Gun sales continue to soar

[KillerFord1977]

Sales have not slowed down ...

US gun sales soar amid pandemic, social unrest, election fears

The number of first-time gun buyers has skyrocketed this year, driven in part by disturbing news about the coronavirus pandemic, social unrest over police killings of Black people and a potentially contested election that many fear could spark violence.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[Pitdogg2]

And it will not anytime soon.

 

[somorris]

Interesting article. Thanks for the link.

 

[Annihilator]

Thanks KF, read that article earlier today, good read.

 

[10mmLife]

For some reason since the whole covid pandemic I've been averaging a few new guns a month........................................come to think of it I was still buying the same amount before Covid....

Don't tell my wife....

 

[Annihilator]

For some reason since the whole covid pandemic I've been averaging a few new guns a month........................................come to think of it I was still buying the same amount before Covid....

Don't tell my wife....

Yea, but do “yeet cannons” count?.......

 

[RICKYs2]

The problem is you buy the gun and they sell you one box of ammo. That doesn't work for me

 

[Keystone19250]

For some reason since the whole covid pandemic I've been averaging a few new guns a month........................................come to think of it I was still buying the same amount before Covid....

Don't tell my wife....

To late, she now knows.

 

[Detonics]

Talking with my distributors, they still have no guns or ammo available and no idea when it will start flowing back in stock. In all the years I have never seen it this bad, and I don't expect it to get better in 2021 neither do the distributors or manufactures from what I'm told.

 

[Keystone19250]

Yea, but do “yeet cannons” count?.......

Better then your hard boiled egg guns.

 

[Detonics]

To late, she now knows.

 

[Keystone19250]

Sales have not slowed down ...

US gun sales soar amid pandemic, social unrest, election fears

The number of first-time gun buyers has skyrocketed this year, driven in part by disturbing news about the coronavirus pandemic, social unrest over police killings of Black people and a potentially contested election that many fear could spark violence.

www.foxbusiness.com

A ton of very good points made in that article. Thanks for sharing Killer.

 

[RICKYs2]

 

[benstt]

I wish it would slow down, so I could find ammo easier

 

[RICKYs2]

Ammo no problem. When I retired from the department I left behind a lot of ammo which was drop off to my house a week ago. In the lot of ammo I found two items that made my day. All this is old stock 10yrs+ 1000rds of 5.56 Winchester Q3131 and Speer 147gr 9mm ammo which is the best ammo on my HK MP5 with a silencers

 

[Rakiticus]

For some reason since the whole covid pandemic I've been averaging a few new guns a month........................................come to think of it I was still buying the same amount before Covid....

Don't tell my wife....

 

[10mmLife]

I've actually had a store offer to write me a phoney receipt before.

 

[Rakiticus]

The way it should always be. Lol

 

[jumpinjoe]

It's always been pretty much around here that if I can get a new gun into the house and into the gun room in a safe or on the rack, it's rare she will notice it ....... at least for some time, sometimes even a couple years. If/when she does notice, I just play shocked and surprised and say something like "Honey don't you remember a couple years ago when that buddy of mine was going to jail for shooting his wife and needed money, and I bought it from him for XXX hundred dollars? Surely you remember that honey, and how broken up I was about his predicament?

She rarely says anymore after that ..... I'm sure she's just deep in thought trying to remember the incident when I bought that gun.

Yeh, y'all know that's right ...... right?

 

[wmg1299]

My gun buying has slowed a bit since the start of the pandemic. I always chase deals, and the good deals started drying up a few months ago. The ammo shortage is also a major factor. I've been shooting my AK's and SKS more often these days because 7.62x39 was still widely available in my area and Russian steel was selling for about half of what most online retailers are charging for 9mm. It looks like even 7.62x39 is drying up now, and I'm tempted to really limit my shooting and hold onto most of the ammo I have.