you wonder why ammo and guns are going up.

[rojawe]

NRA: Obama's election spawns 'gun run'
Chad Groening and Jody Brown - OneNewsNow - 11/11/2008 6:00:00 AM

The National Rifle Association predicts the election of Barack Obama is going to pose a serious threat to the Second Amendment rights of American citizens.


 


Numerous reports around the U.S. indicate that citizens have been racing to purchase both guns and ammunition before Obama takes office next year. On Election Day, a Cheyenne, Wyoming, gun store set a one-day sales record -- then broke that record the next day. The Franklin Gun Shop outside Nashville sold more than 70 guns on Election Day. It was the biggest sales day since opening its doors eight years ago.
 
The day after Obama was elected, the owner of a shop outside Salt Lake City sold nine assault weapons -- and another gun store owner in Fort Worth reported sales of $101,000 in merchandise, shattering its single-day sales record.
 
NRA spokewoman Rachel Parsons has a theory on the gun run. It is quite apparent, she says, that people are concerned that Obama truly has had a radical record of opposition to the Second Amendment.
 
"They're concerned about their Second Amendment rights, and they're purchasing firearms...maybe while they still have the chance," she conjectures. "They know that it's very likely that when president-elect Obama gets into the White House, he and those who he has appointed to leadership, who are also anti-gun, may indeed attack the Second Amendment."
 
During the campaign, the NRA ran advertisements saying Obama "would be the most anti-gun president in American history." And the president-elect's voting record on gun rights, says Parson, backs that up.
 
"He's supported gun bans, ammunition bans. He's supported a tax increase on guns and ammunition. He has voted against self-defense in the home when he was in the Illinois State Senate," she emphasizes. "Over and over, Barack Obama has voted against the Second Amendment."
 
The NRA spokeswoman suggests it is likely those votes will follow him into the White House. So she says it will take a grassroots effort by those who support the Constitution to prevent president-elect Obama from destroying Americans' Second Amendment rights.


 

[TAB]

Its all supply and demand...  low supply, huge demand.


I remember when CA 1st emplemented the safe handling demo crap( working at a FFL at the time)   the last day to buy a hand gun was dec 20th.    We sold 200 some odd hand guns that day...  we had a line around the block.   

[Pathfinder]

Its all supply and demand...  low supply, huge demand.


I remember when CA 1st emplemented the safe handling demo crap( working at a FFL at the time)   the last day to buy a hand gun was dec 20th.    We sold 200 some odd hand guns that day...  we had a line around the block.   

At the risk of sounding like Tom, and possibly getting booted from this forum, I am done putting up with you - avatars or no.

TAB you are an idiot! It is NOT supply and demand, it is b-ho and his proven history of gun-grabbing and his neo socialist (read neo-communist) politics, and the very real threat that he will destroy what little is left of this country's Constitution in his drive to make us just another 3rd world country kowtowing to the UN.

And if he doesn't (and he doesn't have to) Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer and the other left coast idiots (plus assorted others across the country) will do the heavy lifting for him, and all he has to do is sign the bills looking "presidential" and talking about "common sense this and that".

The Three M's (Michael, Marshal and M'ette) - and anyone who may have been offended - please forgive my profanity. This guy is a bridge short of a site troll.

[blackwolfe]

There have been any number of idiots and bimbos on TV and radio (I refuse to call it news) saying anything from that it's anything from people fearful because the economy is in the tank, to a dem politician saying the buying frenzy is being orchestrated by the NRA and gun shop owners.  A few have actually said the fear is bHo will take are guns.  I wonder if some of these "news" speakers and politicians have bothered to read any blogs or forums to see what we really think.

[TAB]

At the risk of sounding like Tom, and possibly getting booted from this forum, I am done putting up with you - avatars or no.

TAB you are an idiot! It is NOT supply and demand, it is b-ho and his proven history of gun-grabbing and his neo socialist (read neo-communist) politics, and the very real threat that he will destroy what little is left of this country's Constitution in his drive to make us just another 3rd world country kowtowing to the UN.

And if he doesn't (and he doesn't have to) Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer and the other left coast idiots (plus assorted others across the country) will do the heavy lifting for him, and all he has to do is sign the bills looking "presidential" and talking about "common sense this and that".

The Three M's (Michael, Marshal and M'ette) - and anyone who may have been offended - please forgive my profanity. This guy is a bridge short of a site troll.

do you know what supply and demand is?   The supply has stayed static... the demand has increased... econ 101... when supply stays static and demand increases costs go up.

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[m25operator]

It is NOT supply and demand, it is b-ho and his proven history of gun-grabbing and his neo socialist (read neo-communist) politics, and the very real threat that he will destroy what little is left of this country's Constitution in his drive to make us just another 3rd world country kowtowing to the UN.

And if he doesn't (and he doesn't have to) Pelosi, Feinstein, Boxer and the other left coast idiots (plus assorted others across the country) will do the heavy lifting for him, and all he has to do is sign the bills looking "presidential" and talking about "common sense this and that".

I agree with Path on this. And Obama's very real interest in executive orders should worry everyone, he wants to know or try what he can do now, PERSONALLY, WITH THE STROKE OF A PIN. Executive order is one of the presidents only true powers. From my dwindling memory, that has to do with foreign trade and treaty. No congressional approval needed. War powers act included.

Supply has not been low since the sunset of the AWB, until 6 months ago, and it wasn't real bad until a week or two  ago. Millions of Ar's and Ak's have been sold in the last several years, and it is up by only 15% in the last few weeks, of course that is huge. Now as of 2 weeks ago, the demand is huge, unlike 86 and 92, the suppliers were ready. And they are still pumping them out, since Stag is one of the largest suppliers of upper and lower receivers, for everyone, it falls on them and shame on the builders who sublet to one manufacturer however good,  for supply. If you want a lower NOW, go ahead and go to sundevil, or some of the individual lower makers, who make a superior product right here at home and already had premium prices for premium parts. I bet they have not gone up that much.

[HAWKFISH]

I agree with Pathfinder. This supply and demand thing doesn't apply to this. And yes I know about supply and demand and econ. 101.. blah blah.. The reason why ammo and guns are going up are Obama, fear of an AWB, and loss of gun rights in general. That's common "gun" sense 101. Especially, if one is truely a gunlover and knows what is going on in most of America and not some "crazy liberal-non-representative of the rest of the country part- like California for example. I have been to various gunstores and gunshows in the last two weeks and everyone I've talked to says the same thing. They are buying any and everything they can now (mostly Ak's/AR's/ Handguns/Ammo) because they think they won't be able to get them later when Obama is president. It's that simple. 

[TAB]

I agree with Pathfinder. This supply and demand thing doesn't apply to this. And yes I know about supply and demand and econ. 101.. blah blah.. The reason why ammo and guns are going up are Obama, fear of an AWB, and loss of gun rights in general. That's common "gun" sense 101. Especially, if one is truely a gunlover and knows what is going on in most of America and not some "crazy liberal-non-representative of the rest of the country part- like California for example. I have been to various gunstores and gunshows in the last two weeks and everyone I've talked to says the same thing. They are buying any and everything they can now (mostly Ak's/AR's/ Handguns/Ammo) because they think they won't be able to get them later when Obama is president. It's that simple. 

which has increased demand...  we don't know if there is going to be another AWB or not... that is up to congress, not Obama.  The worst obama can do on his own is stop imports of guns and ammo.

[tombogan03884]

See TAB, I'm not the only one who thinks your an a$$hole. 
Love to hear the Chiefs version of your accident. 

[jaybet]

Well, maybe you're right about TAB, but ammo was skyrocketing before Obama was the candidate....remember?

This buying frenzy is due to his election and his choices of obviously gun grabbing helpers. But the ammo was going up anyway because of (you may recall all of this) the prices of metals going through the roof, the WARS sucking up production, etc. etc.
The cost of the guns are going up because they can't keep them on the shelves. Sorry...that is "supply and demand".