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I'm helping friends who were delinquent in buying guns/ammo/accessories try to put together some gear. Helping them find items is frightening. Entire companies are empty of anything or mostly empty. Prices are quite high as we all know. This is on mostly speculation and fear. I think once they start passing bans and restrictions prices will soar ... so the worse is YET to come I fear.
We all know it's going to be bad under the likely Biden/Harris admin. I'm trying to weigh how bad it is right now with shortages versus in recent history.
I got into guns during the Clinton AWB. My first AR was a neutered Bushmaster with 10 round mag, for $1000 ($1500 in 2021 money). Currently you can buy a lot more AR today than my $1000 bought me at that time. So today isn't as bad as during the ACTUAL AWB blight.
I've lived thru the 3 Obama spikes (post election 2008-2010; re-election 2012-2013; Sandy Hook 2014-2015) and the pre-2016 Hillary election spike.
The Obama spikes were big and bad. I paid $150 each for several stripped AR lowers. I recall high prices and low inventory on other items during this first two spikes. Post Sandy-Hook he was outwardly talking about gun bans, and that cleaned out stores of all inventory on anything tactical and magazines going up x10 in price.
So by contrast, we aren't quite that bad but we do have shortages of most things.
Pre-2016 election, I remember watching a lot of YT videos and reading about massive shortages. My local gun store was mostly cleaned out, as were many nationwide. I don't recall big price spikes though.
How would YOU compare what is happening today versus other spikes in demand in recent history?
We all know it's going to be bad under the likely Biden/Harris admin. I'm trying to weigh how bad it is right now with shortages versus in recent history.
I got into guns during the Clinton AWB. My first AR was a neutered Bushmaster with 10 round mag, for $1000 ($1500 in 2021 money). Currently you can buy a lot more AR today than my $1000 bought me at that time. So today isn't as bad as during the ACTUAL AWB blight.
I've lived thru the 3 Obama spikes (post election 2008-2010; re-election 2012-2013; Sandy Hook 2014-2015) and the pre-2016 Hillary election spike.
The Obama spikes were big and bad. I paid $150 each for several stripped AR lowers. I recall high prices and low inventory on other items during this first two spikes. Post Sandy-Hook he was outwardly talking about gun bans, and that cleaned out stores of all inventory on anything tactical and magazines going up x10 in price.
So by contrast, we aren't quite that bad but we do have shortages of most things.
Pre-2016 election, I remember watching a lot of YT videos and reading about massive shortages. My local gun store was mostly cleaned out, as were many nationwide. I don't recall big price spikes though.
How would YOU compare what is happening today versus other spikes in demand in recent history?