Hello everyone,
I've been browsing around google for a while now, looking for some forum discussion or article guessing at when this gun panic will end. So far the most recent article I've found was from 2011.
I've never lived through a gun panic, and I'm just curious when this one will end. I'm trying to expand my Mosin Nagant collection, and people are asking $300 for a beat-up, half rotting Mosin.
To be clear I purchased my first Mosin a few years back for $75, complete with cleaning kit and bayonet, etc. And I more or less left the market alone between then and now, so seeing(pardon my french) such bubblegumty Mosins be toted up as rare collectables came as quite a shock. I remember just a year ago Big 5 had Mosins stacked up, on sale every week just to get rid of them.
I was even escorted out of the Portland Gun Show for asking for a refund(as the show consisted mainly of T-shirts, duffel bags, and a slew of extra random crap that had nothing to do with guns. Like wood carvings!).
So by the by if anyone of you are planning to go to the Portland OR Gun and Knife Show, don't bother. It's not worth the $10 to enter the place. Not even 200 guns in the entire show all told, and most are falling apart.
Sorry, I tend to ramble on when I'm starting a thread. My question here is does anyone know when guns will go back down to reasonable prices? Or at least, when reasonably priced places, like Big 5, will see a resupply?
Also is there any truth to the Russians melting down 4 million Mosins??! And more importantly, how do we STOP them!? Don't they know they could sell every single firearm they have to America? And at a premium to boot!
Anyways, just asking around, since I'm not about to throw down $300 on a non-working Mosin. I want to buy them at fair price, which to me is no more than $100 for a nice one. Not collector quality, these will just be shooters.
Cheers all,
Drame22
I've been browsing around google for a while now, looking for some forum discussion or article guessing at when this gun panic will end. So far the most recent article I've found was from 2011.
I've never lived through a gun panic, and I'm just curious when this one will end. I'm trying to expand my Mosin Nagant collection, and people are asking $300 for a beat-up, half rotting Mosin.
To be clear I purchased my first Mosin a few years back for $75, complete with cleaning kit and bayonet, etc. And I more or less left the market alone between then and now, so seeing(pardon my french) such bubblegumty Mosins be toted up as rare collectables came as quite a shock. I remember just a year ago Big 5 had Mosins stacked up, on sale every week just to get rid of them.
I was even escorted out of the Portland Gun Show for asking for a refund(as the show consisted mainly of T-shirts, duffel bags, and a slew of extra random crap that had nothing to do with guns. Like wood carvings!).
So by the by if anyone of you are planning to go to the Portland OR Gun and Knife Show, don't bother. It's not worth the $10 to enter the place. Not even 200 guns in the entire show all told, and most are falling apart.
Sorry, I tend to ramble on when I'm starting a thread. My question here is does anyone know when guns will go back down to reasonable prices? Or at least, when reasonably priced places, like Big 5, will see a resupply?
Also is there any truth to the Russians melting down 4 million Mosins??! And more importantly, how do we STOP them!? Don't they know they could sell every single firearm they have to America? And at a premium to boot!
Anyways, just asking around, since I'm not about to throw down $300 on a non-working Mosin. I want to buy them at fair price, which to me is no more than $100 for a nice one. Not collector quality, these will just be shooters.
Cheers all,
Drame22
