Gun sales hinge on Obama re-election…?

[c.a.willard]

I just don't see sweeping gun reform happening in the current economy for either candidate. Its a 31 billion dollar a year industry that directly or indirectly employes over 200,000 people.

[TrickyNicky]

The disarming of the American people will also be a financial nightmare. More than anything I see an Australian style mandatory buy back which we just can't afford on top of our middle eastern missions. Even that I find highly unlikely.

[Oh Shoot]

I just don't see sweeping gun reform happening in the current economy for either candidate. Its a 31 billion dollar a year industry that directly or indirectly employes over 200,000 people.

Banning private sales would throw more money to FFLs.

- OS

[c.a.willard]

That's actually a very good point that i didn't consider. Thanks O.S.

[Oh Shoot]

That's actually a very good point that i didn't consider. Thanks O.S.

Not to mention extra ten clams per pop to State of Tennessee!

- OS

[c.a.willard]

That 10 clams is why i buy rifles in KY, that and lower sales tax.

[DaveTN]

The “shortage†and the inflated prices is caused by the “sky is falling†gun owners and some suppliers that want to cash in on the gun seizure, or gun shortage hysteria. The anti-gun people don’t have to do anything but sit back and laugh.

However, it appears some have learned a lesson from last election. Remember all the guys that bought $1500-$2k AR’s that now can’t get anywhere near that back?

There is no long term shortage of guns. Manufacturers can’t buy machinery and train people to increase production because the demand won’t hold.

[Dolomite_supafly]

I can see the mass hysteria if he gets elected again. Otherwise it will be just like it has for the last 4 years. There will still be those dealers who claim it is coming and try to rip off naive customers.

I have talked to a dealer who is 100% for making private sales illegal. He wants all gun sales, private or otherwise, to go through a FFL with a mandatory background check. I asked him why and he said he has to so individuals should have to. He also said it was more revenue for him because he can charge for the "transfer". I asked if the state made the background and transfer free between two individuals would you still support it. He started belly aching about how that would cost him way too much money and he would go out of business if he had to perform free backgrounds and transfers between individuals.

Dolomite

[strickj]

I can see the mass hysteria if he gets elected again. Otherwise it will be just like it has for the last 4 years. There will still be those dealers who claim it is coming and try to rip off naive customers.

I have talked to a dealer who is 100% for making private sales illegal. He wants all gun sales, private or otherwise, to go through a FFL with a mandatory background check. I asked him why and he said he has to so individuals should have to. He also said it was more revenue for him because he can charge for the "transfer". I asked if the state made the background and transfer free between two individuals would you still support it. He started belly aching about how that would cost him way too much money and he would go out of business if he had to perform free backgrounds and transfers between individuals.

Dolomite

Glad to see him go belly-up

[DaveTN]

I don’t think Tennessee will outlaw private transfers. Of course I could be wrong, most of the legislation you will see coming will be in the area of background checks or keeping guns out of the hands of criminals and nut cases.

If I were a dealer I would do transfers for free: I think it would be a good way to get traffic in my store. However, I don’t think dealers should be required to do transfers; and they aren’t. They can charge anything they like. The ones that do the crazy pricing I just assume don’t want to do transfers.

If the government was serious about keeping the guns out of the hands of criminals they would set-up places to do free transfers.

How they would deal with the mental cases is questionable. Most nut cases don’t have anything in public records that indicate they are nut cases; they find out they are nut cases after they kill a bunch of people.

How serious is this issues to the government? In Tennessee we had a person that had his HCP revoked because a judge said he was a potential threat to public safety. What did the Feds do? Gave him an FFL. How crazy is that?

[JAB]

I expect to see private sales outlawed in next 4 years under BHO, or within 10 years no matter who's in power.

- OS

I expect to see high 'luxury taxes' or whatever they want to call them placed on ammo, reloading components and so on. The recent spate of 'mass' shootings (and any more in the future - which are likely to occur due to already unstable people being made desperate by the current economy) will be used as partial justification. The idea will be that, "If prices were higher then mass murderers wouldn't be able to buy hundreds of rounds for use against innocent people. We're doing it for the children."

I wouldn't be surprised to see this happen regardless of which anti-gun politician gets the "W" in a couple of weeks. That is also part of the reason I like to maintain a little 'nest egg' of ammo. Not thousands of rounds stored in PVC pipe under my lawn or anything but enough that I'm not going to be down to only one box on hand for my most often used calibers and maybe not even that much for others if such a tax is ever put into place.

That is where Heller could come back to bite us all in the butt. Instead of finding that the 2A is intended (mainly) to give the People the means to defend against a tyrannical government as well as other reasons, the Supreme Court came at the issue purely from the angle of personal self defense. Taking a narrow view of the ruling, then, one could easily say that increasing ammo prices does not interfere with that purpose. After all, the antis would say, one doesn't really need hundreds (or thousands) of rounds to defend one's home against an intruder or one's life against an assailant. One box of ammo should be more than sufficient.

Edited October 23, 2012 by JAB