading up to the '94 ban, but learned my lesson on the '08 election. If BHO is re-elected, this time around I will use the opportunity to trim some stuff for top dollar.

Luckily I didn't buy anything at the peak, but had no idea that prices would bottom out to the extent they are today.

The low prices today mean that either the panic buyers are now selling, demand has dropped, or the producers went overboard thinking the demand would be high longer than it was. Probably a combination of the three.
 
I built a very nice AR 15 during "the big gun rush". It was built at pre-rush prices, but I had to wait 3 weeks for an upper.(better than 6 months).I would not part with it for love or money. The hard times are not over and they're only going to get worse(QE3).I think a lot of people suspect this,and aren't going to part with their guns either.
 
I built a very nice AR 15 during "the big gun rush".
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I built a decent AR during that time frame using mostly BCM prices. The prices I bought/bartered for were about the same price then as now. I wish I had sold it as soon as it was built at the prices similar guns were going for. But it was my first AR and I thought it would be my only one...silly me.
 
I built a very nice AR 15 during "the big gun rush".
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I built a decent AR during that time frame using mostly BCM prices. The prices I bought/bartered for were about the same price then as now. I wish I had sold it as soon as it was built at the prices similar guns were going for. But it was my first AR and I thought it would be my only one...silly me.
 
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