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.-
Hopefully all the guys defending them will make up for those of us who will never buy from the rip-offs.
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.
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.
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.”
You might want to consider that unlike most mil based rifle calibrate, like 308, 30-06 is quite available.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I bought a kimber from Buds for $1140; they were only source. Bought a rock Island for $425 from local gun shop, Rock Island shoots way better than KImber, no joke. Moral: No more guns from Buds, just from LGS.
buy low, sell high - that’s Capitalism!
Right on
haha - that’s funny, and I needed a laff. thanx
>>Nows the time to be building your BOB, potassium iodide tablets, etc.
And body armor. You’re a daisy if you don’t.
I agree! Even if you are just fighting the LIVs when the entitlements get cut, a good set of body armor with helmet and faceshield is worth a million rounds of ammo that is stashed in the garage.
“There is no such thing as price gouging.”
I agree! It is like always, there is a market. If the prices do not rise in a tight market, then the limited supply will be very concentrated to the “first comers” and hoarders. I’d much prefer that the prices go up to prevent smaller concentrations of the ammo. My preference is that ammo is distributed as far and wide as is possible and the price escalation in a tight market help ensure that is what actually is occuring.
Of course at 6$ 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.
Definitely not. But I would give some to a friend in need, such as a neighbor requiring 9mm for CCW testing, etc.
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