[quote=reelman The actual dealers are the ones keeping the companies and the distributors in business[/quote]

And here I thought it was the firearms purchaser that kept the companies going.

No matter where it is purchased, from a FFL or Basspro, someone gets the money and the person who provides the best product/service is the one that should be rewarded. Most of the firearms that I possess have not been purchased from a traditional brick and mortar and most importantly I would not own them otherwise. Either they were not stocked beside the Rem 740 with see throughs or they were marked up double.

Some of the deals' rediculous markups have done more for guncontrol than Sarah Brady.

But then Adam Smith has been long dead as well as the concept of the free market.