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What will happen to our local gun shops?
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In my area, the small privately owned gun shops have almost no guns or ammo for sell. I know at least 1 is going out of business due to nothing to sell. They have utilities and insurance and other bills to pay and almost no sales. I have not talked to the other stores about this, but I believe they are about in the same shape. How are the gun stores doing in your area? Can they hold out until they are resupplied? I hope so, I hate to see us lose any more jobs and gun stores.
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They still have/have been/get ammo in everyday, and some guns too....enough to keep people coming in the door. They limit how many you can buy, unless you are a regular...then you can sweet talk 3 boxes instead of 2......
In no danger of going out of business.....
Don't know what they have to sell but they must be selling something!
Can't stay open without guns and ammo.
This is going to be an unintended consequence I am afraid.[:(]
CP
In my area, the small privately owned gun shops have almost no guns or ammo for sell. I know at least 1 is going out of business due to nothing to sell. They have utilities and insurance and other bills to pay and almost no sales. I have not talked to the other stores about this, but I believe they are about in the same shape. How are the gun stores doing in your area? Can they hold out until they are resupplied? I hope so, I hate to see us lose any more jobs and gun stores.
Basic Gunshop 101 is turning your money over continiously enough to pay bills, employees, order new inventory to start over again over and over.
If they have nothing to sell that means they sold out their entire inventory faster than normal or expected and should have the cash reserves to cover it for a couple months. If they sold 3-4 months worth of product in a month and didn't get anything to replace it they should still be good for several months. If they sold out of product in 3 weeks after the Sandy Hook shooting and bought 2 new vehicles and a house with the money, well that is what would sink a small gun shop.
Just my perspective.
I see in my crystal ball more than a few small gunshops closing up in the next year due to very poor planning, namely going to 5 distributor shows and ordering 1500 AR's at each one thinking the madness that was going on at the time was gonna last forever and you and only you were gonna be the one getting all these AR's(and everything else including the 400,000,000 rounds of pmc 223 ammo you ordered) and then distributors shipping all this stuff to said shops when it all catches up and there is no market due to the fact everyone has bought and stocked up all the guns and ammo they need for awhile.
We've had one close and the local black sheep sells only 50 rnd packs. purchase limit one per day per person at 3.99 a pack!
Black Sheep? I haven't been in one of those stores for years. It was a sad day when the one in Missoula closed.
he's about to get his wish........and then some.
and its the "and then some" that gets you........every time !!
here comes the pain.
where are all these gun shortages at ? Around here you can buy almost anything you want except AR-15 style rifles and they are starting to hit the shelves again, I have seen ammo shortages but only in certain rounds like .223 , 7.62x39 & .22 . and even those can be found, they may be more than I want to pay or I may be limited in how many boxes I can buy but its out there. Even here on GB,,you can find almost anything you are looking for,,People just panic buying because they did not think ahead
In Iowa. Around the Des Moines/Ames area every store that carries ammo has mostly empty shelves. No handgun ammo and only the unpopular rifle ammo. Even shotgun ammo is getting thin. Guns are available but limited models etc.
Depending on their bank loans, selling all your inventory one month and having little to sell the next 3 or 4 is default of their load agreement. Even if you have enough cash to cover it, banks view it as unsustainable to pay off their debt.
I foresee some of the small shops going under. But I don't necessarily think it is an UN-intended consequence.......
Yep... I agree that poor planning or excess spending may have done in some smaller shops.
But... If the drought is orchestrated correctly... What you end up with are just the big boys who are easily controlled through legislative mandates.
Take it for what it's worth... But this isn't going away anytime real soon.
IMO... The gub'ment is artificially keeping demand high which affects the supply.
No supply... And the little guys wither on the vine.
Once they release the demand strangle hold... Then supply will be providing the big boys.
Who don't want to go against the gub'ment...
Watch this thing ain't over yet...
the local shop I go to ran low on inventory at the end of January. They closed up and remodeled the store and reopened in march with a full inventory and are still selling guns ans ammo at the best prices around.
Good story,,glad for them-
quote:Originally posted by edgecam
the local shop I go to ran low on inventory at the end of January. They closed up and remodeled the store and reopened in march with a full inventory and are still selling guns ans ammo at the best prices around.
Good story,,glad for them-
Yep... Sounds like someone had a head on their shoulders and understood business...
Good on them... [;)]
quote:Originally posted by mm8nambu
quote:Originally posted by edgecam
the local shop I go to ran low on inventory at the end of January. They closed up and remodeled the store and reopened in march with a full inventory and are still selling guns ans ammo at the best prices around.
Good story,,glad for them-
Yep... Sounds like someone had a head on their shoulders and understood business...
Good on them... [;)]
Yup. Proactive, not reactive.