“Under President Donald Trump, a strong supporter of the Second Amendment, gun sales did not spike in the weeks since the Las Vegas mass shooting, according to a BuzzFeed News analysis. This suggests that spikes after other recent prominent mass shootings were driven mainly by fear of new gun laws after President Barack Obama called for new controls. It seems there is some truth to one pundit’s claim that Obama was ‘the best gun salesman in America.'” In fact . . .
gun sales have slumped. Not crashed. Slumped. From previous historic highs. Driven by the prospect of a HIllary Clinton victory. Not mass shootings. Anyway, as we reported earlier this year, profitability is the real challenge facing American gunmakers. The market is flooded with product, driving prices down to historic lows.
You can now buy a new Remington pistol for less than a Hi-Point. If you want to scratch that AR itch and don’t have a lot of scratch, there’s a farrago of perfectly fine firearms for sale well under $800.
In short, it’s a buyer’s market. So, are you buying? When was the last time you bought a gun? When might be the next time?
If you swallowed any of them you could asphyxiate so must mean ban all food?
I’ve been waiting on a CZ 97BD since February. I’ll be buying an heirloom Belgian Browning A5 of my grandfathers and a SxS for bird hunting this year. Plus anything else that catches my fancy when I have cash in my pocket.
“You can now buy a new Remington pistol for less than a Hi-Point.”
There’s a reason for that: The Hi-Point actually works.
Three weeks ago.
Fulfilled my decade-old dream of owning an M1 Garand two days before leaving for MCT back in September. Haven’t fired it yet, but at least I have one.
My last purchase was my Ruger 22/45 Lite Mark IV.
I don’t need any more firearms. I have satisfied my needs and most of my wants.
I do peruse my local gun exchange, just in case. The prices I see are still too high for me to bite, though.
Last Wednesday. HK P30SK. Next one? Hard to say – next time I see something I want, discounted deeply.
Haven’t acquired any new toys since March. Picked up a M&P 15/22 then. Great training rifle for the Misses. Working her way up to a AR. Going to a Gun Show next weekend with a pocket full of cash. Never know what may catch my eye. Being a Gunaholic an all. One is to many and 100 is not enough. Keep Your Powder Dry…
Two weeks ago….a Kel-Tec KSG Bullpup Shotgun. The next time? Whenever I see something that I really want, and the price is right.
“Question of the Day: When Was the Last Time You Bought a Gun?”
It’s been quite a while…there’s no “need” to rush…
I just bought a Savage Stealth in 6.5 Creedmoor. I pulled the carbine stock and added the XLR Tactical Lite buttstock. It shoots great!
My next purchase, not sure. I’m thinking two more flats from HMG and the small bits to build my CETME L/LV/LC kits.
Good call on the XLR chassis. I got one for my savage last year.
Last gun bought? I honestly don’t remember.
Finally, an EDC “pocket dump” that’s believable…
“I’m going to ask you one last time – Do you think my sister is more attractive than me?”
Not happening, Cupcake.
Ammunition and magazines only. Sold 2 recently to get down to what I need.
Last gun purchase was a couple of months ago when I came across an Arsenal SLR95 milled AKM at a local gunstore that wasn’t putting an insane markup on it. Before that were a pair of VEPRs in 5.56 and 5.45, just after the sanctions hit but before the prices went through the roof.
D’oh!!! Wait. I also grabbed a new Ruger MKIV Tactical at a gunshow last month. And 4 spare magazines since they had 2 packs at prices comparable to the reputable internet resellers. Yeah, I could’ve saved $5, but I had them in hand, so I don’t mind the modest impatience tax. 😀
You’re getting WAY too TECHNICAL for me, and probably for the rest of the readers on this forum.
I truly appreciate your post, but just can’t understand it.
fag
Just like anything else, the worst time to purchase is when you’re in NEED. Like your car broke down, and you have no choice but to pay whatever it takes to replace it.
Same with houses and even an old pair of shoes or a haircut. Point is: The BEST time to buy, is when you really DON’T NEED IT.
I’ve got a really conservative cache of handguns that I’ve acquired in the last 10 years. Some bought at market prices (at the time), others were inherited, and still another was a manufacture’s special that’s actually become one of my favorites.
I won’t buy a gun just because it’s “Cheap” or “Undervalued” at an Estate Sale,,, Unless it’s on my radar list of something I’d like to acquire.
you idiot
Last weekend. Glock 27. Good deals to be had on .40’s while the lemmings head for the cliffs.
September. ..Browning buckmark for my wife…next a savage in 243 for her….after that, a savage 99 for me….
In the past thirty days I have bought:
An unfired Romanian Sar 3
A milled Mak90
A cherry NDM86 with all original accessories.
You bet it’s a buyer’s market!
It’s actually been a few years. But then again I’ve been on a fixed income since a brain tumor took me out of trucking. so… yeah. :/
But if nothing else it has given me more of a reason to look more into my old hobby of homemade guns. |3
Last friday…a CZ 2075 RAMI D. In shipment to my FFL as we speak. That will be the 4th gun I’ve purchased this year and probably the last for 2017…probably.
3 last month. I’m embarrassed to say what, specifically, but a rifle, a pistol, and a “pistol”.
It sounds like it’s time for an TTAG article / shootout review comparing different night vision solutions.
She is a Congresswoman not a Senator.
February in Australia .223 Thompson Centre.
March in USA 30-06
Plus another scope since I got home.
I ordered one after seeing it utterly destroy the Sig P226 Legion on the torture/elemental test done by MAC channel on YouTube (Rex Zero is still the undisputed champ for this testing and Sig fanboys have come up with every excuse possible as to why their $1300 Legion lost which is completely laughable) and it’s every bit as incredible as it’s made out to be. Fit and finish are superb, accuracy is incredible as is reliability and extra mags are only $25. They now offer tritium sights, they have always offered much better G-10 grips in three different colors, Black, FDE and Mascus Green and holster options are growing as this undiscovered gem is becoming more and more popular. The compact and combat version (thread barrel, suppressor height sights higher capacity mags) have been available for a while now and the stainless version is out now as well. The next to arrive will be the Rex Alpha which is a competition gun and is just plain badass looking with front fiber optic and rear adjustable target sights, longer barrel, compensator cuts on the slide, extended beavertail and higher capacity mags. This gun is going strong and will only grow in and continue to convert people to a premium handgun for only a little more than half the price of any P22 series Sig with all the features of a Sig plus more. It’s a win win but you will still hear the cries of the Sig fanboys and their excuses as to why this Slovenian companies firearms are putting theirs to shame. Arex Rex Zero is here to stay.
“they have always offered much better G-10 grips”
Negative. At the time this review was written those grips did not exist. They later came out with a Hogue G-10 grip version of the pistol but those grip panels weren’t available for sale separately. Now new grip panels are available on their own. Which is great! Those cheapo, slick plastic grips were one of my bigger gripes about the gun. Of course, the magazine release issue plagues me regardless. I’m sure the Alpha will have a taller mag release that stands prouder of the frame, but the tactical version w/ threaded barrel and such doesn’t, nor does the compact, and I still have a hard time depressing the release with my thumb without shifting my grip.
6 weeks ago. My starter Ar25. S&W sport II for $439 new. Have not seen a better deal on a comparable rifle to date.
First reports, 12-15 ‘down’…
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-11-05/live-feed-witnesses-say-15-people-are-down-after-gunman-opens-fire-texas-church
https://twitter.com/MaxMasseyTV
“Man who opened fire in Sutherland Springs church now dead, police say”
https://www.ksat.com/news/shooting-sutherland-springs-church-gunfire-mass-shooting-airlife
How long for the police to figure out the time line and what the shooters reasons were?
They already know. He was a white, right wing, NRA member, who voted for Trump, and is a representative of all gun owners and regular Americans and therefore “we” need more gun control. /sarc
The real question is how long will it take for the bloody-shirt waving to begin?
I’m in the process of buying my first gun since I was married, and now separated. That’s over 10 years. However the approval got lost in the mail and now I’m jumping through the process hoops to get another approval sent.
This one is for a Ruger Scout in .223. I’m also keeping my eyes out for a M17 Enfield and a 1903 (preferably A3) Springfield.
I picked up a 12 gauge coach gun in June and I’ll be snagging a pair of Vaqueros on Wednesday. I want to shoot SASS next year, if the lord is willin’ and the crick don’t rise. Hey, at 70 I won’t take anything for granted.
I will never understand how people have a pimped out Glockenturd, all that expensive gear, and then carry a cheap POS knife like a CRKT.
The church leader ban lawfull carry ?? Should face felony charges and root in hell on same place as the shooter !!
Yes I go to a small Baptist church of the same size in a more rural area.
We have arm members that act as security.
I suspect more members well be after this.
I don’t think that some one returned fire and he left right away with that high of body count
“Gun Control Advocates Waste No Time in Calling for More 2A Restrictions After Sutherland Springs Church Shooting”
Well of course not, would you expect any less…??? The bodies aren’t even cold yet, and the ghouls are already calling…the left makes me want to puke…
Apparently, the shooter, Devin Patrick Kelley, received a dishonorable discharge. Possession of a firearm with a DD is already illegal.
Pray for victims & families and hope the murder is burning in hell
Reports are that he was a dishonorably discharged Air force veteran.
As a Muslim American, I want to sincerely apologize for the shooting by the whacked out fringe. They do not represent us… wait… it was a white dude? And not a guy that watched ISIS videos and converted last week?
Never mind then, carry on…
poor bear!
Idk it stopped taking me to the page where you can enter maybe a week ago. Maybe try one of the older posts?
But yeah I’ve given up.
NO MORE TEASING, I BEG YOU!!!
Just hold the damn drawing so I can lose and get back on with my sad life!!! 🤠
This is not about “assault rifles”, what this is really about is control. Go do some reading about whom has been pushing gun legislation for decades. Go read about whom pushed the 1968 NFA and has been behind every piece of legislation since. You think its just a conspiracy theory but its fact. The same people that want gun control are the same people who want immigration amnesty and open borders.
What its really about is CONTROL. Them CONTROLLING YOU. Get it. Its not about violence. Right now they can only do so much because at some point they might get severe blowback. Once there are no guns watch the gloves really come off. They want the country to become a liberal utopia like the UK where everything is illegal and you have no say in anything they do. We are almost at that point now – they ram taxes down our throats whether we want them or not, pass legislation that no one wants yet it continues to happen.
You can bet your sweet bippy that if they get control of one of the houses they are going to keep this going. You watch and see. Disarming the population is a long term goal of the communists and socialists. And thats exactly what these people are, never forget it.
I’ve got a government to support.
Isn’t he the traitor Clinton wrote a personal letter to thanking him for selling out American rights and letting him get the AWB passed?