In stores now...

[SoldierLife7]

Well, we all knew prices would settle down again---it's happened so many times before---I could feel the market changing a couple months back---now just wait for ammo prices to settle down some...

I'm hoping that is sooner rather than later!

[smle-man]

I stopped in the Big 5 in Santa Clarita when I was back there a couple weeks ago. They had a good stock of firearms on hand and ammo in the usual chamberings. The price of the ammo was awfully high but most likely in line with what has been the case.

[tabascoz28]

My Sportsmans in Sac has gone from 3 glass isle cases of ammo to 1. They don't even put the powder in the safe in the back anymore. No it's not good...

[anthracite]

I doubt most gun owners buy and sell all the time. On forums, sure because its the thing to do with certain guns.

Its doubtful that most people who buy a gun sit around 10 years later fretting over what it cost them, they are for practical purposes, durable goods and unless you are shooting 1000 rounds a week the gun bought will last a very long time.

You see the types, it happens with cars or just about anything else. Its the buy now cry later or something like that as if everyone else buys something and then scours the ads and prices to see if they could have saved a few bucks. What a waste.

Someone pays a bit too much but gets out the range and has a blast. The other one sits around pondering high prices and the buy now then cry deal. Who is living and who is just passing the time waiting around?

Its easy to get caught up in the price of the day and for some its near blasphemy if they pay over what MSRP was 2 years ago. That isn't likely true for a majority of people who buy a gun. They get it and keep it and for the most part aren't concerned with the new stippling or latest grip angle and accessory mounting points.

See anyone complaining about what they paid for their guns 20 years ago? Not me. Even those higher priced guns back then where someone might have paid top dollar - they aren't complaining today because if they were to sell they'd probably come out ok.

You see this price sensitive concern with lots of things, even stocks. Who can't recall someone telling them the price they paid for a company like Microsoft or Apple when it was $18 was nearly insane? Any complaints today? While guns aren't stocks the emotions and the usual "the price is too high" is common to both.

If you bought 20 new high quality 1911s today and paid MSRP or even more, in 20 years do you think the cost to get them would be an issue? Seriously unlikely. So what about the less expensive budget guns? The people buying budget guns aren't the typical forum types who respond to higher prices with something like "I'll fire up the forge, start the mill and make my own". They bought the gun for self protection usually aren't carrying guns and they'll have it for a long time and eventually that ends up being passed on to someone when they are gone.

So if you live in the moment all the time you might find that the money you didn't spend wasn't really worth the good times you could have had.

As for waiting for people who bought their toys in the past year to sell to pay bills, from what I have seen so far they are trying to recoup their investment at covid premium pricing. Every day there are threads of "LNIB Glock X" for $700-800.

[lakersfan]

Sportsman's has had G19's in stock for weeks at $549. And everyone knows is the greatest firearm ever produced.

Fairfield store able to add to cart

https://www.sportsmans.com/shooting-gear-gun-supplies/handguns/glock-19-9mm-luger-402in-black-nitrite-pistol-101-rounds-california-compliant/p/1155366

It's been that way all day. I went there today to check on my online order for something else.

[osis32]

Only dummies panic buy. Unless they're underaged. That's no fault of theirs.

[The Gleam]

Biden, Newsom, and/or Federal or State legislatures (lest one of those is keeping his head low due to pending recall) only need make an inference, push, or stroke of a pen to incite a whole new circus of panic.

And times right now are really ripe for that to happen before elections 2022.

I suspect there will soon be some political speak, actions or expression by tail end of September, maybe sooner, that upends inventories again, inducing long lines and shortages that we saw last fall through February, both on guns and ammo.

There's an atmosphere, a sort of toxic Anti-2nd Amendment fog being conjured like never before, by these same pundits and the NeoSocialist media backing them.

[ysr_racer]

I was at Bass Pro in Rancho Cucamonga today. Tons of ammo, 9mm, .40, .45, .223 and CCI primers, $65 per 1k.

Maybe things are getting better?