Wayne02
Member
I don't haunt the gunshops like many on this forum and for the most part have stayed away from them throughout Q4 2008-2009. My short list is short and focused, and I reload so don't need ammo. Couple this with wanting to control impulse spending and it's just better if I don't go there unless they have something on my short list.
I did enter a gun shop once in 2009 for a transfer, as well as travels take me by my local shop frequently and I was amazed how insanely busy the shop was throughout the new adminstration panic buying phase over the last year or so. People were parking in adjacent parking lots and hiking to the store. You could see from the street how jammed packed the shop was.
In the last week I've been making the rounds in search of a pocket pistol. Once again I'm struck at how busy these shops are, not as bad as during the peak of the panic buying of course, but very brisk none the less. I found a pistol this morning and once again the shop was very busy. The person who helped me was doing the ffl forms three at a time so they could do a bulk nics call. Interesting also was that none of the guns purchased during my time there were of the AR15 or large capacity handgun type.
As with anything I'm sure this is a localized deal, and maybe people are just spending Christmas money but it sure seems a bit counter intuitive given the level of buying that has already taken place coupled with the poor economy. Maybe people are feeling much better about the economy? In a 'normal' (if there is such a thing anymore) year is the first quarter generally strong for gun sales?
I did enter a gun shop once in 2009 for a transfer, as well as travels take me by my local shop frequently and I was amazed how insanely busy the shop was throughout the new adminstration panic buying phase over the last year or so. People were parking in adjacent parking lots and hiking to the store. You could see from the street how jammed packed the shop was.
In the last week I've been making the rounds in search of a pocket pistol. Once again I'm struck at how busy these shops are, not as bad as during the peak of the panic buying of course, but very brisk none the less. I found a pistol this morning and once again the shop was very busy. The person who helped me was doing the ffl forms three at a time so they could do a bulk nics call. Interesting also was that none of the guns purchased during my time there were of the AR15 or large capacity handgun type.
As with anything I'm sure this is a localized deal, and maybe people are just spending Christmas money but it sure seems a bit counter intuitive given the level of buying that has already taken place coupled with the poor economy. Maybe people are feeling much better about the economy? In a 'normal' (if there is such a thing anymore) year is the first quarter generally strong for gun sales?
