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gunman42782

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Re: Record gun sales
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2012, 01:23:09 PM »
And probably half the a-holes buying guns didn't bother to go vote. 
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Re: Record gun sales
« Reply #11 on: December 19, 2012, 02:03:45 PM »
Or they voted D

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Re: Record gun sales
« Reply #12 on: December 19, 2012, 02:14:44 PM »
Or they voted D

I still can't believe how many gun owners punched this idiots card.....TWICE.

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Re: Record gun sales
« Reply #13 on: December 19, 2012, 06:53:21 PM »
Oh my lord, what a day!  NICS was blocking calls and telling caller to hang up and try again later - then they would drop your call. God help you if you got kicked over for a secondary check. I had one where I waited 2 hours on hold. When I got through the customer was delayed.

We had some very high end guns like POF, Black Rain, Christensen Arms, LRWS all running between $2200 and $3500. All of them went. We have some DPMS, DelTon and AKs left. All of the modern rifles will be gone tomorrow. We also sold every lower we had in stock. All the AR mags are gone.

I lost count of my sales but I'd guess near $20 grand.
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Re: Record gun sales
« Reply #14 on: December 19, 2012, 08:13:34 PM »
WOW ! And people are wondering why everything at Buds is "out of stock".
Heck, sounds like everything everywhere is out of stock or soon will be.

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Re: Record gun sales
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Re: Record gun sales
« Reply #15 on: December 19, 2012, 08:37:53 PM »
Word to the wise. At least at our shop, people have been so focused on rifles and mags they don't see thr next shoe to drop. The next rush will be standard capacity handgun mags over 10 rounds. Get to your local shop and get what you can. We are going to place a two mag limit on buyers. The owner has promised to sell at standard prices. We have stuff in the pipeline but we never anticipated this series of events.
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Re: Record gun sales
« Reply #16 on: December 20, 2012, 08:40:55 PM »
Well somehow the boss found more inventory. I didn't have time to ask where it came from. The owner has 3 shops so it could have come from the other shops. In three sales I sold $13,000 worth of guns. One guy picked up 2 POF AR-10s. Another guy picked up the Bushmaster ACR. The other big sale was a guy picked up a Loaded Springfield 1911, an AR, AK, Ruger  10/22, and a Henry US Servival .22.

We had a bunch of DPMS Sporticals and various AKs. We told people we weren't able to do normal sales discussions. They were instructed that we had a limit of 2 ARs or AKs per person and to get them off the wall and get in line.

NICS was worse today. We would batch the 4473 forms and call in a dozen at a time. Then we would complete the sales and start the routine all over again. Most people would wait 2 hours to get their sale completed.

I'm not sure if we will get more inventory tomorrow but I open the shop tomorrow morning unless the end of the world comes. Pretty soon all we'll have are handguns and standard hunting rifles.
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Re: Record gun sales
« Reply #17 on: December 20, 2012, 08:48:35 PM »
Oh, BTW, we have a used semi-auto Barrett used with scope for about $10 grand. PM me and I'll ask if we will ship it out. Shipping, handling and insurance extra.

I want to be the sales person just for bragging rights.
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Re: Record gun sales
« Reply #18 on: December 20, 2012, 11:22:45 PM »
Any thoughts about how many of these buyers are pro-2A and actually worried about future legislation as opposed to those scheming to make a profit down the road?


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Re: Record gun sales
« Reply #19 on: December 21, 2012, 01:25:42 AM »
The good news is, if they are still legal in a few years, there will be lots of these for sale super cheap.
I always break all the clay pigeons,  some times its even with lead.

 

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