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Sales of guns and ammo are losing steam after a frenzied run-up sparked by fears of greater restrictions in the wake of the Newtown shooting and other massacres.
Background checks by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, considered to be the most accurate means of tracking gun sales, plunged by a third in January compared to the year before. There were about 1.66 million background checks last month, and nearly 2.5 million in January the year before.
In the past two years, gun shop owners and consumers have complained of ammunition shortages and a dearth in fast-selling semiautomatic rifles and high-capacity magazines, even as manufacturing ramped up.
But the shortage appears to be over. "Retail inventories, which had been in short supply last spring, have largely returned to normal now," wrote Rommel Dionisio, a gun industry analyst for Wedbush, in a recent report.
http://money.cnn.com/2014/02/14/news/companies/guns-ammo-sales/index.html
I bet there will be a spike after the Dunn verdict. Gunning down an unarmed black teenager is gun nuts' wildest wet fantasy.
flobee1
(870 posts)everyone has one now?
loli phabay
(5,580 posts)hoping prices level off so i can restock.
spanone
(135,915 posts)Lost_Count
(555 posts)geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)He's been in office for how long, and his army of black stormtroopers hasn't rounded up the first christian for the FEMA camps.
Don't worry, I'm sure they'll get all crazy again when Hillary takes a huge lead in the polls in 2016.
Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)no more talk of a stupid AWB. I do think this one is kind of on the limit for GD but all gun posts seem fine now. I do hope the ammo prices keep coming down. They are starting to but need to come down some more. Good thing surplus 7.62X54R is still fairly cheap.
Loudly
(2,436 posts)A spectacularly bad idea.