Stop operating based on fear, with the assumption that the whole world is the same as the narrow view that you've chosen to maintain.
I don’t operate on fear, I have enough components to carry me for at least a couple years. In fact I have increased my shooting as I recently came back from a deployment and vowed to take a little more time to enjoy myself than what I did before. I’m also not peddling fear... I personally think if all veteran gun owners would sit back, relax, don’t stress if you don’t have 5k rounds stocked up, and realize this will pass... well we would all be better off.
What I *AM* saying is that I know, first hand, that activities described by the OP do in fact occur. As a matter of fact, this activity is one of the primary reasons why sales are limited to only a few boxes at most big box stores. To address this is not fear mongering, it’s merely recounting what I have personally seen. Yes, my experience is anecdotal. I know that not all, or most, or even very many, gun shops do this. I believe the majority to be businesses that would choose not to participate in an ethically questionable behavior. The fact remains, some of them do.
Another discussion entirely is whether it is ethically wrong for a gun shop buying out cabelas, effectively taking inexpensive (relatively, at least) stock away from consumers, to resale at much higher prices. There is no law against it that I know of, and I personally don’t believe it’s ethically wrong. I believe it’s bad optics, and many others would question those ethics. Mostly because of the optics, I would like to say I would chose NOT to do that if I ran a gun store, but you know if times were tight and it kept the doors open...
For the guys who aren’t a gun shop owner that go out and buy up all the .22lr at academy trying to flip it on armslist because they’ve made a few good flips, I feel differently. They are “crisis” opportunists. I do not care for that.
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