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I don't know about you guys, but I've been in a lot of local gun stores (big & small) and everywhere I went it was very busy. I mean busy.

Personally, I purchased anything/everything I've wanted to fill out my collection (acquisitions) before Nov hits. I've also prepared for an attack on ammo, which I feel is a certainty if HC gets in. I reload so it makes it easier.

The point of this post is to see if everyone has noticed a huge uptick in the gun stores or is it just a local thing. I think it is nationwide and that every person who knows a thing or two is getting ready. Good. I just wish that the newbies to this world take heed of the advice of many here. If you want an AR, get it now, not next week or next month. If this is a run, it will get harder to get ANYTHING cheap like it is right now.

You can buy a nice AR for $500 today. Next month I bet it will be $650 and then in Oct they will be $800 or more, if you can find them. I think that the ammo is the right thing to buy right now. I truly believe that HC will put a tax on ammo as her first attack on the gun world. Probably by March 1, if she gets in. If Trump takes it, this bubble will burst and we will probably go back to the present level if not a bit cheaper. Big gamble.
 
Mock panic?
Nah.
I'm just saying.....

I guess, whether we talk about it or not, that I am seeing it in the gun stores right now. Yeah, threads like this fan the flames but how many people who are in the gun stores today are on a gun forum of any kind? 5%? Less? The members is not very significant (gun population wise) and the active posters is actually a small percentage of the total.

So, which part of the OP was fallacy, hyperbole or just wrong?

If we don't discuss it, it won't happen, right?
 
I was talking to the gent doing the paperwork as I got my last "Gotta Have" gun out of lay away (A Talo G43). He said their gun sales have been triple what they were last year. Even suggested I put in an application for part time work as they need help. Other shops I've visited seem similarly busy.

My safe is stuffed, no more room for long guns and precious little for hand guns. I may trade off a few big bore blasters I don't hardly shoot anymore for something I'll get more use out of. Beyond that from here on I'm concentrating on any accessories I may need, spare mags, spare parts and some tools to allow me to perform some home gunsmithing & repairs. Also trying to add more ammo & components.

After witnessing the hordes that emptied the shelves after Sandy Hook I'm doing all I can to be stocked up beforehand. If you chose not to do the same that's on you.

I honestly believe if Hillary wins in November the attack on the second amendment will be unprecedented via any means possible. Ammo restrictions, opening up suits against gun makers & sellers, etc, etc, etc.... Most gun shops I visit now are very well stocked and prices are mostly reasonable. That's very likely to change as the election grows closer.
 
Indeed, despotism is HC's purpose and the purpose of any and all forces in our society who support her bid to render Americans disarmed and defenseless. Some of her less astute supporters are already sighing aloud about the need for "benign" dictatorship. Others, less imprudent, slyly promote the notion that to secure ourselves against madmen and terrorists, we have no choice but to surrender to government all means of defending ourselves against either. Their policy is "Disarm and trust the government." But when those in government become, or make use of madmen and terrorists (as the totalitarian Communists and Nazis of the 20th century did), what then?

The U.S. Constitution is a preventer rather than an enabler of the so-called progressive agenda and therefore must be removed as an obstacle. Obama once called it a "charter of negative liberties." And so the dream of a benevolent dictator who will powerfully push aside all opposition and enact just and virtuous laws throughout the land dwells in the psyche of the left. Human beings will always succumb to the corrupt temptations of power, but that doesn't stop progressives from trying.
 
I was at a gun show here in Albuquerque last weekend. It was so slow on Saturday I packed up and left at the end of the day. Just about every dealer I spoke with was having a really bad show, and most blamed it on the fact that so many people, at least in New Mexico, are having a tough time just making ends meet, and can't afford to buy guns or ammo. I sold one gun all day.

This may vary with other parts of the country but it's been pretty slow the past several shows here. We'll see how the shows in November and December do.
 
My LGS don't seem all that much busier, but I live in BFE.

Go 50 miles to a store like Academy, and the guns section always has traffic. Pistols under 300 bucks are always sold out.

Just about all the cheap uppers and lowers available online are out of stock right now. PSA, Anderson, etc.
 
Indiana is quiet

Actually fairly slow here with traffic way down from the past two years.
Ammo sales lower
Rifle sales lower
HG sales average
Reloading supplies excellent

I am a regular shooter and keep a consistent supply of supplies on hand.
LGS stores have a great supply of all common powders and primers and even special order bullets were in within 3 days.
 
Local gun shops are about as usual, lot's of stock. Local Walmart,which seems to be a barometer of availability was jam packed with all ammo but .22LR last Sunday. .22LR is available everywhere else however for decent price.

I think a lot of people simply have everything they want since the last few years of record sales. I am sure there will at least be a spike the closer the election comes and after, I am holding off on getting rid of a few things until then.
 
I think it's good to see that it's not a national thing. Hopefully we've learned from the last 2 buying frenzies and this one will just be a blip on the radar.
 
The local LGS I deal with almost exclusively has been very busy. He is always replacing and updating stock to keep the shelves full. His concealed carry classes, he has at least one a week are almost always full and have been for most of this year. Only time will tell how long that will last but looking good at the moment. Last year was a little slower but it was still a record year for him.
 
My go to local gun store has been crazy lately (PA). I was in there trying to buy some accessories the other day and there were people three deep at the gun counter so i just left. I think it is hit or miss though. One of the other shops I stop in at said they have been slow, but they also have a little higher pricing and IMO are already trying to benefit from the election hype. Their AR15 rifles have been marked up from what I previously saw.
 
I still have supplies I bought before the first Clinton signed the AWB into law. If you wait to stock up you just pay the stupid tax of higher prices or do without.
 
Things seem to be about normal here. Guns, ammo, parts, and reloading components are still plentiful and priced normally.
 
Red Wind said:
I suppose this is an acronym for, "I live in the middle of nowhere". :scrutiny:
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Things around my area have just now settled to nearly pre sandy hook. Wal mart had 22 ammo on the shelf for the first time since 2012.

Arms list isn't full of 12cent 22 ammo for sale
Most powders and components are in stock

It will be short lived though, the clock is ticking
 
Thanks,Voodoo. I knew. Just keeping it clean! :D
Old Brit no doubt.

My LGS has been moderately active. He has no competitors for 30 miles so it's hard to tell.
 
I don't know about the situation in gun stores, because I don't frequent gun stores any more. I'm at a stage in my collecting in which the local gun stores simply don't have anything I want (and don't already have).

I've shifted all my buying to the large gun shows, of which there are plenty in this area. The shows around here are pretty busy lately.

Anyone who has waited until now to stock up hasn't been paying attention.
 
The LGS I do most of my business with is always busy when I go in. The last three times have been for FFE transfers and I've had to wait for a sales person to free up. There's usually been at least one other person buying a pistol or rifle at the same time. Ammo's been spotty in both availability and price. 5.56/.223 and .308 are usually plentiful.
 
In the Seattle area, the gun stores seem to be fairly busy when I'm there. They never seem to have small pistol primers or the powder that I'm looking for (Unique, Bullseye, Power Pistol and a couple of others). So whenever I see something I'll pick it up.
 
I agree about certain powders not being easy to find. I used to be able to find Bullseye everywhere, anywhere. Now I never see it when I walk into any gun shop, big or small. It is online but the hazmat fee makes it too much and I don't want enough to bury the extra cost.

Primers seem to have settled in the $32 to $38 range per thousand so I don't pick those up at that price. The last time I stocked up was when Cabelas had them for $19.99 in the spring. I scratched that itch with that sale. It doesn't seem like we fully recovered from the last panic with all the usual powders at reasonable prices. Even at the $28+ a pound I see a lot, there are still a lot of voids in the more popular powders.
 
Dove seasons start in early September in most states, with other hunting seasons starting not long afterwards, so the gun shops are coming into their historically busy times anyway.
 
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