Any signs of a new run on gun purchases yet?

[kgbsquirrel]

Just went down to The Firing Line in Aurora, CO. Their AR section was bare. Their semi-auto consignment racks were bare. The case that contained their pocket pistols was nearly empty an there were a great many gaps in the full-sized pistol cases. Also the magazine bins had been ravaged, as expected.

[makattak]

I REALLY want an AR-57. Also a PS90.

I could probably stretch our finances a little to get the AR, lower, etc...

However, given how nuts everything is right now, I'm going to take a different tack:

I'm going to purchase more ammo for my Garand, my Mosin, and more supplies for reloading my 6.8 SPC. Maybe a few more mags for the 6.8.

Shore up what I have rather than try to expand and then deal with not enough ammo for many guns if the focus of this attack is on the ammo, rather than the guns.

[41magsnub]

I was at my LGS around 3PM yesterday buying a lower and it was a complete zoo.  I was there all of 30 minutes and watched 8 AR-15's and 1 su-16 go out the door.  They were complaining about NICS checks being slow and when they finally would get through they would batch about 10 sales with the rep on the phone.  The counter guy almost cried with happiness when I had my CCW and he could skip NICS for my lower.

They did have a lot of stock left, they had just taken a big shipment of DPMS 16" carbines the week before.  They also had a huge bin of USGI magazines. 

[lee n. field]

 They were complaining about NICS checks being slow and when they finally would get through they would batch about 10 sales with the rep on the phone.  

Slow?  I'm surprised the little 486 box that has to be what they run that on didn't totally melt down from the load.

[Brad Johnson]

Run on guns, mags, and ammo... confirmed.

During lunch I went by the gun shop where I worked earlier this year.  He usually keeps 75-100 AR platforms in stock.  Today he had six.  Lowers?  Less than a dozen.  XM855 and 193 5.56 ammo?  None.  AR mags?  Nada.  Keep in mind that he buys P-Mags by the hundreds and 5.56 in multiple-pallet shipments.  The ammo and mags he's sold in the last week represents about two regular months worth of product.

They said yesterday was the biggest day in the history of the store.  They had people walking buying three and four ARs at a time with no concern about brand or accessories, just grabbing the first ones they came to on the rack.

Oh, those six ARs I mentioned being on the rack?  Two customers were filling out paperwork on them when I left.  He expects to be completely sold out by the end of the day.

Brad

[just Warren]

Much of the spike in gun, ammo and accessory sales could be just newbies finally getting into the game but there may be an even deeper level of activity going on.  

So is there any way to get even a casual sense of if there has been an increase in the sale of how-to-build guns\make ammo books, milling equipment,  raw materials like billets of aluminum or steel (I would also include basic reloading supplies) etc? Because that would show a clearer understanding of what may be about to happen. And therefore what needs to happen.

[kgbsquirrel]

So, forgot to mention, yesterday at closing time the guys at the local shop near me stated the NICS wait, on the automated computer system, was approaching 28 hours.

[Cliffh]

While I really shouldn't, I'm seriously considering buying something in either 5.56 or .223.  Will have to wait until after Christmas unfortunately, sure hope there's something available then....

I've wanted one for decades, this seems like the best time to get one while it's still possible.

[Fly320s]

So, forgot to mention, yesterday at closing time the guys at the local shop near me stated the NICS wait, on the automated computer system, was approaching 28 hours.

28 hours? Twenty-eight? !!!

[Fly320s]

While I really shouldn't, I'm seriously considering buying something in either 5.56 or .223.  Will have to wait until after Christmas unfortunately, sure hope there's something available then....

I've wanted one for decades, this seems like the best time to get one while it's still possible.

If those are your choices, go with the 5.56 if you can. You can run .223 in 5.56, but you shouldn't run 5.56 in .223.

[Jamisjockey]

Yeah I was hoping to get more mags.....not so much!

[birdman]

I am so glad I made my last big gun order a month ago, and a big ammo order early last week, I think I could resell and make like $2k in a weeks worth of "work".

[Cliffh]

If those are your choices, go with the 5.56 if you can. You can run .223 in 5.56, but you shouldn't run 5.56 in .223.

Good to know.  Thanks!

[Nick1911]

While I really shouldn't, I'm seriously considering buying something in either 5.56 or .223.  Will have to wait until after Christmas unfortunately, sure hope there's something available then....

I've wanted one for decades, this seems like the best time to get one while it's still possible.

I'm kind of in the same camp.  At a bare minimum I feel the sudden urge to buy up a bunch of standard cap mags for the guns I already have.

[bedlamite]

http://www.brownells.com/magazines/rifle-magazines/magazines/ar-15-m16-pmag-polymer-magazine-10-pak-prod42583.aspx

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[Frank Castle]

3 mag for $150.00


http://www.ebay.com/itm/3-Magpul-Black-PMAG-30rd-Ar-15-magazine-/321044571214?

2 mag , 15 bids $255.00  

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Two-Magpul-PMAG-30-Black-US-Made-New-/290833624436?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item43b708ed74


I think i need to set a e-gay account !!!

[280plus]

Not so gay anymore eh? 

[kgbsquirrel]

Not so gay anymore eh? 

Oh no, it's still gay. But he's just "experimenting."

[mtnbkr]

Oh no, it's still gay. But he's just "experimenting."

He's "prison gay".

Chris

[bedlamite]

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[209]

I noticed a lack of ammo before this month in specific calibers/grains.  It's pretty much totally gone now.  Haven't checked on mags and such yet.

[AJ Dual]

To think I felt bad about some of the mags I'm getting for Christmas were "overpriced" by $4-5 because my immediate family do it all through Amazon...

[Scout26]

Ammo case at the Wal-mart in Glen Ellyn, is pretty bare...

[lee n. field]

I dropped by a couple gun shops in the big city on my way to pick up #1 son coming in from the airport.  These are places I don't get to more than two or three times a year normally.

Both had good stock, and neither seemed to be excessively overpriced, compared to what gun related product normally is at retail around here. Both had EBRs and lots of handguns. Both were busy, but not insanely so.  That could be pre-Christmas shopping more than AWB panic.  One store had a "CCW sale" on small handguns.

The one place had half a box of Pmags, $19 each, "limit one". Ammo in that store was "limit two".  One counter guy said their inventory was down about 40%.

Oh, yeah.  Same place had a new in box Lee Classic Turret on their sale table, for $75.  I hemmed and hawed for a few minutes, then grabbed it.  Pricewise it looks like I did good.  Initial impression is that this thing is well constructed and very solid, Maybe now I can move away from the Pro 1000 for volume production.

[lupinus]

Was at the shop today. Not as much of a rush busy still busier then usual, even for this time of year. Plenty of rifles, shotguns, and handguns left but all out of anything remotely resembling an eeeeevil black rifle was gone except for three .22 AR's. Still had a reasonable amount of ammo except for .223.