Buying Frenzy

Around San Antonio you'd have thought the Mexican Army was marching on The Alamo. Seems like anything black went up about 25%. Some ammo; .45 ACP, .357, .38, 9mm, 5.56, 12 ga all flew off the shelves at again about a 25% increase in price. Reloading components were danged hard to get with Primers jumping at least 35% in price. I'll be glad when this is over.
 
This is why you really need to be interested in more than one kind of gun. If you want to be a gunoholic that can continue to feed your addiction (at reasonable prices), you need to love C&R's, revolvers, single-stack autos, unusual guns, and NFA in addition to the tacticool black semi-autos. When everyone wants AR and AK stuff, look at MAS-49's, Garands, and Chipa Rhinos!:eek:
 
While the gun business does seem to be brisker than normal in my area, it hasn't gotten even near the level of the Great Panic of '08/'09. Around here, you can still get most guns, ammo, and reloading components without having to pay scalper's prices though there may be a specific model here or there that's difficult to get. Even Walmart, which seemed to be the first place to run out of everything and the last to get it all back in stock last time, seems to be able to keep their ammo shelves stocked.
 
I stay away from gun shops and gun shows now for the most part too. I keep an eye out for Gunbroker and local Armslist deals.

you need to love C&R's, revolvers, single-stack autos, unusual guns, and NFA
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Add black powder guns and antiques to the list and that's ALL I'm interested in. Never got into the black guns or tacticool stuff, but I certainly understand others being interested in them!
 
I was just at a gun show over the weekend. Ammo prices seemed to be in the 10-20% above normal range, but black guns didn't seem that over-priced (well, gun shows are usually over priced, but you know what I mean). I even saw a couple good deals that beat local dealer prices for guns.

In other words, there was a bit of a frenzy, but it wasn't as bad as I thought. I did pick up another 1000 rounds of 9mm, however...just in case.
 
Around San Antonio you'd have thought the Mexican Army was marching on The Alamo.
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I'll have to agree with this statement. I live about 200 miles west of SA and had 4 guns that I had no luck trying to sell at local gun shows. A few weeks ago I took them to the gun show off of I410 and sold all four within the first hour there for my asking prices. I then got to looking around at what people were asking for their guns at the show and left with all my money.
 
Around San Antonio you'd have thought the Mexican Army was marching on The Alamo.
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As I said in another recent thread, I have seen NO signs of a frenzy in progress... and I live only 250 miles north in DFW. :) Any frenzies that are occurring seem to be highly localized.

My observations match Webleymkv; the only shortages I've observed have been on small pistol primers, but shortages of these seem to be sporadically happening in my area for a few years now, even after the Great Panic of '08 wound down.
 
I was at my LGS last weekend. According to them business is slow, but then again their prices are high. A new Ruger GP100 that was $475 in fall 2009 is now $699.
 
Here in San Diego my LGS is Turners outdoorsman . They often have great deals on guns . I just picked up a Savage 10 FCP-K for $800 . I got my Ruger American there for $360 And they have a ton of EBR for well under 1k . I know these are not the best prices in the US but they are great for CA . You need to take a number to be waited on , there often is 20+ people in front of me . I do alot of impulse buying when that happens .

A new Ruger GP100 that was $475 in fall 2009 is now $699.
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When I see things like that . I try not to go to that store any more . you know ruger didn't raise there price so either there distibutor or the store them selves is gouging us . There was a gun store that I bought my first gun from ( 20+years ago )just around the corner-ish from turners . Bought my Ruger 22/45 from turners for $300 on sale . The other stores sale price was $400 . The other stores prices were always way higher then turners . Needless to say they just went out of business this year . That store was there for as long as I could remember .
 
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There isn't the madness happening like there was in 2008-09 but there is some heavy buying happening. I haven't seen bare shelves and the massive backorders that happened 4 years ago. All but one of the local gun stores have plenty of EBRs, pistols, and ammo on the shelf and prices are fair, too. (The one that doesn't refuses to keep ARs and Glocks in stock in large quantities. Never mind that they're the most popular guns in America and sell like bottled water in Hell; he doesn't LIKE them. Not on principal, mind you, he just doesn't like the way they shoot and feel, so he won't keep them in stock. When he told me that, I politely informed him that the dollars he makes selling those spend exactly like the dollars he makes selling a nice bolt gun. And he complains about not making any money, wonder why?) Sorry for the ramble.

I'm not sure it's that the buying is less heavy than the last time around so much is that everyone was prepared this time and had plenty of stock built up for the frenzy they knew would come.
 
It is ironic, sad, and funny all at the same time. The best sellers of guns are the anti-gunners and the real irony is they don't even get a cut :rolleyes:
 
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