Sipsey Street Irregulars: Gun Dealer Discounts Disappearing. Rationing Begins

Friday, December 21, 2012

Gun Dealer Discounts Disappearing. Rationing Begins

Nick Leghorn complains about market capitalism.

Which is doublespeak for “screw you, we’re charging what the market will bear no matter how much you sell.”

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jon said...: good article, and the comments, too. we have time! don't go crazy. (i do not doubt everyone who reads this already has at least four or five 30-round STANAG magazines, and several of the people who got the link here have probably ten times that.)

CTD is a big retailer that does a lot of business, giving them the eagle eye over any one of us. let them get one step ahead in terms of pricing existing stock for now. let's talk about how to manufacture them instead. we have other people to be one step ahead of.; December 21, 2012 at 8:22 AM
A Reader said...: If I had to guess, I'd say the manufacturers were preparing for their most successful product lines to be on the wrong side of federal "law", extracting as much profit and operating capital from a willing and desperate market before their business model is thrown in the trash for another decade. If they can pull down enough, maybe a few can survive a return to the pump, wheel, bolt, and lever era.

To hell with the hoplohobes.; December 21, 2012 at 10:10 AM
Anonymous said...: It's not "screw you", it's economics. The gun industry is probably the least corrupt industry left in the US. People who are asking higher prices are just responding to natural market pressure and scarcity. Prices must rise in order to create an incentive to ration current inventory, and to produce more inventory. Are you selling your magazines for 14.99 to anyone who asks? Didn't think so. I'm not selling mine at all, but I don't begrudge those that raise prices in this environment. This is economics, and it's healthy.

Read Russ Roberts "The price of everything".; December 21, 2012 at 10:41 AM
Happy D said...: We have sold all of the available AR-15 lowers we carry and all of the production run currently being finished from the same manufacturer.
We did not increase the price at all.

Any new production will be higher because of the increase in price of aluminum from the last lot the manufacturer bought.

Mr. Leghorn may not realize that just that alone has raised the price. Much of the current ARs available were manufactured three years ago. Aluminum prices were lower in many grades.

We had to raise prices on some items just so we can order a new one to take the place of the one we are selling. We may have to do that again tomorrow.

The way guns are sold has changed drastically in the last three years.; December 22, 2012 at 1:22 AM

"Progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress."

I believe that liberty is the only genuinely valuable thing that men have invented, at least in the field of government, in a thousand years. I believe that it is better to be free than to be not free, even when the former is dangerous and the latter safe. I believe that the finest qualities of man can flourish only in free air – that progress made under the shadow of the policeman's club is false progress, and of no permanent value. I believe that any man who takes the liberty of another into his keeping is bound to become a tyrant, and that any man who yields up his liberty, in however slight the measure, is bound to become a slave. -- H.L. Mencken

"The Fate of Unborn Millions. . ."

"The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or Slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their Houses, and Farms, are to be pillaged and destroyed, and they consigned to a State of Wretchedness from which no human efforts will probably deliver them. The fate of unborn Millions will now depend, under God, on the Courage and Conduct of this army-Our cruel and unrelenting Enemy leaves us no choice but a brave resistance, or the most abject submission; that is all we can expect-We have therefore to resolve to conquer or die." -- George Washington to his troops before the Battle of Long Island.

"We will not go gently . . ."

This is no small thing, to restore a republic after it has fallen into corruption. I have studied history for years and I cannot recall it ever happening. It may be that our task is impossible. Yet, if we do not try then how will we know it can't be done? And if we do not try, it most certainly won't be done. The Founders' Republic, and the larger war for western civilization, will be lost.

But I tell you this: We will not go gently into that bloody collectivist good night. Indeed, we will make with our defiance such a sound as ALL history from that day forward will be forced to note, even if they despise us in the writing of it.

And when we are gone, the scattered, free survivors hiding in the ruins of our once-great republic will sing of our deeds in forbidden songs, tending the flickering flame of individual liberty until it bursts forth again, as it must, generations later. We will live forever, like the Spartans at Thermopylae, in sacred memory.

-- Mike Vanderboegh, The Lessons of Mumbai:Death Cults, the "Socialism of Imbeciles" and Refusing to Submit, 1 December 2008

"A common language of resistance . . ."

"Colonial rebellions throughout the modern world have been acts of shared political imagination. Unless unhappy people develop the capacity to trust other unhappy people, protest remains a local affair easily silenced by traditional authority. Usually, however, a moment arrives when large numbers of men and women realize for the first time that they enjoy the support of strangers, ordinary people much like themselves who happen to live in distant places and whom under normal circumstances they would never meet. It is an intoxicating discovery. A common language of resistance suddenly opens to those who are most vulnerable to painful retribution the possibility of creating a new community. As the conviction of solidarity grows, parochial issues and aspirations merge imperceptibly with a compelling national agenda which only a short time before may have been the dream of only a few. For many Americans colonists this moment occurred late in the spring of 1774." -- T.H. Breen, The Marketplace of Revolution: How Consumer Politics Shaped American Independence, Oxford University Press, 2004, p.1.

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