Excess stock will kill a business faster than just about any other thing. You end up with cash flow problems and go to your local money pusher banker and he ends up making all your net profit. There's a HUGE difference from what a person takes in, and how many pennies he gets to keep after all bills are paid.
How come they don't stock extra guns? For the same reason I don't buy two cars at once just to keep one rusting until the other one wears out!
ANOTHER REASON NOT YET MENTIONED FOR THE "BACKORDER" EXCUSE . . . "CREDIT HOLD!"
Yep, lots of businesses who can pay their bills on time get cut off and then have to pay cash, if they can get stock at all!
Gun shops don't want to take those decals off their windows advertising that they are a dealer for all the good stuff because they lost their franchise for slow or no payment of invoices! So . . . they try to switch you to the crap no one ever wants clogging their counters and inventories . . . and blame the requested products company for "backorders."
We have a local gun shop in my town right now like that . . . a store clogged with the wrong crap from from the front door to the back. Tonight was yet another wasted trip for 230 grain premium .45ACP ammo. "Will you be getting some 230 HydraShock in?" "Don't know." "How about Golden Sabre, are you stocking it?" "No."
Not a new Smith revolver (or used) in their cases . . . except a couple of 500s no body will ever buy, month on end. No black rifles, no decent knives. Just years of people picking over the good stuff and leaving the crap that the makers force you to initially buy to get a dealership.
Someone mention Rugers? NO NEW .32 autos here. No Ruger autos except a Mk III. Revolvers, take your pick of a pair of high dollar engraved John Wayne Vaqueros, a bird's head grip Ruger single action . . . and MAYBE a Blackhawk.
Natch . . . they have the little Taurus revolvers and a Charter Arms. Used? A single Astra. I hear them discouraging trade ins of all types all the time too.
It is sad to see the death of a store this way.
Oh well, they FINALLY decided to get back in the gunpower business in a small way after telling me a year ago that "people don't reload anymore so we got out of the business."
The have a little powder, such as a pound of Universal Clays for $24.95, but zero primers, no bullets, and no brass!
Large store too.
BTW . . . if you are looking for a safe (I am), they've got two Brownings in stock . . . at $3,500 a pop. Take your pick. I'll bet the others are still on "backorder.":banghead:
Oh yeah . . . if you are looking for a tiny camoflage bikini bottom trimmed in pink, or a camo and pink license plate . . . THEY GOT IT!