Bushmaster1313, I am already seeing gun deals cropping up where people went and maxed credit cards at panic prices who's bills are coming due with not enough cash to cover their expenditures. Also seeing people that bought at the peak, seeing shelves restocking and prices slipping a bit trying to minimize potential losses by cashing out that second or third gun they bought on an impulse due to the train of thought that keeps threads like this perpetuating.
I have been playing this game for 35 years. I saw the Bush1 panic, the Clinton panic, post shooting panics and now the Obama threats that look like they have as much teeth as his promise to have the troops home within 100 days of taking office. So are they home? There have been 3.5 times as many combat deaths during the first four years of this administration than the entire eight of the previous administration. Instead of just troops in Iraq & Afghanistan we can now add Pakistan, Libya, Uganda, Congo, South Sudan, Niger and the Central African Republic. (who did I miss?) Thus I don't take his already passed threat for immediate Executive Orders or significant legislation banning our Second Amendment Rights at the Federal level. He doesn't have the juice to get it done along with socialized medicine and solving global warming. They are going to tighten up a few things like unrecorded sales by private citizens and maybe a few other minor pieces then call it a major victory in keeping the public safe.
Thus, if the people new to the gun game. Or who have short memories about how this game has played out in the past. Remember the gun control act of 1934 (NFA but I can still pay 200 bucks to play that game)? Or the one in 1968? (I was five years old at the time but 45 years later I can still buy a pistol at a fair price) Yes, they keep carving little slices of the pie and they may eventually eat the whole darned thing but not this time. So once again, the inexperienced panic, others profit and eventually it all normalizes again while some of the players get fat but more take a bath in the end due to their inability to control their panic emotions. The sooner they calm down, the sooner the press forgets about it, the sooner this all levels out and then we all go back to shooting while the number of guns in private hands goes up by 30% or more.
O.K. All together, take a deeeep breath, Innnn, Ouuut. Repeat. Say to yourself its going to be alright. I AM NOT GOING TO PANIC ANYORE. Stop overpaying, be patient, its going to all work out. Just a tip from Uncle Huey. Of course, its all conjecture on my part based on past history, I do not own, nor do I trust a crystal ball.
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Queen of Thunder. Ammo is coming back slowly. Not everywhere and not immediately and the reason is that as long as people stay in fight or flight mode, people like me have too much incentive to use our experience to gather large percentages of the product and keep it off the shelves so that the panic crowd continues to pay a buck a round and allow venture capitalists to triple their money. Just another commodity that has gone loopy due to fear. Once people stop paying triple price or even double, the incentive for the "gougers" as investors are being called these days comes to an end and it sits on the shelves long enough for the less crafty to acquire at a reasonable price. It is just so simple that I cannot fathom why its so hard for the masses to grasp. I really am trying to be honest and help. That said, I gotta jump sites and sell some ammo.
