High Prices for Arms and Ammo... it's just not American

[ZigZagZeke]

elkhunt58,

Thanks for your post. People are rationalizing creatures more so than rational ones. I doubt those who bought an AR three years ago or six months ago would, if selling now, not seek to maximize the profit they could make at today's prices. Some people buy and invest in stocks, commodities, houses, gold bullion, art, collectible guns, and ammo. In a Free Market and Capitalist Society, people can buy and sell ammo whether purchased six years, six months, six days, or six hours ago. The Free Market (which socialists hate) responds naturally and self-corrects to supply, demand, and perceived value. As a customer I don't like the higher prices charged by stores when I am the buyer yet if I have something of value that is in demand providing me with a profit then I like it. Life.

I don't buy guns as an investment. I buy them because I want to shoot them. But part of what I figure a gun is worth is the fact that it probably will not ever depreciate if I take decent care of it. By the time normal usage wears all the blue off it, it'll be so old that having no finish left will be a plus for pricing purposes. My wife thought I was nuts paying $1000 for a top of the line AR about 2 years ago. I saw the same rifle with no scope at Gun Broker Clackamas the other day for $1795, and mine has a $600 scope on it. I guess if I was selling it with the scope on it these days I'd ask about $2200 for it. That's not gouging. It's market forces.

My pet peeve is people who are insulted by "low-ball" offers. OK, maybe it's a waste of your time, but you kind of commit to a certain amount of time wasting inquiries from people when you list something for sale. If you don't like an offer just walk away from it, same as if you don't like the asking price.

 

[tacticalgunner]

You just earned a ton of respect from me.

+1 If we let the prices soar, we will be giving into what they all want, only the rich can afford to shoot. Always said, if they really wanted gun control, over tax guns and ammo.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

There's one born every minute

PT Barnum

 

[40calruler]

How do I get out of commission for a few weeks in the hospital and this site goes to hell glock 17s at 800 with no aftermarket additions? I get the AR price jump as started this thread and understand asking more as you can not find them. Yet I bet I can find a Glock for 500 in a shop by weeks end...even on crutches, wheelchairs, and whatever else the day brings for the knee.

 

[40calruler]

So much arguing about prices and such yet you walk into your local shop and they want 30 bucks for 50 rounds of winchester 9mm white box...Clearly it is not just the people of the forum jumping prices up..yet as I said I have found that I can still get a pistol I want at around the same old price at fishermans or gunbroker near me.

 

[bzltyr]

I just wish the stock will catch up. Its ridonkeless

 

[tacticalgunner]

So much arguing about prices and such yet you walk into your local shop and they want 30 bucks for 50 rounds of winchester 9mm white box...Clearly it is not just the people of the forum jumping prices up..yet as I said I have found that I can still get a pistol I want at around the same old price at fishermans or gunbroker near me.

Where do they have 9mm

 

[osterr1999]

I think it would be fair to say that if people are free to charge any price they like, which they certainly are, people are just as free to block them and not to do business with them ever. That is how the free market is supposed to work. If I don't like the way a company or individual does business, I can choose to take my business elsewhere. It is a very simple concept. I don't need to flame people for their ridiculous prices, all I have to do is laugh and block them.

 

[iusmc2002]

Where do they have 9mm

I bought two boxes of Winchester white box 9mm in a gas station in Montana, last week. $16.99. Only $7 more than I paid for it a year ago.....

 

[tacticalgunner]

NW Armory has it in stock now. 16 a box

 

[40calruler]

Same answer, NW armory almost always, gun shop on beaverton hillsdale hwy has it usualy, Learn your local BI mart or Fisherman marine delivery times and you can get it. Not hard you just have to be willing to do a little more walking and less sitting on your hands.

 

[40calruler]

Two Bi marts within a few miles of me, one gets deliveries on tues and thurs, the other mon and fri, Fishermans gets deliveries every day at around one. Its out there you just have to pay attention to when its there.

 

[Nightcrawler]

I need to make a gmail account just to respond to dooshnozzles like this:

ARMSLIST - For Sale: .22 LR Ammo - 2,100 rounds 36 grain Federal copper plated HP Olympia

FOR SALE: .22 LR AMMO - 2,100 ROUNDS 36 GRAIN FEDERAL COPPER PLATED HP OLYMPIA
$420 in the Olympia area FTF pick up only. Cash only.

 

[OregonGreg]

God (and John Moses Browning) Bless you. I am sort of in the business. I work with a tiny little "mancave shop". We have a gun store attached to a Coin/Gold/Silver/shop and Mens barber shop. Kinda unique. The same guys tend to be interested in all three areas. We hear the same crap you hear. But we get it all day ...in person.

 

[drew]

I need to make a gmail account just to respond to dooshnozzles like this:

ARMSLIST - For Sale: .22 LR Ammo - 2,100 rounds 36 grain Federal copper plated HP Olympia

FOR SALE: .22 LR AMMO - 2,100 ROUNDS 36 GRAIN FEDERAL COPPER PLATED HP OLYMPIA
$420 in the Olympia area FTF pick up only. Cash only.

$105 per box? He's looking for one big sucker.

 

[40calruler]

You know i have found enough good deals and have enough pistols that I am considering getting my ffl due to not wanting trouble selling too many guns or ammo but even still I can not see pricing them above what they are really worth...Not what scum bags are charging. I bought a glock 17 for 550 2 weeks ago at a local shop brand new with all the new glock crap that comes with them. I keep seeing people selling gen 3 and "like new" 17s for 800. Give me a break. There is an add for a M&P right by my same model add for my M&P and the guy wants 600 for the gun and has only one mag. Mine with no signs of wear, factory box everything it came with, 2 yes 2 mags as it should be is 525 and only because it has glow sights that did cost me extra when I bought the piece. Am I screwing myself? If I am I will not lose sleep over selling at a fair price.

 

[Blitzkrieg]

I need to make a gmail account just to respond to dooshnozzles like this:

ARMSLIST - For Sale: .22 LR Ammo - 2,100 rounds 36 grain Federal copper plated HP Olympia

FOR SALE: .22 LR AMMO - 2,100 ROUNDS 36 GRAIN FEDERAL COPPER PLATED HP OLYMPIA
$420 in the Olympia area FTF pick up only. Cash only.

I have a LOT of that.. good ammo but I paid $0.03 a pop in the early 1990s

 

[40calruler]

I miss the good old day (2 months ago) when you could go into BI Mart and know that you would walk out with whatever ammo you want and a brick of 525 .22 was 18 bucks or so. I am sure they will be here again but man I wish it was now. I miss plinking rather than hoarding.

 

[40calruler]

I bought a 17hmr rifle that I do not need because I can get ammo..that is not my best reason for spending 250 on a rifle.

 

[tacticalgunner]

Same answer, NW armory almost always, gun shop on beaverton hillsdale hwy has it usualy, Learn your local BI mart or Fisherman marine delivery times and you can get it. Not hard you just have to be willing to do a little more walking and less sitting on your hands.

What gun shop on Bv hillsdale?