U.S. Sees Ongoing Spike in Gun, Ammo Sales: ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It’

[livingston]

U.S. Sees Ongoing Spike in Gun, Ammo Sales: ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It’


The National Shooting Sports Foundation told the AP that it estimates that 20 million guns were sold in the U.S. Of those, it believes 8 million sales were made by first-time firearms purchasers.

“When you talk about all these people buying guns, it really has an impact on people buying ammunition,” the organization’s spokesperson, Mark Oliva, said.

“If you look at 8.4 million gun buyers and they all want to buy one box with 50 rounds, that’s going to be 420 million rounds,” he added.


The New York Times reported in May that preliminary data from Northeastern University and the Harvard Injury Control Research Center showed that a fifth of the people who bought guns in the U.S. last year were first-time owners.

The data also showed that 39 percent of U.S. households now own guns, an increase from 32 percent in 2016.


As firearm sales have increased and gun dealers struggle to keep ammunition on the shelves, the AP reports ammo imports from Russia, South Korea, the European Union and other countries have increased 225 percent.

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[Steal2B]

And that doesn't include the dreaded ghost guns, on-line free 3D printed instant guns, home depot diy stuff, and gun show loophole guns, or the Newburgh parking lot drive through gun shop sales.

 

[Podmonkey]

Actually supply seems to be coming back ever so slightly. Prices on 9mm have dropped too. Rifle caliber prices remain high.
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[fresch]

Almost like a run up to, you know the thing.

 

[FP1201]

U.S. Sees Ongoing Spike in Gun, Ammo Sales: ‘I’ve Never Seen Anything Like It’


As firearm sales have increased and gun dealers struggle to keep ammunition on the shelves, the AP reports ammo imports from Russia, South Korea, the European Union and other countries have increased 225 percent.

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Foreign Countries think we're headed for a shooting war in the US, the Citizens are afraid we're headed for a civil conflict....
I'm really not sure what people are buying as the only guns that seem to be available are the unpopular models, and as for ammunition, it's being bought up as fast as it hits the shelves which is at least in part, why there isn't any on the shelves.

 

[Phazer]

I couldn't really believe this when I saw it. It would appear that some people do not get real training after getting pistol.

According to this gun store owner, new gun owners are returning Glocks "because they do not have an external safety." Seriously?

Those with training know that as long as you've got a good holster to protect your trigger, there is no reason to have an external safety.

 

[Xae289]

I couldn't really believe this when I saw it. It would appear that some people do not get real training after getting pistol.

According to this gun store owner, new gun owners are returning Glocks "because they do not have an external safety." Seriously?

Those with training know that as long as you've got a good holster to protect your trigger, there is no reason to have an external safety.

Unfortunately, people assume that an external safety is necessarily safer. I'm kind of of two minds about it.

I'm confident in handling handguns and really learned on ones that don't have externals. To me, any handgun that's out of the holster has to be treated as hot until I clear it, external safety or not. With that mindset, I see an external safety on a handgun as a liability that I might fail to disengage at the worst possible moment without giving me any added safety benefit.

There are definitely people who almost never practice firearms handling. They'll rarely even shoot and will never practice dry-handling them. Sucks, but there isn't any convincing them to practice because it isn't a priority. They think they'd be able to react competently in a situation where they'd have to use a handgun and they don't know enough to know how incompetent they actually are. Yet the 2nd Amendment protects their right no less than it protects Jerry Miculek. For someone like that, yea, they have a higher chance of failing to disengage an external safety in a bad situation. These people have such low proficiency that they pose physical and legal risks to themselves and others, so having an external has a better chance of saving them from themselves than it has of getting them killed. I feel the same way about carrying without one in the chamber. Should anyone do these things? No. Is it the better option for some? Probably.

 

[spat]

Unfortunately, people assume that an external safety is necessarily safer. I'm kind of of two minds about it.

I'm confident in handling handguns and really learned on ones that don't have externals. To me, any handgun that's out of the holster has to be treated as hot until I clear it, external safety or not. With that mindset, I see an external safety on a handgun as a liability that I might fail to disengage at the worst possible moment without giving me any added safety benefit.

There are definitely people who almost never practice firearms handling. They'll rarely even shoot and will never practice dry-handling them. Sucks, but there isn't any convincing them to practice because it isn't a priority. They think they'd be able to react competently in a situation where they'd have to use a handgun and they don't know enough to know how incompetent they actually are. Yet the 2nd Amendment protects their right no less than it protects Jerry Miculek. For someone like that, yea, they have a higher chance of failing to disengage an external safety in a bad situation. These people have such low proficiency that they pose physical and legal risks to themselves and others, so having an external has a better chance of saving them from themselves than it has of getting them killed. I feel the same way about carrying without one in the chamber. Should anyone do these things? No. Is it the better option for some? Probably.

If you aren't comfortable without an external safety, just don't chamber a round.

Sure it's a liability and will slow your reaction significantly, but consider that slide one giant 2 handed external safety.

The answer to it being slow is to practice until you become comfortable enough that it's not needed.

 

[Xae289]

If you aren't comfortable without an external safety, just don't chamber a round.

Sure it's a liability and will slow your reaction significantly, but consider that slide one giant 2 handed external safety.

The answer to it being slow is to practice until you become comfortable enough that it's not needed.

I hear you and agree that not chambering a round is probably a better solution for such a completely untrained person than having an external safety. The problem with beginners and safeties is that they don't know what they don't know and just hearing "it has a safety" makes them think "it must be safer".

 

[Defilade]

So sick of the yo-yo in the gun and ammo business.

 

[spat]

So sick of the yo-yo in the gun and ammo business.

Then get yourself a warehouse and go into business "flattening the curve".

Buy low and sell high is a great public service (not to mention a great way to make a profit in the process).

Free markets are always the solution.

 

[dwa12479]

I couldn't really believe this when I saw it. It would appear that some people do not get real training after getting pistol.

According to this gun store owner, new gun owners are returning Glocks "because they do not have an external safety." Seriously?

Those with training know that as long as you've got a good holster to protect your trigger, there is no reason to have an external safety.

My Shield 9 has an external safety.... that's never been engaged.