Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?

[birdman]

Weirdly, I have been considering EBRs and pistols very little over the last month.
I have plenty of mags and ammo, and EBRs.
I did add a mag extension to an 870 that I have, just because I always wanted to and there is no demand pressure on shotgun magazine extensions (yet).
I spent about 20 hours of my free time researching scopes for long range shooting and ordered my first mildot scope and mildot calculator. Next item will probably be a wind meter.


There's still plenty of very useful stuff to be had out there if you consider 'assault weapons' to be the proverbial 'canary in the coal mine.'

2nd on the scope.
Also get a nice bipod.

As for wind meters...kestrel.  Period.

[brimic]

What scope did you order?

Swfa ss 10x40 mil/mil

[Zardozimo Oprah Bannedalas]

What kind of madmen are lining up at 4AM at the sporting goods store to raid the place of newly-delivered .22LR? Madness. I wanted more ammo for my AR conversion bolt (and lever gun), but there is none available. I actually found one place with .22 short, but that's it.

[Cliffh]

I can't understand the run on .22LR either.  The local Wal Mart got in two cases last Friday and sold out in less than 2 hours.  As far as I know, .22LR isn't on anyone's hit list.

[AJ Dual]

I can't understand the run on .22LR either.  The local Wal Mart got in two cases last Friday and sold out in less than 2 hours.  As far as I know, .22LR isn't on anyone's hit list.

A. Part of the "get whatever I can" mentality.

B. Stocking up on .22 LR for recreational purposes because they're thinking that everything else will be scarce or too expensive for several months to a year. (probably right)

[lee n. field]

I've still got a bunch of bulk .22, from '08 when that was the only thing available.

[AJ Dual]

I've still got a bunch of bulk .22, from '08 when that was the only thing available.

I've been buying a 500-555 carton whenever I could over the past year or so because even at the "new normal" it was mainly what I could afford,

And what little I could do because of learning my lesson from the '08 panic too.

[Monkeyleg]

I've got customers ordering Leupold and Bushnell scopes, and even that stuff is all gone.

[Fly320s]

I've got customers ordering Leupold and Bushnell scopes, and even that stuff is all gone.

How about moccasins? Are those still in stock?

[280plus]

I've got customers ordering Leupold and Bushnell scopes, and even that stuff is all gone.

Go out and get a bunch of softball size rocks. Then tie them to sticks and advertise them as "assault clubs".

[Monkeyleg]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Assault-Weapon-Cavemans-AR15-Assault-Rock-/160953713972?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_2&hash=item257996c534

[280plus]

Did you see the CURRENT BID!!??

[lee n. field]

Playing with the Lee Classic Turret, I plum ran myself out of cast lead .38 bullets.  It'll be a while before I can cast, so just for grins I check Midway to see what's on hand.

Status
Available 1
    In stock 1
Unavailable 24
    No backorder 24

Backing up to the main bulk handgun bullet page, 37 SKUs show as available (of which 29 are actually in stock, the rest are orderable or back-orderable).  116 are showing as unavailable, cannot be backordered.

(No need to point me to sources.  I will cast, once it starts to warm up in March, and I'm unlikely to shoot through much or any of what I have before then.)

[lee n. field]

Seen today:  Drako type AK Pistol thing.  $1295.

 Saiga converted to plain jane standard AK.  $1495

[Jamisjockey]

People are buying $900 AR15's 2 at a time at the local Academy stores and turning them around for $1500-$2000.

[AJ Dual]

These prices seem to have "fallen back" just a bit.

Probably because we're now over the hump of Obama's EO's, and finally deciding "it's dead" with Congress takes a lot longer, and has a fuzzy deadline to declare the gun control push as finished and failed.

http://hobnobblog.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/2013_Congressional_Calendar_web3.pdf

[drewtam]

We'll know for sure when the January data for FBI NICS finalizes. In normal times January sales plummet from December peaks. If January numbers are as high as I suspect, near November numbers of ~2M, then the whole supply chain will be empty until July regardless of the politics.

Due to the crazy sales this December, then I suspect the January sales would have to be below January normal for the supply chain to even begin to catch up. Normal would be ~1.5M.

For the first 2 weeks, from 12/31/2012 to 1/13/2013, the NICS has been completed ~1.1M times. So ~1.5M will be easily beat. I suspect the month will hit around ~2.2M +/-10%. This makes me conclude that supply chain and prices won't stabilize until very late in the year, maybe July or August.

[drewtam]

Let me clarify, the 2008 sales spike and ammo shortages didn't really affect my normal sources. But if 2008 was a painful situation for you, this gun run is at least 3x bigger.

I barely notices any problems in 2008, but today the walls are bare now.

So I expect my local market to be back to roughly normal by mid to next year. Your mileage may very.

[lee n. field]

Let me clarify, the 2008 sales spike and ammo shortages didn't really affect my normal sources. But if 2008 was a painful situation for you, this gun run is at least 3x bigger.

I barely notices any problems in 2008, but today the walls are bare now.

So I expect my local market to be back to roughly normal by mid to next year. Your mileage may very.

Same place I saw the insane prices on the converted Saiga and the AK pistol, had a generic GI type Rock Island 1911.  "Tell me about that."   "9mm, $550." 

I asked him about the same thing in .45.  He laughed, and said six months, maybe.

(<Scowl>.  I've got a co-worker wanting to buy my Bersa*.  I'll only sell if I can roll over into another .45.)

*(if the Ill-i-noise Statspoletzai can get their act together and get his FOID to him.  We've got 3 people at work who did their application the day after the election.  The law says 30 days, but...)

[Monkeyleg]

The panic buying is over. How do I know? Because one of my distributors got in some XD .45 magazines and Beretta 9000 magazines and I bought some to sell. As soon as I buy, people stop buying, or they start buying something else, like toaster ovens.

[280plus]

I feel your pain ML.

[Fly320s]

The panic buying is over. How do I know? Because one of my distributors got in some XD .45 magazines and Beretta 9000 magazines and I bought some to sell. As soon as I buy, people stop buying, or they start buying something else, like toaster ovens.

If you get some XDm 9mm mags let me know. My brother needs some.

[seeker_two]

If you get some XDm 9mm mags let me know. My brother needs some.

Same here....esp. the 13rd compact mags....

[birdman]

Same here....esp. the 13rd compact mags....

Let me know if you get xd9, xdm40, 1911, g21,...hell, what do you have?

[Monkeyleg]

Right now the distributors are out of all handgun mags, and all rifle mags except the three or five-shot mags for Brownings and things like that.