rentprop1 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:26 am
This panic has been a lot of new gun owners
I do believe you are correct as to how/why the panic started but as soon as inventory started to disappear and prices moved up many gun owners jumped in on the stuff they meant to get and were now afraid they would not find.
I seriously doubt the reason for so much in reloading powder/primers being Out of Stock is because of first time gun buyers
The big question is how long this panic will last.
Personally I have some ammo I paid too much for Oct 2016 that is now selling for about what I paid then
This spike was a complete surprise to me so I had not bought anything at all to "cash in" on a panic
It will last a while, not because the current situation warrants it, but there will be two panics this year. This first one may just be for surprised newbies, but will run into the next. The greater one will be the election, especially the aftermath. There may even be a third, next year, if demos are elected.
Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star.
rentprop1 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:26 am
This panic has been a lot of new gun owners
Brother in law in NY state starting asking about home defense weapon and hunting rifle. I couldn't talk him into a tac14 (which would be worthless for hunting) but he did by a lever action rifle to keep at the house. Based on laws and rules in his state, a gun designed in 1894 basically became his home defense weapon. Unbelievable. Better than nothing. I told him is was an 1894 "assault" rifle.
Am I really supposed to give a shit about the idiots that just now decided to panic and run out to buy stuff that people in the know have had for years?
Yep, I have had two "friends" that had the nerve to call me and ask if I had a gun they could buy since things have gotten crazy. They both even said, "I went to the gun store and they said I have to wait because I don't have a carry permit whatever that is" "I've never heard such a thing" and "I can't find anything in the stores including toilet paper". "What is a person supposed to do?"
My response: Do I look like a fucking store to you? Idiots played stupid and now expect someone else to bail their ignorant asses out. They were told in polite term, DO NOT COME KNOCKING ON MY DOOR.
I still shake my head at home fucking stupid the masses really are. I remember having a College "Professor" that used to say "the masses are asses". It was true back then and is still true today.
Lets see what happens when things get really freakin bad. I can picture some of them running down the middle of US 19 screaming and hollering, help me help me, the government has let me down.....
Those who forget history are destined to repeat it.
rentprop1 wrote: ↑Thu Apr 09, 2020 1:26 am
This panic has been a lot of new gun owners
And I have been asking this question for week: Who are the new buyers ?? Most likely anti-gunner liberals that suddenly discover the reasons for having protection.
I hope they enjoy the restrictions, the waiting period and the rules for internet and gun shows purchases.
just like with booze every year a new batch of folks turn 21 and wanna drink......so think of it that way most of these youngins were 12 at the time of Sandy Hook
"Firearms are a psychological symbol of being safer in uncertain times,” Dennis Santiago, a California-based firearms instructor, and financial risk analyst, said last month. “People will gravitate to them. They are not acquiring them to use them. They are purchasing them, hoping they won't have to.”
GARY
Big bore lover wrote: ↑Fri Apr 10, 2020 9:37 am
I remember having a College "Professor" that used to say "the masses are asses". It was true back then and is still true today.
Thank you! That's my new t-shirt.
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