America's gun stores are overstocked

[Czsp-01-9mm]

Maybe they should have an adopt a gun program, I'd gladly pay an adoption fee of 35 dollars

[Zorba]

Smith & Wesson revolvers - other than J frames and X frames - have been in pretty short supply for the last couple of years. Go to grabagun or Buds, and there will be a lack of choice in K, L, and N frames.

I'm hoping that changes soon, 'cause I'd like to pick up a 69 and a 929.

-- Michael

Tell me about it - my wife wants a 617 in 4".

[Sabesimpson]

Cut the prices 40-50% for Black Friday im in! I can use a couple bolt actions and maybe a couple of shotguns!

[Gem1950]

time for another false-flag even to stimulate panic buying?

Now is the time to buy, before the next big massacre happens and the President calls for banning scary looking firearms.

Ditto

[neouser]

Buy low, never sell.

[tankarian]

Just wait until Hilary gets elected. The NRA will be out in force again telling everyone that weapons will dry up again and be outlawed. People say Obama was the best gun salesman, I say the NRA is.

The benefit of experience allows one not to become a sheep and follow the herd. only the uninitiated get caught up in the fruckus. Panics serve no one except the greedy/gougers/opportunists. People and their fickle feelings, I do enjoy enjoy watching the shyt show from afar though.

Which Hillary are you talking about?
Oh, you mean Hillary Clinton? Who's husband Bill passed the shameful Federal Assault Weapon Ban which lasted 10 years and which she decried when Bush the Young and the GOP Congress let it expire?
Nah, nothing to worry about Hillary. NRA is just scaremongering.
NRA is just the lobbying group of the evil gun corporations, Faux News and the Koch bros.
How did I do, CAguy? I used all DemocratUnderground talking points, did I do well?

[tankarian]

It costs Glock $75 to manufacture a gun that sells for over $500. Even a revolver that is MSRPing at $1K will cost $200-$300 tops.

The add on cost come from pipeline manufacture-wholesaler-dealer markups.

I get that these are legitimate costs but that still dose not negate the actual manufacturing costs.

This is called CAPITALISM.
If you don't like how capitalism works you have two solutions:
1. stop buying guns or,
2. move to a communist country where there is no such thing as capitalism - but the mere possession of a gun will provide you with a life sentence in a gulag.

[M1NM]

I also wouldn't mind a new S&W 19 6" in .44 Magnum for $300

I'd be all over a 19 in something other than 357 - it'd be a real collector piece. Wouldn't mind a 29 for $300. My last one a 29-2 cost me $400 used.

[tankarian]

You're also forgetting R&D, marketing, operation costs, etc.

There is more to the price of a product than simply the manufacturing cost and profit margin.

Not for an avowed San Freakcisco socialist, there isn't. The people's exploitation perpetrated by greedy capitalist gun makers must cease! They get fat from workers sweat. Down with Gaston Glock! Punish both, Smith and Wesson. Ruger sounds German, he must be a Nazi!
Clench your fist in anger, raise it in the air and shout: power to the people!

[The Last American Hero]

maybe makers like Ruger will reconsider Rostering some pistols for the HUGE and hungry CA market.

With ongoing improvements in CAD/CAM I could see a startup cloning CZ or Ruger, etc designs and tweeking them to pass the Roster.

[Merc1138]

maybe makers like Ruger will reconsider Rostering some pistols for the HUGE and hungry CA market.

With ongoing improvements in CAD/CAM I could see a startup cloning CZ or Ruger, etc designs and tweeking them to pass the Roster.

Ruger can't get their newer pistols added to the roster, since they don't have microstamping. It's not like manufacturers wouldn't want to rake in the cash from sales in CA, it's that they can't.

CZ clones already exist, and they can't be added to the roster for the same reason that a Ruger pistol can't be added. There is no "tweaking" that will make them pass the requirements to be added to the roster.