Whos been to a gunshow lately?

[jodevilgod1]

What are prices/ availability looking like compared to, say, 4 months ago? Specifically quality AR15s of the SPR type.

I hear ammo in popular calibers is hard to come by as well.

Location is TX if any of you guys live there.

[ArmsMerchant]

My last gunshow was week before last in Eagle River, which is sort of a bedroom suburb of Anchorage.

I don't pay attention to long guns, but generally, prices are up across the board , due to right-wing paranoia. Thsi is okay by me, since it helps justify the prices I charge for my gray-market handguns.

[PooPfish]

[Vargus]

I'd estimate good quality AR-15 to be around $1k, generally.

I spent $860 on a Colt A2 upper and a DPMS/CAI lower on 1-21-09, the day after O-day. Last week or the week before I caught a price tag on a S&W A4 16" to be $900 at a local pawn shop. I suspect that gun show sellers are going to tack on $100 or 200 to the price.

[The Savage]

Last gun show i went to must of been 1995, tables full of $10 and $20 semi-auto .22's and sxs shotguns. If only i were born 5 years earlier .

This is okay by me, since it helps justify the prices I charge for my gray-market handguns.

What do you mean by Grey-market? I thought pretty much everything aside for G18's and the like were legal over there?

[ArmsMerchant]

Okay, here's the diff--white market is regular purchase from FFl dealer.

Black market is buying illegally--felons selling to felons, or selling illegal weapons.

As a gray-market dealer, I sell as a private citizen, and do not buy or sell more than four handguns a month,as federal law mandates. I do not knowingly sell to someone forbidden by law to purchase a firtearm--especially convicted felons. Since I have no access to NCIC, I take people's words for it. Often, there is NO paperwork at all involved. Sometimes I will ask for I and take down purchaser's name and license number, but that's it.

[Mephistos Minion]

And this is why I am moving to the states. The assrape involved in getting a handgun here is ridiculous.

[Groundhog whacka]

I didn't get to last months gun show but a friend of mine scrounged up some 250 rounds or so of 9mm ammo he had laying around and took it to sell. He no more than got in the door and someone was on him about it. He ended up selling it to this guy for $1.00 a round, hows that for fucking ridiculous.

[DJ Meaty Cheeks]

Originally Posted by Groundhog whacka

I didn't get to last months gun show but a friend of mine scrounged up some 250 rounds or so of 9mm ammo he had laying around and took it to sell. He no more than got in the door and someone was on him about it. He ended up selling it to this guy for $1.00 a round, hows that for fucking ridiculous.

Jesus Christ! Was this guy retarded?

[Vargus]

Originally Posted by Alpheus

Was this guy retarded?

Probably someone who watches nothing but Fox News.

[Groundhog whacka]

Originally Posted by Mephistos Minion

And this is why I am moving to the states. The assrape involved in getting a handgun here is ridiculous.

You can get handguns but good luck finding ammo.

Originally Posted by Alpheus

Jesus Christ! Was this guy retarded?

Ammo is fucking tough to come by around here. The shelves of about anywhere I have looked for ammo contain only a few boxes of not so commonly used stuff like 270win 7mmRemmag, and the likes. I can't remember what the price was when I found some 9mm in stock somewhere but it was stupid. Hell I paid almost $8.00 ea. for the last 3 20rd boxes of Brown Bear 7.62x39 I found.

[ZX9R]

I've stayed far away from gun shows and gun stores since December of last year. I only buy online now.

[The Savage]

Any reason why?

I'm guessing Dec '08 has something to do with registration at gun shows? But if you wanted to buy "off the radar" so to speak, online seems like a really bad option.

[000]

*Obligatory joke about my biceps*

[I_can_sit_on_my_junk]

I went to one a few weeks ago. Gun prices have come down some off the oh shit there's a democrat in office peak they had going, but the ammo is still ridiculous.

Cheapest box of .45 ACP I found was $25 for a box of 50 UMCs which are shit. Then there was some S&Bs for $28. I wanted to punch the people in the throat for selling ammo at that price.

The number of whacko conspiracy book sellers and survivalist equipment sellers had shot up dramatically too.

[Space Monkey]

Originally Posted by I_can_sit_on_my_junk

I went to one a few weeks ago. Gun prices have come down some off the oh shit there's a democrat in office peak they had going, but the ammo is still ridiculous.

Cheapest box of .45 ACP I found was $25 for a box of 50 UMCs which are shit. Then there was some S&Bs for $28. I wanted to punch the people in the throat for selling ammo at that price.

The number of whacko conspiracy book sellers and survivalist equipment sellers had shot up dramatically too.

Haha that's nearly more than what we pay here in Italy, our prices are extortionate, yesterday I paid 12 euros for a box of 50 9mm rounds.

45 acp is usually between 18 and 25 euros depending on brand

[I_can_sit_on_my_junk]

It's so bad that I haven't gone shooting in a month. That's just pititful. I could easily afford to go buy a bunch of ammo, but it's the principle of the deal.

There's a gun store in town that left the markup on their ammo the same as before the hysteria and because of that they almost never have any. However they've earned my loyalty for life.

[ZX9R]

Originally Posted by The Savage

Any reason why?

I'm guessing Dec '08 has something to do with registration at gun shows? But if you wanted to buy "off the radar" so to speak, online seems like a really bad option.

With the Obama scare most gun stores and gun shows now have ridiculous inflated prices.

They won't get a penny until prices go back down -- if they do.



Online sales,

I mean -- private party.

Finding someone local on the gun boards (from the classifieds) and meeting for a face to face transaction.


Better prices.
No paperwork (here in florida at least).