Posted: 4/12/2009 7:57:30 PM EDT
Who is hurting the gun industry? Is it the manufacturers or the people trying pass the ban. It seem to me that if you have a sudden increase of new buyers / voters that can influence their congressmen to stop the bill it would be in the best interest of the manufacturers to get the rifles and their accessories out irregaurdless of price. All I have seen recently is the prices increase at the local gun shops, gun shows, and web site stores because of the scarcity. It seems to me if I was new purchaser of an AR and did not get my rifle I would be pretty upset with the companies. This would cause me to join the rest of the tree lovin people. (good thing I already have my AR, just waiting for accessories) Tell me what you think. 
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yeah and ive heard that prices are going to drop drastically this summer I can only wish that ammo prices come down, shooting has become a major strain on the wallet. We all hear a lot. What will happen is another thing... Cheap AR's on the way, huh? We'll see... |
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Who is hurting the gun industry? Is it the manufacturers or the people trying pass the ban. It seem to me that if you have a sudden increase of new buyers / voters that can influence their congressmen to stop the bill it would be in the best interest of the manufacturers to get the rifles and their accessories out irregaurdless of price. All I have seen recently is the prices increase at the local gun shops, gun shows, and web site stores because of the scarcity. It seems to me if I was new purchaser of an AR and did not get my rifle I would be pretty upset with the companies. This would cause me to join the rest of the tree lovin people. (good thing I already have my AR, just waiting for accessories) Tell me what you think. its a wonder to me why it takes so damn long for the manufacturers to produce more when the market is this good right now. all the money is only going to those who jack up the prices. Maybe they do not have faith that the demand will keep up, could be that as the economy gets worse or remains stagnant for an extended period people will start selling off more guns that buying them. But what does tree lovin have to do with gun banning? Nothing. |
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Who is hurting the gun industry? Is it the manufacturers or the people trying pass the ban. It seem to me that if you have a sudden increase of new buyers / voters that can influence their congressmen to stop the bill it would be in the best interest of the manufacturers to get the rifles and their accessories out irregaurdless of price. All I have seen recently is the prices increase at the local gun shops, gun shows, and web site stores because of the scarcity. It seems to me if I was new purchaser of an AR and did not get my rifle I would be pretty upset with the companies. This would cause me to join the rest of the tree lovin people. (good thing I already have my AR, just waiting for accessories) Tell me what you think. Its pretty simple. You are missing a valuable bit of history from your thinking. In 1994 there was this thing called an "AWB". People rushed out and bought all kinds of stuff in the 90 day window. Manufacturers stepped up production cranking out as much as they could, sometimes not assembling all the parts (such as magazines as if they were manufactured by then it was preban). There was a few months of people going insane maxing out credit cards lots of money being spent. Then there was the last half of 1994 1995 and 1996. These were rough times for the gun industry. Not because of the ban itself but because all those people maxing out credit cards quit buying guns for a few years. So the choice now is ramp up production meet the demand with the extra costs (new equipment, new employees, training, overtime, unemployment when the boom goes bust––which they always do) and no pending legislation in sight having less money to deal with the lean times or just plug away save what ya can and hope for the best. |