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Price Gouging on Firearms and Ammunition During a Constitutional Crisis
YouTube.com ^ | 4-18-2013 | Gunblast.com

Posted on 04/18/2013 6:35:16 PM PDT by servo1969

Jeff Quinn ( http://www.gunblast.com ) discusses widespread price-gouging of guns and ammunition by unscrupulous dealers.

-I've heard of people charging $70 for brick of .22lr and actin' like they were doing someone a favor.-

-I've heard of 15 guys standing in line at 7:00am in Wal-Mart and buyin' 3 boxes of ammo apiece. Then they all go outside and put the ammo in the same vehicle. They're buyin' for some dealer who's gonna jack it up for 4 times what they paid.-

-You walk into some place and some guy wants to charge you $2000 for a $800 AR, well, what you say to him is your business but I can guarantee you I will never spend a single cent in that place.-

-Gun and ammo manufacturers have not raised their prices 400%. It's the dealers who have been taking advantage of their customers during this Constitutional Crisis. There are some dealers who have not raised their prices this whole time. It's a free market, sure. But the market will return to normal and, when it does, remember the folks who did you right and the folks who tried to stick it to you. Those places that did good by their customers are where you need to be spending your money in the future.-


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; gunblast; guncontrol; obama; secondamendment; tennessee
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To: FunkyZero
This episode did one thing only: it showed you who was in it for the money only and who was in it for a balance of money AND customer service. The money only bastards like Cheaper than Dirt and the local a-holes at Elmore's Firearms or Bradis Guns in Indianapolis, and most others can kiss my shiny metal a$$. On the other hand, I'm now a 100%, loyal and committed Midway customer for life. Like the guy in the video says, show your support where it is deserved and let the rest of them flounder and enjoy that last fistful of dollars they got from desperate folks, because they won't be getting anymore from me and I'm the one who's in it for the sport, not a one-time panic buy. The only time they will ever see me is when I go into their shop and use it for a showroom to buy from someone else.

Hopefully all the guys defending them will make up for those of us who will never buy from the rip-offs.

101 posted on 04/18/2013 8:08:24 PM PDT by ansel12 (The lefts most effective position-I'm libertarian on social issues, but conservative on economics.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet
I'm doing something similar can I ask which four ー I've focused on 12 gage, 410, .22, and .45. 30-30 or 30-06 were up for debate but put on hold due to finances.
102 posted on 04/18/2013 8:11:28 PM PDT by reed13k (For evil to triumph it is only necessary for good men to do nothing.)
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To: Tail Gunner John

We won big yesterday. Spanking them the way we did was victory on so many different levels and it is so utterly fitting that the day after our victory, today, is the anniversary of the Doolittle raids on Tokyo- April 18th, 1942. We spanked them. We showed them that we can spank them and that we can and will spank them again. This is a turning point.


103 posted on 04/18/2013 8:22:22 PM PDT by RC one (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: RetiredTexasVet
RetiredTexasVet said: "Not using too much for practice and will add to the stock when the shortage eventually ends."

You don't suggest that you are selling any ammo. You must value the ammo at a price higher than the market will pay.

Would you sell me a brick of .22lr for $1,000,000?

If you would pay me that price, I would certainly sell you some.

104 posted on 04/18/2013 8:38:43 PM PDT by William Tell
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To: Bryanw92

That’s right. I stocked up then and bought a box of thirty round Tapco from CTD about a year ago, @ $5.00 a ‘clip’ (heh heh heh).
Nows the time to be building your BOB, potassium iodide tablets, etc.
And body armor. You’re a daisy if you don’t.

“Tracers work both ways.”


105 posted on 04/18/2013 8:52:45 PM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: reed13k

You might want to consider that unlike most mil based rifle calibrate, like 308, 30-06 is quite available.


106 posted on 04/18/2013 9:12:18 PM PDT by Kommodor (Terrorist, Journalist or Democrat? I can't tell the difference.)
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To: SgtHooper

Back around 89, I was buying case after case of Q3131 white box for $179/thou; wifey was sure I had went off the deep end.
Haven’t bought any .556 since; haven’t run out, heck my grandkids won’t run out either. Same with 22LR, haven’t bought any since early 90’s and never will the rest of my days. That’s a secure feelin ya know. Same with mags, but I tell ya those Scar mags are sure spendy & rare too.


107 posted on 04/18/2013 9:26:34 PM PDT by Eska
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To: ansel12

My moral take is that I’ve seen how price controls and artificial supply limits hurt people well beyond high market prices.

If you’re selling what I want at a competitive price I’ll buy.

You’ll see a lot of other people think this way. The rest are socialists.


108 posted on 04/18/2013 9:34:37 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Making good people helpless doesnÂ’t make bad people harmless.)
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To: RC one
I have a few stags, really like the 6.8s more than .556's. They have a light weight 308 in development which will be put off for a year if they move South; hope they stay put. I got all my stags for 800-900 and they are a well built AR.

Just ordered a Ca compliant (I can change over for here in Alaska) S&W M&P10 308, 18 inch barrel, collapsible stock; 8.1 lb. $1414 They must be shipping them out in appreciable numbers.

109 posted on 04/18/2013 9:36:22 PM PDT by Eska
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To: ctdonath2

Yeah, when the discussion gets to those topics then I will agree with you, I’ve lived through price controls and artificial supply limits and that is about economic policies, not what I have been talking about here.


110 posted on 04/18/2013 9:39:11 PM PDT by ansel12 (The lefts most effective position-I'm libertarian on social issues, but conservative on economics.)
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To: Tail Gunner John

I bought a kimber from Buds for $1140; they were only source. Bought a rock Island for $425 from local gun shop, Rock Island shoots way better than KImber, no joke. Moral: No more guns from Buds, just from LGS.


111 posted on 04/18/2013 9:43:26 PM PDT by Eska
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

buy low, sell high - that’s Capitalism!

Right on


112 posted on 04/18/2013 11:39:28 PM PDT by Psiman (PS I am not a crackpot)
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To: donmeaker

haha - that’s funny, and I needed a laff. thanx


113 posted on 04/18/2013 11:44:10 PM PDT by Psiman (PS I am not a crackpot)
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To: tumblindice

>>Nows the time to be building your BOB, potassium iodide tablets, etc.
And body armor. You’re a daisy if you don’t.

I agree! Even if you are just fighting the LIVs when the entitlements get cut, a good set of body armor with helmet and faceshield is worth a million rounds of ammo that is stashed in the garage.


114 posted on 04/19/2013 4:48:53 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide

“There is no such thing as price gouging.”

I agree! It is like always, there is a market. If the prices do not rise in a tight market, then the limited supply will be very concentrated to the “first comers” and hoarders. I’d much prefer that the prices go up to prevent smaller concentrations of the ammo. My preference is that ammo is distributed as far and wide as is possible and the price escalation in a tight market help ensure that is what actually is occuring.


115 posted on 04/19/2013 7:17:35 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Graybeard58

Of course at 6$ a gallon they had gas to sell, whereas at 2$ a gallon, other stores were out.

With shortages, no matter the need, you don’t get the product, and you all sit and freeze in the dark.

With prices that are free to go up and down, the most critical (say ambulances?) can obtain product. Less critical purchases are postponed.

I would rather frequent a store that understood than, rather than one that didn’t.


116 posted on 04/19/2013 10:26:51 AM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: William Tell

Definitely not. But I would give some to a friend in need, such as a neighbor requiring 9mm for CCW testing, etc.


117 posted on 04/19/2013 6:25:14 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (The Team: Progressives, Margret Sanger, Josef Mengele and the Butcher of Philadelphia)
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