45Badger wrote:FJ540 wrote:Buying to explicitly re-sell without a FFL is a no-no. Buying and having someone offer you 2.5x what you paid, or because you need to free up the money, or you just don't like how it shoots, or whatever, is just your right to dispose of personal property how you see fit.
I've moved a bunch of guns this year, but none of them were expressly obtained to sell for profit.
In fact, the one I just sold was intended to merely split shipping and FFL transfer fee expense.
As a well informed and known (and entirely legal) serial buyer, seller, flipper, swapper, horse-trader, I think that what I've bolded above could be construed in a bad way by an overly eager beaver ATF agent. Just saying you might want to consider your choice of words (memorialized here on the inter-webs). Not suggesting you had any bad intent.
Back to the regularly scheduled pissin-an-a-moanin about stuff you can't afford, resentment that some other dude can, or had the foresight or good luck to buy, steal, hoard, etc. Or that businesses use pricing as dynamic tool to manage their profitability AND their inventory levels. Frontiersman was looking pretty bare when I went in yesterday. So was Arnzen. If they do not get more inventory in, they cannot sell it next week, cash flow shrinks, employee hours get cut or terminated, businesses close, yada, yada, yada.......... If they have no/less cash coming in because they have nothing or reduced inventory to sell, it really sucks when the fixed costs like rent/mortgage, power, insurance, etc don't miraculously shrink in proportion. The biggest variable cost that can be managed has a pulse. That money will come out of employee wages and owners pocket/equity. When the owner has had enough, he shuts the doors.
If you were not wise enough (or too poor, or whatever) to foresee blips/circumstances like this, don't resent those who were, and DO NOT chase the stupidity. If you didn't "need" and AR or PMag last month, you probably don't "need" them now. Save your pennies for the day when the panic buyers realize they really didn't "need" it and DO need to pay a mortgage/rent, need to pay a kids tuition or medical bill, need a car for their spouse, etc. You will be able to buy at a steep discount to today's stupidity. The explosion of production and sales of high cap mags and ARs since 2004 has dwarfed the the pre-1994 supply. While a new ban would be a serious and stupid pain in the butt, the glut of supply in real numbers (not keyboard commando opinion) plus the hyper production that would go into effect with any serious ban legislation would mitigate the $$ impact of a fixed supply.
Finally, Merry Christmas! Don't be hating, sit back and enjoy the ride.
