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Los Angeles Sheriff closes gun stores

RaleBulgarian said:
Of course I do, and I proved that by providing factual (and more current) information than you did.
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So then you agree that straw man sales was the #1 source of guns for criminals....but now it has been superseded by supplies from corrupt gun dealers ?
 
Are gun stores still open in Russia?
 
Rich2018 said:
So then you agree that straw man sales was the #1 source of guns for criminals....but now it has been superseded by supplies from corrupt gun dealers ?
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Based on your dated reference, it appeared so.

Happy?
 
Those long lines aren't people who already own guns. This crisis is making gun owners out of people who never owned a gun before. That's good news for those of us who value the 2nd Amendment. Gun stores may not be considered "essential", but defending your home and loved ones apparently is.
 
Waddy said:
...that's good news for those of us who value the 2nd Amendment. Gun stores may not be considered "essential", but defending your home and loved ones apparently is.
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That can't be good news as it would mean not only more gun, but more gun owners.

Double bad news.



And when this all blows over, the second market in guns will be saturated.
 
Rich2018 said:
That can't be good news as it would mean not only more gun, but more gun owners.

Double bad news.



And when this all blows over, the second market in guns will be saturated.
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For you, maybe. But I'm glad to see more @nd Amendment supporters. Bad news for you gun grabbers. The used gun market is ALWAYS "saturated".
 
Waddy said:
For you, maybe. But I'm glad to see more @nd Amendment supporters. Bad news for you gun grabbers. The used gun market is ALWAYS "saturated".
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Well for a "saturated" market, it just soaked up more guns.

Those new gun owners will regret wasting their money and find it's a very expensive door stop they have when the come to sell them in a few months time and see how the price has dropped.
 
Rich2018 said:
Well for a "saturated" market, it just soaked up more guns.

Those new gun owners will regret wasting their money and find it's a very expensive door stop they have when the come to sell them in a few months time and see how the price has dropped.
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The guns won't be sold. People will keep them for future use. We've already been told this virus most likely will be cyclical. And they won't get cheaper. That's your wishful thinking. Just like EVERYONE is now a "prepper", there are possibly millions of new gun owners. The game has changed.
 
Waddy said:
The guns won't be sold. People will keep them for future use.
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Do you have any evidence for that ?


We've already been told this virus most likely will be cyclical. And they won't get cheaper. That's your wishful thinking.
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Hardly my wishful thinking since I don't plan to buy a gun

But if the motivation to buy guns was to defended your stores in a time of crisis, that will disappear as the virus is eradicated

So logically people will have no need of their newly bought guns and won't use them (some might of course). So as guns are sold, the 2nd hand market is flooded and the price falls to meet lower demand
Economics 101


Just like EVERYONE is now a "prepper", there are possibly millions of new gun owners. The game has changed.
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You talk of wishful thinking...sadly much of the perishable goods that people have hoarded will be thrown out, once they pass their expiry date


The game, as you put it, has not changed
Enjoy your diet of tinned bean in the months to come - you paid for those tins after all.
 
Rich2018 said:
Well for a "saturated" market, it just soaked up more guns.

Those new gun owners will regret wasting their money and find it's a very expensive door stop they have when the come to sell them in a few months time and see how the price has dropped.
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Have you knowledge of prices dropping for firearms?

I bought my S&W 586 for $150 and my S&W 66 (used) for about $100 plus used textbooks.


The 586 is going for $600-1000 used.

The 66 is $800-900 used.
 
Fledermaus said:
Have you knowledge of prices dropping for firearms?

I bought my S&W 586 for $150 and my S&W 66 (used) for about $100 plus used textbooks.


The 586 is going for $600-1000 used.

The 66 is $800-900 used.
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that's one great buy for a 586. Never as popular as the stainless 686, it is still one of the three or four best revolvers Smith ever made. in 4" it is extremely useful for home defense, CCW and in 6 inches its an ideal deer gun or target piece
 
TurtleDude said:
that's one great buy for a 586. Never as popular as the stainless 686, it is still one of the three or four best revolvers Smith ever made. in 4" it is extremely useful for home defense, CCW and in 6 inches its an ideal deer gun or target piece
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A sporting goods store in Oakland decided to get out of the gun sales business in the 1980s. They drew in all the old stock from around the west coast. Plenty of rare and unusual things. An old Russian mosin nagant sporter stock. Bergmann Bayard and other odd ammo. Gun sights galore. My cheaper rifles ended up with high quality dovetail sights.

My 586 was brand new. I bought one and another Marine saw it and off we went back to the store so he could buy one. Consecutive serial numbers.
 
Fledermaus said:
A sporting goods store in Oakland decided to get out of the gun sales business in the 1980s. They drew in all the old stock from around the west coast. Plenty of rare and unusual things. An old Russian mosin nagant sporter stock. Bergmann Bayard and other odd ammo. Gun sights galore. My cheaper rifles ended up with high quality dovetail sights.

My 586 was brand new. I bought one and another Marine saw it and off we went back to the store so he could buy one. Consecutive serial numbers.
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I bought a new 686 around 85 after I had moved back home after my grad school was up and I bought one-with a good discount (a shop/range where I shot had staff shooter slots and you got discounts) and it was still about four C notes as a recall-I still have it: it now has a Jarvis underweight on it and I used it for pin shooting)
 
Fledermaus said:
A sporting goods store in Oakland decided to get out of the gun sales business in the 1980s. They drew in all the old stock from around the west coast. Plenty of rare and unusual things. An old Russian mosin nagant sporter stock. Bergmann Bayard and other odd ammo. Gun sights galore. My cheaper rifles ended up with high quality dovetail sights.

My 586 was brand new. I bought one and another Marine saw it and off we went back to the store so he could buy one. Consecutive serial numbers.
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When I was stationed in Germany, I had a good friend who worked part time at the Nuremburg area Rod and Gun Club's gun shop. He found a couple guns in the store room that had been put on "lay away" a long time prior and had never been picked up. They were then put back up for sale, but with the caveat they had to be priced at their original price. That led to him scouring the storerooms of the other Rod and Gun Clubs around Germany.

He found some amazing deals and usually offered them to me before he put them in the display cases. I recall one was a Mod 29 S&W apparently out of their custom shop. At least it was unlike any Mod 29 I had saw. It was about a 3" barrel and round butt with some very nice finger groove wood stocks. Had been stored quite awhile. IIRC, I could have had it for somewhere about 300 bucks.

Sadly, I was under the impression it was too much of a bother to buy guns in Germany and import them into the States. I was very mistaken and the price I paid haunts me to this day. :)
 
Rich2018 said:
Well for a "saturated" market, it just soaked up more guns.

Those new gun owners will regret wasting their money and find it's a very expensive door stop they have when the come to sell them in a few months time and see how the price has dropped.
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Your evidence for the guns will be sold in a few months time?
 
Some of these guns will be kept by there first time owners, and some will be sold in a few months once life returns to a more normal routine.

Personally I'm looking forward to those guns that get sold and the good deals they come with.
 
Chillfolks said:
Some of these guns will be kept by there first time owners, and some will be sold in a few months once life returns to a more normal routine.

Personally I'm looking forward to those guns that get sold and the good deals they come with.
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Yes they will be and they'll probably collect dust but I suspect that most will be sold and so many guns on the second hand market can only push the price down.


You should find quite a few good deals, even if RF thinks that there's no evidence to think there will be.
 
Rich2018 said:
Yes they will be and they'll probably collect dust but I suspect that most will be sold and so many guns on the second hand market can only push the price down.


You should find quite a few good deals, even if RF thinks that there's no evidence to think there will be.
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I didn't say I thought there was no evidence about "good deals". I noted you haven't supplied any evidence of your prior statement.

Your post is both cowardly and dishonest.
 
Rich2018 said:
Yes they will be and they'll probably collect dust but I suspect that most will be sold and so many guns on the second hand market can only push the price down.


You should find quite a few good deals, even if RF thinks that there's no evidence to think there will be.
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You "suspect" most will be sold.

Anything to support your suspicions yet? Or is it just a case of frustration at the number of gun owners rising?
 
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