I am able to keep up with the higher rate of purchases and keep inventory levels steady but the specifics of what I have have changed. Many of my staple guns I can’t keep stocked so I end up with some slightly odd ball items instead.
You're the small businessman, not me.
But I sure hope that before placing
every restocking order,
you make a
very objective evaluation
of demand for guns of any pedigree - even mutts,
versus the rebounding supply of popular guns.
You don't want to sleepwalk through filling out that order,
because all bubbles burst.
I wouldn't envy you being stuck with a lot of odd ball items
that you suddenly can no longer unload at a profit
once the panic ebbs.
You're the small businessman, not me.
Does anyone at all think this continued ammo drought is a little suspect?
I’m surprised it’s not worse, actually, given gun sales in general.
There have been at least three sources of increased demand:
- The snowball probably started down the mountain with the coronavirus shutdowns. Countless millions of people got their start at prepping by hoarding toilet paper. It didn't take much imagination to fear the food supply chain might dry up, to followed by apocalyptic gangs roving about, looking for food.
- George Floyd riots, looting, vandalism and violence quickly became widespread, and lots of people suddenly wanted to buy their first guns for self-defense. (Not to mention existing gun owners becoming suddenly dissatisfied with their own home inventory of guns'n'ammo).
- The unprecedented lockdown's unemployment has screwed bigly with the economy; especially among people that never had a decent job before in their life. This, and the Donks' strategic attack on election security through mail-in vote fraud, has put the radical gun-grabbing party within reach of the Presidency - in an election year that started out with a slam-dunk for the incumbent being a foregone conclusion.
They've been a succession of waves,
each blending into the next.
Has each wave been higher than the one before it, perhaps?
It would take governments doubling-down on shutdowns
to reinvigorate coronavirus gun demand.
Riots will ebb and flow with new bad shoots,
the results of criminal cases,
and whether or not governments are driven
to do something about looting and arson.
Demand driven by uncertainty about the nation's political direction
will implode or explode within a very few months,
and the ultimate outcome is only the realm of
fervent and rank speculation for a few months.
But it's worth separating concerns when trying to figure
out where demand is all going.
200,000+ dead. That's what you think is heroic, so awesome.
The vast majority of whom had co-morbidities,
assuming they actually even had coronavirus at all.
Assisted living facilities and nursing homes must be getting
a real kick in the nuts. They're being hollowed-out by disease,
their prospective customer base is being decimated by the same disease,
(
there's even a tinfoil conspiracy theory that the ChiComs engineered the virus
to kill the elderly, merely to reduce their own country's cost of elder care)
and their operating expenses have soared because of unbudgeted
sanitation labor, infrastructure, and materials.
Also, I never said I voted Left. But I have principles, and I won't be voting for the pussy-grabbing tax evaders, thanks.