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With so many shortages across all spectrums of the firearms industry i fear many gun shops will eventually fail not receiving enough inventory to keep the doors open.
Your thoughts?
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Could be.
I'd hate to be in business with all demand, and no supply.
Can't last long that way in anything.
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I'm sure none of the people making the decisions for the nation right now would complain if the gun shops fail along with the other small businesses.
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Depends how much throughput they are actually achieving.
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They could sell fudge and beef jerky and tasers in the interim?
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They are getting guns, they just aren't storing inventory. The good ones have a steady supply coming in. They might not be as many as they want, or their preferred models, but they are getting inventory. The new buyers aren't picky about models like normal gun people are. The shop that I just retired from sold 10,400 guns last year. Their previous best was 6300. They are obviously getting guns.
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If the supply is still the same they should be okay. Demand is clearing the shelves.
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One of the blacks that lives on the road to my cow pasture flagged me down today terribly upset that he cant find any .22 LR ammo anywhere. I told him I could give him a few but don't be expecting to find any for sale unless he wanted to pay a bunch to a scalper on Gunbroker. I believe if I had a gun and ammo business I would let people know I could get the stuff, it will be expensive, but no way could I take less than 25% markup.
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With so many shortages across all spectrums of the firearms industry i fear many gun shops will eventually fail not receiving enough inventory to keep the doors open.
Your thoughts? How are the firearms that are being made being sold. Don't they have to go thru Retailers? I'm not sure there is so much of a shortage as that firearms simply aren't staying "on the shelves". I think the gunshops are making bank right now. Just hope they invest wisely, not sure what the future holds for manufacturers. A local gunshop near me says he can't keep "Deer rifles " on the shelves right now. Usually he says he can't give them away a month after deer season.
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You can either sell at reasonable prices and keep your customers happy or you can gouge them now and when things improve, they will remember and then you will go out of business.
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I talked with a woman yesterday at a local shop and she told me her Dad had opened up the shop in 1978 and she wasn't sure they would still be in business 6 months from now. She was saying that they are totally dependent on their distributors and that if they say no to an order they don't get a call back. Pretty rough right now for some, I'd say.
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You can either sell at reasonable prices and keep your customers happy or you can gouge them now and when things improve, they will remember and then you will go out of business. This. One semi local place that hasn’t had a lot of inventory lately, upped Xfer fees to $50 due to high demand. 🤦🏼♂️ In other words, they can’t get anything but want to make even more off you buying it elsewhere and shipping it there.
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Our stock is lower than it has ever been. Goofballs come into the shop daily and opine that "business must be good!" I tell them that it is akin to eggs being worth 50 dollars a dozen, and my hens have quit laying. I don't know what the future holds, but I definitely liked the smooth and steady days a whole lot more.
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You can either sell at reasonable prices and keep your customers happy or you can gouge them now and when things improve, they will remember and then you will go out of business. Idiot. Sell it all and have nothing to sell...
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They are getting guns, they just aren't storing inventory. The good ones have a steady supply coming in. They might not be as many as they want, or their preferred models, but they are getting inventory. The new buyers aren't picky about models like normal gun people are. The shop that I just retired from sold 10,400 guns last year. Their previous best was 6300. They are obviously getting guns. This. 20 million guns last year alone, most gun shops don't even have time to answer the phones. Stopped in tonight at a hardware/LGS to see about shipping primers, they had 14 handguns come in on Monday, all are sold, it's only Wednesday.
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Gun shops don't help people become more dependent.
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A good friend of mine downstate has a very low inventory. He isn’t putting out ammo so he can sell some with a gun purchase. He told me that I could get just anything I need from him except just a few things. Luckily I haven’t had to use that offer yet.
I do know the local range is dead. The pistol league canceled due to the lack of ammo and/or the cost of it. The 22 league is still going though. People aren’t shooting for the fun of it nearly as much. You definitely don’t see the AR guys banging away their Wolf ammo anymore.
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There are gun shops that never recovered from the last inventory crisis back in 2012 .
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A shop local to me is surviving on transfers and used guns. Said the phone rings off the hook but the inventory is not there to buy. Anything they can get is spoken for before it hits the shelf
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