CA Gunshops Future ?

[Djantlive]

Firearms are still pretty cheap. Back in the late 90s, an AR was well over a grand. Glocks were around 350 if I recall correctly. Compare to other things, prices of ammo has gone up more than firearms.

Most gun stores get plenty of businesses these days from new gun shoppers, especially in the city. With the tax increases, more people are buying this month. When rosters open up more that will drive more sales too. I have seen LGS going under because of retirement and sloppy paperwork, not due to economics itself.

[peregrine1220]

The temporary gun shop buying pause will give everyone a chance to complete their AR builds.

[flyer898]

The one gun in 30 days law has to be affecting dealers.

[jmpeal]

Over time in this state, only the big box stores will survive mainly because of their sales of other outdoor equipment like BPS and SW. I can count around 10 LGS that closed just around a 15 mile radius around my work in Rancho Cordova. It is the Dems policy of a slow method of new laws that slowly make FFLs close down to new regulations, taxes, etc.

[Grendel Guy]

The one gun in 30 days law has to be affecting dealers.

Add to that permission from the crown to obtain weapons within the realm is limited to 5 years thus further limiting the amount of weaponry one may obtain.

[harbormaster]

Today is the last day to DROS is is it not?

[Grendel Guy]

I think it's the following Juneteenth.

[Sig79]

[smittty]

Today is the last day to DROS is is it not?

Nonsense, that's made up by turners. They cannot charge the 11% until July 1.

If you're buying something don't go to turners.

And, support your small local FFL's, we need them otherwise our guns aren't as easy to sell or trade.

[newshooter650]

This is a tangent but this is why it's so important to introduce new people to firearms ownership; whether as just a simple hobby or (even better) as an integral part of life as a free person in a society founded upon natural law and liberty but increasingly divorced from those values in the modern era.

Gun stores are like anything else: If we want them to exist we have to patronize them. More importantly, when we create more hobbyist gun owners and more POTG (Not necessarily synonymous) we broaden the marketplace for gun stores.

California was not always what it is today and it's not a given that it will stay as it is today. The moral of this story is patronize what you want to see exist and encourage others to join the club so that they also become patrons. To co-opt some Gandhi speak: 'You must be the change that you want to see in the world'