Welcome back to the planet!
Been empty since early May.
Prices are higher-ish, but there's no inventory.
TC's
Stevens
uncommon calibers
high dollar collectables
That's all that's left on the shelves.
Sure, people have firearms & ammo they're selling / trading.
But you won't find much of either on a retailer's shelves.
If they tell you they can order it, don't expect delivery by Christmas.
I expect to see a drop in sales/checks if not from July, then August surely.
There's plenty of demand just no supply.
Do you think the gun inventory is continually selling out as it is stocked? Or are manufacturers/distributors being limited in what they can deliver? I would imagine Glock, Sig, S&W, Ruger etc would want to continue manufacturing at least as fast as pre-covid, although gun makers in blue states may be subject to shutdowns. Everyone has known this is a presidential election year, with expected huge demand, so they should have been ready to make a bunch. Hate to lose this opportunity to increase gun ownership with all the chaos in 2020.
Local Cabela's has quite a few guns including shotguns, rifles, AR's and quite a few HG's both semi-autos and wheel guns. But had a mere fraction of their usual number used HG's on display. I didn't take time to inventory the exact types of firearms there but most AR's looked to be higher end closer to $1500 or more $$$ then $1000. Since the panic set in haven't seen a decent priced AR at Cabela's and not a single HG caliber carbine. I didn't spend time inventorying what exact HG's were there as I buy most my HG's online or from a smaller LGS near me, as even now I can find good deals on the popular Sig P320 line of HG's, my favorite HG's.
But one gun in short supply both on line and OTC near me is Glocks. About a month ago it occurred to me as I have a very large number of OEM and Promag Glock 17 round mags for my 9mm carbines, I felt it only logical and even prudent to buy a Glock 17. How ever I have found none in stock on line at an acceptable price and at Gunbroker they are to expensive and most are outrageously over priced for both new and even used Glocks including LEO trade ins. I did come across several Glocks recently at a great little LGC but After finding 9mm and 224 bullets (only reloading component I do not have a unlimited supply of) at a very good price on line I bought a huge amount so my gun budget didn't allow for a want based new HG purchase and in all honesty I have enough 9mm's HG's I simply can not justify another purchase that would put me over budget.
In my experience which I imagine mirrors most others, right now near me 9mm ammo are harder to come buy than HG's and although bullets are still readily available OTC only one store I know of has powder and primers available OTC. I know of LGS that have 9mm but they have 1 or 2 box limits. Cabela's and BP by me save for one recent instance have been out of 99-100% of powders and primers save for 209's for months now. I'm told they put out powder regularly but it sells out same day almost always and I'm never lucky enough to be there on that particular day. Occasionally they will have a couple of bottles of less popular powders and always have 209 primers but it's purely hit or miss on LG/HG, LG/RF, LG/RFM, SM/RFM SM/HG and SM/HGM. I did get very lucky about 4-5 weeks ago to walk up as they were putting out several 1k CCI 450 SM/RFM primers suitable for reloading 223 for AR platforms (only primer I don't have in unlimited amounts) and bought 1/2 of what was out and could have bought all but didn't want to be hoggish and I have no intentions of reselling any of my primers except some I listed here that I bought based on what was an impending rifle purchase that didn't occur and ended up not needing them as I have all the LG/RFL primers I will ever need.
Bottom line if you don't reload and failed to stock pile reloading components, and don't have 9mm or 223 ammo in sufficient amounts you are either going to pay grossly over inflated prices for it on line for the ammo or be faced with prices 30% above the norm for very limited amounts OTC and primers and powder are still available on line but again prices are considerably more due to S&H and hazmat fees VS OTC which is essentially has very rare availability near me.
Thank all mighty God I stock piled ammo and reloading components when I did.
Same here been buying mostly reloading supplies, but also guns and ammo from Kemph's for over 25 years. I have 8lb bottles of HP-38 and 8lb bottles of Unique I bought there and the price tags on the HP-38 was $109 and the unique was $98.I put this on another post. I went to Kempf's last week, and they had powder and primers in stock. Bought what I wanted and needed without having to back order.
Took me a min to figure out what you meant but got it. I have a nice stock to last me awhile. I plan on going to the Valpo gun show to check reloading prices and see what I can buy if not at gouging levels. I just started to get into casting last year so focusing more on finding cheap lead, pewter, and moulds.