IMHO, as always, the ammo you have on hand to feed your firearms remains key to using , enjoying and getting proficient with them now and in the future. The way this country is going, who knows what ammo taxes or restrictions, if any might be in our future. What if you had to show some type of license in the future to get high priced blasting ammo and could only purchase it in small quantities ? Right now it is a stagnant buyers and speculators market for the things we could not get just a few years ago, without paying an arm or leg for it. Stock up now if you can.
it was impossible to find .22 here. some d¡ckhëad kept buying it all.
Yep, relatively close by. Let me know if you going to be in the area, could meet up there. I’ll be the asshole in the well worn BCM hat laughing at the prices on some of the used guns.
Used to stop in there on a regular basis to pick up little things when the prices weren’t stupid bad. Currently though their prices keep going up and up and it just getting to the point that it is no longer worth it to me to buy from them. I do go in but usually only to look around because I am in the area. Have picked up some good deals in the bargain cave area though, that said, I have no figured out their pricing model for that. Something missing a quarter of it’s parts is marked down 15-20%, but if the package is damaged it will be marked down 40-50%. Someone please explain that thought process to me. I mean, I like it, getting a 50% discount because the shit I am going to trash is messed up, but it makes no sense. Neither does the half of MOE handguard in there that is marked for like $28 or something like that.
And yeah, its not paranoia if it could happen, even less so when it has happened. And if nothing else, the stuff I am stacking deep is stuff I would use eventually anyway. So other than the cost of it at first, there isn’t really any downside to me.
My vote would be for: P-Mag’s, LPK’s, and BCG’s. “Relatively” inexpensive and will be easy to move for profit.
Personally I would love to buy a couple Colt 6920’s. My problem is that I would have a very hard time not shooting them!
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This will happen long before the actual election. It’s now a reliable event that has, and will happen prior to every election regardless of who is actually running. There is nobody that the Democrats are going to nominate who won’t panic the internet gun community.
Mags are the lowest investment for the best return to flip. My SOP is every time I go to my LGS I buy one AR mag, one Glock Pmag and one box of ammo at minimum. I have a copy paper box full of Pmags, mostly 40’s, ready to flip if prices get super whacky in another panic. I’ve thought about getting their AK mags and .308 mags but I don’t have either of those rifles so I’m sticking with what I’ve got.
I wish I had money to squirrel away a couple of Colt’s for a rainy day or if I ever have children but that is an investment I can’t afford right now.
- Get what might be banned later. This has been covered pretty well here.
- Get what you might want or use eventually if you don’t end up selling it. Or what you might some day hand down to your kids or grand kids. Do you have duplicates of all firearms that take hi cap mags? Do you have spare parts kits for all of your firearms? The oem1&2 6920 is real temping right now.
- The winter of 2016 may see the best of the bargains before prices start ramping up in anticipation of the election. I was hoping .22 prices would get back to normal before the next panic buying begins.
I bought a Colt 6920 from our local Wal Mart about 6 months ago. I paid 1040 for the thing and it has Magpul furniture.
It currently sits in the back of my safe and I have not even lubed it up or fired it.
Planning on unloading it during the next panic…along with all my old Beretta mags from my 92F that I no longer own.
I’d stock up on 22LR ammo (any flavor you can find) as well as P-mags or the cheap East Bloc AK mags. Those are probably a safe bet…along with my Colt 6920.
Worst case…i know I can get a grand for the un-fired Colt damned near anytime.
Yup, I have no interest in buying rifles or parts for the sole purpose of flipping them for a profit during the next panic. With that said, I have put back several Colt 6720s that I purchased for under $1K each for my son and any other children we might have in the future in the event we see another ban. I have no intention to ever sell them. However I do have several 100% NIB rifles that are no longer being imported that I plan to unload if we see another panic simply because I have lost interest in them and I am consolidating platforms for parts/mag/ammo commonality.
What quality bcgs are you guys stocking up on? I want to go with BCM but $170 is a bit much. Wish I bought a bunch when they were $120
I know that it’s always impossible to be 100% certain, and it’s best to just buy now if you have the means.
But when do election panics typically start? I know another mass shooting can happen unexpectedly, but assuming there were no surprise panics before elections. When should we expect to see prices rising and supply dwindling due to elections?
I’ve been around for the Sandy Hook and 2nd Obama panic, but that was sort of different in the timing of both so close together.
I was too young to really see the 1st Obama panic.
This^. Before Obozo the communist got elected the second time the prices started to go up about 4 months before the election. I started buying ammo and parts 6 months before that when it was $300 for M855. I kept buying until the price started to rise in the summer of 2012. When ‘The Jerk’ got re-elected I was already stocked. In fact, I built two rifles right after Sandy Hook form the parts I bought 9 months earlier.
So now is the time to prepare for Hellary.
The free shipping deal is gone now, but they still have Wolf Gold in an ammo can for $299 + shipping. –>http://www.the-armory.com/shopsite_sc/store/html/Bulk-Ammo-223-Remington-5.56x45mm.html
BCM
DD
LMT
Centurion
Colt (though the demand the highest price)
Not sure what lmt and dd bringing but have seen Colt on sale at 150 shipped. And no you cant have mine.
A lot things were available but at stupid high prices ($300+ for crappy lowers, $99.95 Pmags from CTD, 50 cents+ per round for Wolf 7.62, etc.) but 22lr was just about impossible to find.
Remain calm, don’t panic.
I sold a Noveske Gen 1 lower (aka plain milspec) for nearly $600. And before anyone asks, it was NOT for price-gouging purposes. I wanted a Gen 2 receiver, and those were going for $700. Only way to afford it was to sell the Gen 1 at current market prices, so I auctioned it.