How long until the panick buying starts?

[Lumber_Jack]

one local store put a self imposed limit on ammo today--They say they doubt if they will get more for a while.

Who?

[Parrothead]

Who?

 

Mahoney's. My boss asked me to take him to buy a handgun today. He had little or no experiance but he wanted to get it while he could. He is a lefty so he fit right into a M&P 40c. We will head to the range this week to work on the basics.

[Lumber_Jack]

You can't stir the people in there with a stick on Saturdays. I'd hate to be there this coming weekend.

[PolePosition]

LOL at the mag sales between yesterday and today. I think most major online vendors have effectively been cleaned out of all 30 round PMag inventories. The panic is definitely in full effect. How do you ban guns when the entire country's inventories are being depleted as we speak?

[Lumber_Jack]

LOL at the mag sales between yesterday and today. I think most major online vendors have effectively been cleaned out of all 30 round PMag inventories. The panic is definitely in full effect. How do you ban guns when the entire country's inventories are being depleted as we speak?

 

 

I've been looking at stripped lowers online.  They have gone from a few left, to absolutely zero.  I wish I had bought a few spares while I could.  I spoke to a couple vendors that said they will get more in, its just a matter of minutes before they sell out.  

[Wyldk2]

Botach tactical has pmags. Though you will be paying 12 or more each. Ordered 6 last night and free shipping.

[herr.baer]

Gun stores report brisk business after Conn. massacre

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/17/gun-sales-brisk-connecticut-shooting/1775707/

 Most of the local gun shops around me have been cleaned out of just about anything AR/AK related. My favorite shop and a wall full of them before the shooting. Today the wall is empty.

[R1100R]

I just left Academy Sports in Mt Juliet. They were doing a brisk business. I got there at 0930 to buy a shotgun.

They were out of a lot of things and about a third of long guns left. They still had AR's on the shelve.

[Stegall Law Firm]

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."  That's from a book written in 1841 called Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, which chronicles various investment manias from the 16th to early 19th centuries.  Gun owners would do well to remember these words, but I doubt they will, because nobody else does.  A lot of gun owners right now are like the guy who buys milk and bread 24 hours before the storm hits. 

 

Cheaper than dirt is selling Pmags for $60.  This is hilarious.

[mav]

Cheaper than dirt is selling Pmags for $60.  This is hilarious.

 

That is a shame.  I admitted earlier that I got in on the panic buying Friday.  One thing I did get was 10 Pmags, but at normal price.  I just checked the vendor and they are all gone.

[Guest bkelm18]

I welcome the buying frenzy. That's just more guns in the hands of the people. I was at Academy earlier and witnessed several people who sounded like they were buying their first gun. I say good for them.

[Links2k]

"Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one."  That's from a book written in 1841 called Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, which chronicles various investment manias from the 16th to early 19th centuries.  Gun owners would do well to remember these words, but I doubt they will, because nobody else does.  A lot of gun owners right now are like the guy who buys milk and bread 24 hours before the storm hits. 
 
Cheaper than dirt is selling Pmags for $60.  This is hilarious.

You are correct. I was online at Midway USA yesterday with a basket full of "stuff" and I took a minute to look at my inventory and realized that I still had items from the great 2008 scare. These are items that I probably won't use any time soon just sitting there. Long story short, I emptied the shopping cart. I'll take my chances. Besides, my butt still throbs from what I allowed CTD to do to me four years ago.

[Links2k]

That is a shame.  I admitted earlier that I got in on the panic buying Friday.  One thing I did get was 10 Pmags, but at normal price.  I just checked the vendor and they are all gone.

I got the PMags during the summer when everyone was practically giving them away.

[viscero]

Not really sure it counts as panic buying but I did order some more ammo and mags in both AR and AK flavor.  Something I've been meaning to do anyways.

[atlas3025]

You could have gotten a chrome lined M4 from PSA for $399 minus BCG and charging handle (blem lower, full LPK with stock, M4 Chrome lined upper) on Black Friday, and that was AFTER there was a buying frenzy. 

 

Just to note the "mood" of the country.  My in-laws, who are Obama voters (yeah, I love them anyway) and have always been VERY nervous about guns, went and bought a Beretta 92FS and 38 snubbie two weeks ago, which was before even the Clackamas Mall Shooting.  I was stunned when they asked me what I thought of their purchases.  Both their daughters married gun nuts, so maybe they are just coming around, but I think the sense a change in the country.  I have heard an awful lot about first time gun shoppers since the election. 

 

In fairness, I don't know if they voted Obama this time, but they did in 08.  My mother-in-law still praises Jimma Carter. 

[geekitupsum]

I was at Academy Sports in franklin today at lunch and they were selling AR's like crazy. there was also only 1 box of .223 on the shelf (not to say there wasn't more behind the counter.

[RAJTENN]

Cheaper Than Dirt has stopped selling guns? Even the business sector is in a panic!

[kieefer]

I was at the Outpost and Speciality Arms today after lunch and both places were very busy, many looking at AR's. Several were purchasing handguns in the time I was there.

 

Got a little pressure from the Outpost salesman's saying that BHO was going to ban anything that held more than ten rounds in a magazine.  :waiting:

[Major Kong]

10 packs of PMags going for $280 on Gunbroker with a day left on the auction. The panic buying is here.

[Sam1]

Bulk ammo has went through the roof in just 48 hours, even the legit businesses are raising their prices

[Guest Torrin]

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[Ranger305]

Geekitupsum, I was in a couple hours after you were and was amazed.  I have never seen the gun racks at Academy that empty, There was little .22, .380, or 9mm to be found except the specialty stuff.  Walmart had steel case Tul and some priv-partisan or something, but that was about it.  Saw one person buy every available box, about 5-6, or Remington.38spl.  Looked like there was plenty of .40 and .45 left.

[Chadastrophic]

I ordered some ammo from Natchez, they said yesterday was their 2nd busiest day and today has been their busiest day ever. Sent from my ADR6425LVW using Tapatalk 2

[Oh Shoot]

I ordered some ammo from Natchez, they said yesterday was their 2nd busiest day and today has been their busiest day ever. Sent from my ADR6425LVW using Tapatalk 2

 

How you able to do that, have it shipped to another state than TN/GA/AL?

 

- OS

Edited December 19, 2012 by Oh Shoot

[Dmo34]

cdnn sports has Good to excellent condition Glock 17's for 389. Picked up a couple.

Edited December 19, 2012 by Dmo34