sweeeeeet...!!! the only two HK's i have are in .308 but, my next one will be in .45 --- 8^) enjoy.
Posted on 12/31/2005 8:50:14 AM PST by skyman
Gun sales shoot up on holidays
By Glen Warchol The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune
Gun sales shoot up on holidays By Glen Warchol The Salt Lake Tribune
'Tis the season of peace, good will, to be jolly and, in the case of Utah gun shops, to sell 12,728 guns. And counting . . . Utah will break previous annual gun sales records for the year and for the holiday season, when firearm sales are traditionally hotter than, well - a Saturday night special.
Sales have been inching up nearly every year, reaching this year's record of nearly 72,000 rifles, shotguns, pistols and revolvers sold. That's 10 percent over 2004's 65,222. December sales - guns apparently make great gifts - are up 17 percent over the same period last year with two buying days remaining in the year. Gun purchase figures are based on background checks run on buyers by the Utah Bureau of Criminal Identification. (Guns sold by private individuals do not require background checks.) "Sales have been going extremely well," said Sterling Morris, manager at Ogden's Impact Arms. "Over the past two, three weeks, we've been selling 20 or 30 a day."
Although Morris says most holiday firearms shoppers are "wives buying for husbands. We do see some first-time guns being bought for kids." Impact's hottest seller has been the Benelli Nova pump shotgun, sleek in black or camouflage at $300 and $350, respectively.
Joyce Carter, manager of the firearms section of BCI, says most guns sold are long guns, that is shotguns and rifles. About a third of sales are of handguns. She attributes part of this year's sales jump to the August opening of Cabela's sporting megastore in Lehi. Cabela's 150,000-square-foot
showroom includes animal displays, aquariums and dog kennels, thousands of firearms and accessories, and draws customers regionally. "But Cabela's doesn't account for all these sales," Carter says. "I think we have a lot of sportsmen out there and it's a good time of year to buy a new firearm," says Lenny Rees, Hunter Education coordinator for the Department of Wildlife Resources.
Utah's increase would fly in the face of a downward trend in hunting and gun-sport participation in recent years, which researchers attribute to the competition for young people's time of nongun outdoor sports, television and video games. "Utah's hunting license and permit sales are stable," Rees says.
"In 2004, we actually had a slight increase in youth hunting licenses." Impact has sold many novice shooters their first firearms in the last year, Morris says, "If shooting is on a decline, I'm not seeing it." --- The trend of increased gun sales in December was first identified by University of Utah journalism student Jay Rogers in statistical records he obtained from the state.
For Christmas, I bought myself a Remington 870P 12-gauge shotgun. I was feeling nostalgic, so I ordered #4899, with a walnut stock, blued receiver, and an 18-inch barrel with bead sight.
Wow. I want one.
Bought my kids a .22/410 combo-sweet little thing that swaps barrels-took them to the range today.
The side benefit was that I think it tighten up the ex wife's jaws a bit
Kids love it and had a good time
sweeeeeet...!!! the only two HK's i have are in .308 but, my next one will be in .45 --- 8^) enjoy.
I got a Remington 870 for Christmas! (and a shotshell reloader - all I had was the rifle/pistol progressive.)
The little birdies had better look out!
My wife got me a nice Springfield XD 9mm for Christmas. As she knows nothing about guns, I picked it out, bought it and brought it home. Sweet! (both she and the pistol)
File a complaint with your states Medical Board.
This kind of crap has got to stop, and you have a chance to do your part from behind a keyboard.
Good luck.
for me it was a pre-christmas purchase of a used Weatherby Vanguard in .243 Winchester.
Post Christmas I plan on buying from a friend a break top S&W double action pocket pistol from around 1896 in .38 S&W caliber.
Do you have a link to that? I looked through the SAS website, but couldn't find anything like it.
The Cabela's in Hamburg Pennsylvania did good this year. I don't know the numbers but a slaesclerk I talked to yesterday said it was the first slow day of the season.
Sales must have picked up during the day. My husband and I were there last night just before closing and the sales guy said they broke a record for gun sales yesterday.
No--I guess we don't have a link to it. All I have are hard copies. It's a two-sided tri-fold. We've had it for a long time. I will have to get with our data-base queen and see if she can put it up on the site.
I've the link to the Physician Questionnaire in Post #53
Thank you! I have an appointment with a new doctor in a couple weeks. I hope I won't need that form, but it can't hurt to be prepared. Thanks again.
You're most welcome. Happy New Year!
And back atcha
204 is a very flat shooting tack driver. I selected a Savage 12VLP in 204 Ruger. Almost benchrest repeatability out of the box. A 32 gr at 4200 fps whacks a squirrel just fine.
Thanks--I was about to ping you! As always, you're ahead of me--LOL!
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