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“I put in an order and it hasn’t shipped.” “My order may or may not have shipped but I can’t get a tracking number.” “No one’s answering the phones anywhere. Why can’t I get an answer?” “The website says there are things in inventory and then I find out that’s not true.”
I’ve been ready to address comments like these for a few days, and in a few dozen places. I don’t know if some of you mean to sound this way, but we are watching you show up to the supermarket 15 minutes before a CAT 5 hurricane and indignantly asking where all the water’s at. You’re rudely asking why nobody’s giving you an answer about where all the cans of soup are three days after an earthquake leveled every freeway in and out of California. We feel for you. But you can’t show up to Calguns with your “I want to talk to the manager" haircut and stage whisper “Oh my God, Karen, like, what the hell, you know? Who HIRES these people?”
This isn’t hyperbole: we have literally broken the industry supply chain. We’ve shattered the logistics capability of nearly every mag vendor in America. Even if a truck pulled up now to these businesses with 17 pallets of magazines, they aren't going anywhere until they follow their logistics procedures. And their logistics procedures are now toast.
Whatever your job, there are procedures in place that are based on dealing with the worst possible scenarios that you have historically dealt with. This circumstance, like the hurricane or earthquake I talked about a minute ago, is unimaginable. No one could prepare for something like this and still have a business. It’s just not the way business operates. If you prepared for something like this, you would be out of business.
Case in point, there are no more Mini 14 magazines above five rounds in the country. In the COUNTRY. There may be a few hanging around some mom and pop shop in Cougar’s Crotch, New Mexico. And you may see some ghost magazines “in inventory” that don’t actually exist. But they’re gone. Do you have any idea what it takes to deplete the entire country of Mini 14 magazines? I guarantee you that corporate executives from Ruger, and a half dozen other major magazine manufacturers, are meeting on a daily and sometimes hourly basis about manufacturing and logistics, wondering how they are going to ramp up production and transport and still limit their exposure should this come to a screeching halt.
So, it’s all true. Yes, they can’t cancel your order. Yes, they don’t know what has shipped and what hasn’t. Yes, they charged your card and nothing has happened yet. Yes, they don’t know what’s in inventory anymore. But these aren’t anyone’s fault. We have INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE from Arfcom selling their own personal inventory at zero profit just to fill the gap. We have major distributors who have said that they are pushing all orders NOT from California to the side so that they can fill ours as fast as they can. And that, my friends, is all anyone can do.
So show some class. Don’t panic. Have some fun. Compliment these vendors, many of whom started taking orders and shipping early, when they were in legally muddy water. And, as my wife is fond of saying... “Calm your tits.”
I’ve been ready to address comments like these for a few days, and in a few dozen places. I don’t know if some of you mean to sound this way, but we are watching you show up to the supermarket 15 minutes before a CAT 5 hurricane and indignantly asking where all the water’s at. You’re rudely asking why nobody’s giving you an answer about where all the cans of soup are three days after an earthquake leveled every freeway in and out of California. We feel for you. But you can’t show up to Calguns with your “I want to talk to the manager" haircut and stage whisper “Oh my God, Karen, like, what the hell, you know? Who HIRES these people?”
This isn’t hyperbole: we have literally broken the industry supply chain. We’ve shattered the logistics capability of nearly every mag vendor in America. Even if a truck pulled up now to these businesses with 17 pallets of magazines, they aren't going anywhere until they follow their logistics procedures. And their logistics procedures are now toast.
Whatever your job, there are procedures in place that are based on dealing with the worst possible scenarios that you have historically dealt with. This circumstance, like the hurricane or earthquake I talked about a minute ago, is unimaginable. No one could prepare for something like this and still have a business. It’s just not the way business operates. If you prepared for something like this, you would be out of business.
Case in point, there are no more Mini 14 magazines above five rounds in the country. In the COUNTRY. There may be a few hanging around some mom and pop shop in Cougar’s Crotch, New Mexico. And you may see some ghost magazines “in inventory” that don’t actually exist. But they’re gone. Do you have any idea what it takes to deplete the entire country of Mini 14 magazines? I guarantee you that corporate executives from Ruger, and a half dozen other major magazine manufacturers, are meeting on a daily and sometimes hourly basis about manufacturing and logistics, wondering how they are going to ramp up production and transport and still limit their exposure should this come to a screeching halt.
So, it’s all true. Yes, they can’t cancel your order. Yes, they don’t know what has shipped and what hasn’t. Yes, they charged your card and nothing has happened yet. Yes, they don’t know what’s in inventory anymore. But these aren’t anyone’s fault. We have INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE from Arfcom selling their own personal inventory at zero profit just to fill the gap. We have major distributors who have said that they are pushing all orders NOT from California to the side so that they can fill ours as fast as they can. And that, my friends, is all anyone can do.
So show some class. Don’t panic. Have some fun. Compliment these vendors, many of whom started taking orders and shipping early, when they were in legally muddy water. And, as my wife is fond of saying... “Calm your tits.”
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