So, Gun Show This Weekend: What Should I Panic Buy?

Veer_G

Veer_G

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#1
Picking up odds and ends online as we speak. It's nothing entirely outside of normal stuff that I might have done over a longer time frame, but I think that things are going to suck soon even more than they have, and hard.

So, help me wash away the doom and gloom of an imminent dystopian present with some righteous gun show retail therapy. What to get?
 
#3
It's like predicting the stock market, which I can't do either, but I really don't think this will be like the last ones, at least I hope not. I expect a wave of reactionary purchases, but if there aren't other incidents I think it won't be the panic we had before. I can say for sure that the wave of reactionary purchases has already started. By coincidence, my suppressor tax stamp arrived at my dealer's on Monday. I went in to pick it up yesterday during lunch and there were four people doing 4473s there. None were ARs, though - one Garand, one SKS, and two for handguns. I stopped by another LGS after where a friend works and there were a couple guys there filling out forms (don't know what they were buying). My friend confirmed that they had gotten busy since the events on Sunday.

I based my above guesses on NOT having Obama or Hillary in power, and most Republicans still being afraid to cross the 2A. I could be wrong. If Hillary were in, we'd be looking at another long panic for sure. I expect to see these devices that enhance firing rates of semi-autos to likely go down this time, though.
 
#6
Dirty D said:
Screw buying, this is the time to sell.
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I don't know that we're going to see any continued sell/buy-back/sell cyclic advantages in the future, despite the current CiC and Bannon's "beginning of the end" comments on 2A. This might, instead, be the time to buy and hang on tight.
 
#9
Veer_G;n6663695 This might said:
It's been that time for a loooong time now. If you haven't yet, then by all means get what you can, when you can. Look at it this way - even if shortages never develop, it's never going to get any cheaper.
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#10
I've not been to a gun show in decades. Charge $15 or more admission, Nazi and conspiracy shit for sale all over the place, shitty reloads, illegal Chinese knock off parts all over the place, over priced guns, few waistlines under 44", only thing F-Class was tits and not the good kind of F either, just fatty fat-fat kind. No thank you...

ETA: I almost forget, the posers. Fucking everyone was SF Sniper SEAL, and can't wait to tell you all about it only break contact real quick once they realize they might be talking to someone who actually knows a thing or two. Mother fucker please...
 
#17
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I’ll take ammo for $400 in this round.

QUOTE=Veer_G;n6663613]Picking up odds and ends online as we speak. It's nothing entirely outside of normal stuff that I might have done over a longer time frame, but I think that things are going to suck soon even more than they have, and hard.

So, help me wash away the doom and gloom of an imminent dystopian present with some righteous gun show retail therapy. What to get?[/QUOTE]
 
#18
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Hey... it's tactical. Sort of. And that is a game bag, not a purse.

Cheers,

SIrhr
 
#20
sirhrmechanic said:
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Hey... it's tactical. Sort of. And that is a game bag, not a purse.

Cheers,

SIrhr
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Yup, and lose the hat, replace it with a man-bun, add a manicured beard, ditch the shirt and tie for a flannel plaid, get rid of that silly coat, put on a paid of Calvin's and Merrill's, replace the gun with a chainsaw and that most certainly IS a purse, not a game bag.
 
#31
Well with today's developments I guess you should buy some ammo. News just had an interview some Democrats and after bump stocks their next target looks to be limiting ammunition "stockpiling". That ammo is common so the "need" (my 2nd least favorite word) to have more than a few rounds in the home is unreasonable.
 
#36
Look at the Kalifornian laws and apply to your circumstances

1- no mail order ammo in 2018
2- Ammo buyer card needed to buy ammo from a dealer in 2018
3- fingerprints and fee sent to DOJ to hopefully get your ammo buyers card
4- no new mags over 10 rounds
5- surrender all pre y2k 10 rounders (on hold due to lawsuit)
Let’s skip all the semi auto headaches

so what to get...

look at your circumstances- probably not the time to buy a mag loader nor a Bi Pod as those will be here for years.

 
#38
When the panics set in, I usually buy things others aren't thinking about. Like reloading stuff, optics, nylon shit, whatever. Things other people AREN'T looking at. I also have pretty good connections with places that "don't run out" so generally I'm okay. I deal with manufacturers when I can, which helps a lot. I also buy in bulk during good times.

But if they ban bump fire stocks, fuck 'em, it's junk that turns a good rifle into a toy (some asshole on CNN said that!) and I don't have one. However, I go by that adage, "When they came for others, I did nothing, when they came for my neighbors, I did nothing and when they came for me I was all alone" or along those lines. So I'm against the ban on 'em simply because it's not a compromise, because in a compromise they give up something too (why should I have to compromise anyway, I did nothing?) and we are dealing with zealots. If the next shooting happens same way but all the shit used is banned already, they'll still want more laws. Happens all the time.

 
#41
myronman3 said:
you know what i come away from this with?

​​​​​​some of ​you fuckers need to get into handloading. i cant believe that folks that shoot as much as this community dont handload. i have no idea how some of you do it.
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I smell what your cooking, and i have the equipment. But working 12+hrs a day most of the time 6 days a week. I dont have the time.
 
#43
Well, I'm back already from Day 1. I bought a small, middlish price-point 5' (the only thing that would fit where I wanted to put it) safe to deal with congestion in the main long-gun safe, and, for you traditionalists ...

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Plus, I gave two TV interviews, one in English, and the other in Spanish. Who knows? Maybe one of them will actually run and I'll get my 15 minutes.

Tomorrow, I'll go back and wade through the siding salesmen and the Nazi memorabilia vendors.
 
#44
Day 2. Ridiculous ammunition prices. GP11 7.5x55 for $41/brick, 5.45x39 7N6 for $300 a tin. I got a 10 rd. Salga 12 magazine for only $10, an HK P2000 13 rd. magazines for $40, about retail, and a brand new Magpul PRS Gen 2 for only $190.
And then I picked up the safe from the vendor.

It's in the house. I'm beyond exhausted. It took three of us budging, and pulling, and pushing to get it in over the abnormally high threshold, and then we couldn't get it down the basement steps, because it absolutely filled the landing with zero wiggle room. So now we have the absolute zenith of white trash decor in the living room, but it's a tasteful glossy black, so it goes with the man-cavish black leather furniture quite nicely.
 
#45
Veer_G said:
Day 2. Ridiculous ammunition prices. GP11 7.5x55 for $41/brick, 5.45x39 7N6 for $300 a tin. I got a 10 rd. Salga 12 magazine for only $10, an HK P2000 13 rd. magazines for $40, about retail, and a brand new Magpul PRS Gen 2 for only $190.
And then I picked up the safe from the vendor.

It's in the house. I'm beyond exhausted. It took three of us budging, and pulling, and pushing to get it in over the abnormally high threshold, and then we couldn't get it down the basement steps, because it absolutely filled the landing with zero wiggle room. So now we have the absolute zenith of white trash decor in the living room, but it's a tasteful glossy black, so it goes with the man-cavish black leather furniture quite nicely.
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You going to leave it there? How many stairs do you need to go down?

My original set up was in the living room, They sure don't design houses for our needs. A few years later I noticed one of the window wells was rusting (if your not familiar https://www.lowes.com/pd/50-in-W-x-36-in-D-x-60-in-H-Economy-Casement-Window-Well/3605636). I took some measurements, sold my safe to a buddy and commenced to replacing the window well. Bought the biggest thing that would fit though the window. I popped the window out, built a ramp from outside to inside, and with the help of about 15 grown men we slid the new storage facility down into the basement. If the house ever gets sold it will be part of the package.
 
#47
2ndamendfan said:
You going to leave it there? How many stairs do you need to go down?

My original set up was in the living room, They sure don't design houses for our needs. A few years later I noticed one of the window wells was rusting (if your not familiar https://www.lowes.com/pd/50-in-W-x-3...w-Well/3605636). I took some measurements, sold my safe to a buddy and commenced to replacing the window well. Bought the biggest thing that would fit though the window. I popped the window out, built a ramp from outside to inside, and with the help of about 15 grown men we slid the new storage facility down into the basement. If the house ever gets sold it will be part of the package.
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@2ndamendfan

It isn't the number of steps, or the fact that there are steps, but the fact that the landing is literally about 3/8" bigger than both the width and depth of the safe. We tested the stairs by moving the box down them: zero wiggle room, no go, short of a miracle stair climber that has bogeys and tracks that function like the cargo rollers on a K-loader, capable of a 90 degree drive shift. And yes, I can operate a K-loader with the best of them. FWIW, I'm gonna call a local company that moves safes and see what they say, but I don't think that even state of the art equipment is gonna miracle this shit downstairs.

Check out the Italian babe!

 
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Veer_G said:
@2ndamendfan

It isn't the number of steps, or the fact that there are steps, but the fact that the landing is literally about 3/8" bigger than both the width and depth of the safe. We tested the stairs by moving the box down them: zero wiggle room, no go, short of a miracle stair climber that has bogeys and tracks that function like the cargo rollers on a K-loader, capable of a 90 degree drive shift. And yes, I can operate a K-loader with the best of them. FWIW, I'm gonna call a local company that moves safes and see what they say, but I don't think that even state of the art equipment is gonna miracle this shit downstairs.

Check out the Italian babe!

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Gotcha, I was in the same boat. Hence upstairs until reasonable excuse to remove window became apparent. The local safe company came an looked and said no joy. That was 15 years ago though.
 
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