Is It The Beginning of the End?

lagavulin62 -- I've been to only one gun show locally, and that was after I bought my S&W. There were no SP-101 models for sale there, though -- I specifically looked for them. However, just recently our local premium/huge sports store (Scheels) had two SP-101s in stock, both of them the 2" barrel/snubby models. There were also several SP-101s in stock at one of the big gun stores in Oklahoma City when I was visiting there earlier this month, including some with 3" barrels. The friend I was visiting bought one.

So I think the gun shortage is slowly easing up. I hope the ammo shortage will follow; it's a pain to have to spend a few hundred to stock up just to be sure I have enough rounds to practice.
 
>>>Have a M&P 9 compact I wanted a full size to go with it. Last week went looking and I came home with a Beretta 92FS. Was able to buy the Beretta way cheaper than the M&P I think the M&P was popular so they raised the prices, way to go S&W
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When you consider the amount of time and work that goes into a Beretta 92, what with the extruded alloy frame and the forged slide, and specially fitted parts, compared to an investment cast slide and poured plastic frame, you got a steal brother!
 
Glenn E. Meyer commented:

It also emphasizes the development of the the two gun cultures and how the sporting/hunting part isn't the growth area.
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That doesn't surprise me. A great many of the new firearm owners I've encountered as I researched and bought my own first gun, and went to my CCW class, are first-time owners concerned about Second Amendment rights who want those rights to remain available to all.

I'm in my late 40s and have never owned a gun before myself, although my father did and I was exposed to guns as a child. Guns are therefore no mystery to me, and although I respect them, they don't scare me. I also have no interest in hunting, and after many years living in an urban area with a fairly high crime rate without problems, no serious fear of encountering violence I could not counter without a gun by simply avoiding dangerous places/times and exercising situational awareness.

I probably would not own a gun except for my concern that my right to choose to do so was under attack. My sense of this was probably heightened because I spent the last two decades in California before moving late last year to Nevada. Although I wasn't thrilled to spend several hundred dollars on a good, safe gun and a couple of hours a week minimum to attain and then maintain proficiency using it, I felt the time had arrived to assert my rights under the Second Amendment, lest by failing to do so my voice might not be heard by those who make, interpret, and enforce the laws.

Fortunately, in spite of the current president's views on guns, the tide is turning the other way. Looks to me like Heller, and the recent 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that incorporated it against the State of California, have confirmed that. :-)
 
Stepped into Big-5 the other day for a pair of hiking boots, but took a quick look at what was available in their firearms section. The shelves did look less bare than recently, only about half the spots were empty.
 
At my local shop, ARs are back in stock and the dealer said that guns are becoming more plentiful. Ammo on the other hand (he says) will take a few months more to get back to 'normal' (whatever that is :D).
 
My experience today at one of the local shops here in Hawaii mirrors mssurrey. ARs in plentiful stock, but the ammo shelves right below them were basically bare. They had some .40, some .22, and dribs and drabs of most everything except .45 ACP (which I was looking for). It's been that way for a couple of months, with them selling everything they can, but not being able to order much stock. They finally resorted to limiting purchases to 2 boxes of ammo per customer.

The owner is incredibly bitter about Obama's presence causing this drought, and I couldn't blame him. He was also very fearful of upcoming proposed legislation on the federal level to limit ammo production to only serial numbered registered ammo. He told me (finding out I was a reloader) that I should be incredibly scared, since if that legislation passes, all of my reloading equipment will be illegal.

We parted ways with him saying, "If they can't take our guns away, they'll get us by taking away our ammo."

Needless to say, I was a little angry thinking about it. The whole reloading industry and a large portion of the shooting public will be decimated should this come to pass.:mad:
 
I'm seeing a pretty decent selection of handguns, but ammo at the Walmart is still scarce in the Atlanta area.

Ben
 
Ammo will have to dropping off the shelves and stacked in cases in the hallways before retailers will drop those prices.

As far as gun prices,you better be in the gun store the day a great price is posted on a gun for sale because it will be gone.

Almost everything I see starts at $440 up for new now.

If you are like me ,you just take a break in shooting or buying shooting stuff alot.

I don't like paying extortion prices.
 
Seeing a few more guns in some of the shops around here but ammo is still almost non existant except for shot gun shells and some rifle calibers. If you want handgun ammo you have to be very, very lucky and walk in to a store just after the shelves have been stocked.
 
The local shops around here are almost reaching normal handgun/black rifle levels. They commented that a lot of goobers who were buying guns as investments were trying to sell them on consignment for break even or losses in some cases.

Academy has plenty of Glocks again and I'm beginning to see ammo back on the shelves, though it is still moving fast.

I am still struggling to find powder and primers.

I think the peak has been reached and the buying frenzy is winding down. I have been putting back money every paycheck to take advantage of all the 7.62x39 and .223 that should be plentiful in the next couple of months.
 
What shortage? I bought a couple of like new looking cz-82's from cdnn and a bunch of 9x18 mak fmj and hp's for a decent price and have been happily plinking away!

Although have to admit it would be nice to be able to buy some ammo for my 45 without feeling like I'm being robbed.
 
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