GUNS & AMMO

"santa" got me a new holster for my cz. This thing is super comfy. Man what a difference
418665_577973445561495_774986239_n.jpg
 
I had a lucky Christmas in a way. When my dad asked what I wanted I told him a stripped lower would be nice. This was before all the shootings. He got me this three days before the CT shootings
9u6emy3y.jpg

Spike tactical.

Then of course I got worried about the other stuff I needed. Lucky for me I bought a few pmags before I even knew he got this for me. I figured they would be hard to get and I was right.

Then again, yesterday I got lucky again when my cousin offered to sell me a complete upper for a really great deal. He's converting one to a different caliber so he can hunt deer with it and offered all the stuff he doesn't need.
 
Just an FYI...as I left my work (a local gun shop) today...the current CBI waitin list is 11,000+ and still growing fast...estimated wait times are projected @ 100+hours. Buyers from last saturday, whom I'd told 28+hrs...are still waitin. So I doubt highly anyone, who buys today, clears in less than 10 business days.

On another note, actual manufacture/distributor costs have not increased yet. But are expected to early 2013. BY how much I do not know.
Not all dealers are boosting prices, although MANY are. Those with a brain know this is Price Gouging....Although, as always, the buyer sets the selling price, and if the buyers are willing to pay extremely high prices to get what the dealer has, why not give it to the buyer at the price the buyer is willing to pay? No, this is not the Ideas my "work" operates under...

However, after reviewing several of the public firearms auction sites. It sure seems that the general public selling guns on the net is definitly following the motto of price gouging. Really makes me wonder why the shop I work at didn't attempt to make more than the normal $100 or so per gun sold...Then my ethics kick in and I remember its just wrong to rape the buyer just because you can. And even though the buyer is willing to take it any way they can get it, its still wrong...
Frustrates me to see people willing to spend $300-$500 (Stripped AR Lowers)on the net,:geek: for parts that retailed 10days ago for $125...Then transfer the merchandise into our shop for them, at an additional cost... While, If/when the ethical dealer(s) could/can aquire the same parts today, from our distributors, who are Out of Stock, for who know how long, on many but not all parts/firearms....would still be sellin them for $125 and not one penny more. The public however, has seen it upon themselves to buy at a feverish rate. Those with extra $$$ are buying many, only to tripple their investment by selling to the next guy in line willing to pay $XXX...You the buyer decides the limits you are willing to open your wallets, or even childrens college funds, to make a quick buck....Or get the rifle you desired. It is REALLY getting crazy...FIfteen + years in the retail firearms industry...And I cant recall it bein this bad. Nearly this bad, yes. Everytime the proverbial :eek:"Panic Buy Now"!!!1 button is pressed by some event in our daily lives...
 
There is no "price gouging", that is just a term used to try and demonize how a market works -- the current market for firearms is under extreme legislative pressure, with a whole lot of signs that such pressure will create a scarcity of product in the very near future. Economics 101 says that increased demand combined with scarcity of supply will drive up prices -- if $500 lowers are what the buyers are willing to pay, then that is what they're worth. It truly is capitalism at its best (no sarcasm intended).

To look at it the other way, what if our benevolent government were to try and exercise price controls and say "oh no", you shalt not charge more than $125 per lower" -- would you have any left at all? No, demand would snatch them up, likely by opportunists who would be flipping them at $500 on the black market. Price gouging laws are pure BS, sold to the public as protecting the little guy, when actually its the little guy who gets screwed.
 
its worth whatever someone will pay for it...
 
LOL -- yeah, their cow-towing to the ban crowd immediately following the Conn. tragedy was definitely an error in pleasing their customer base...
 
why I refuse to get on any "lists", including that of CC lists (understanding the current assurances of CO sheriff's that such lists remain quite confidential) -- note the interactive map included with the article specifically identifying the exact location of every household with a registered weapon... scary shite (and this is an internet publication run by Gannett Broadcasting, the owner of the bulk of TV stations nationwide, and much of the newsprint, including USA Today:

http://www.lohud.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2012312230056&gcheck=1&nclick_check=1
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Bent
The BEST Medicine
Replies
7
Views
186
Nimrod
Nimrod
S
Frame work
Replies
1
Views
221
Evan03
E
P
1999 XJ is getting the best of me. No Start.
Replies
13
Views
239
Anak
Anak
U
1993 Jeep XJ
Replies
3
Views
219
Unclewolverine
U
W
Bogging in final gear
Replies
1
Views
141
Dragonslayer
D
Back
Top