Is the *apparent* likelihood of Trump winning 2020 impacting your purchasing?

2020 Election Projection, Impact on Purchases


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Didn't vote because the option I like wasn't there. I'm buying all I can because prices are decent. I think Trump will win, but the threat that he won't will drive prices up either way. I saw first hand last night about people not showing with our 2nd sanctuary status vote for the county. If that happens at the next election then Virginia won't be alone......
 
Yes it is!
I got fairly good health, I got a few guns, I got a few boxes of ammo.....I'm good!

That is good.

Myself... I am gathering what I want to use after retirement. Ammo I would like to shoot for 20 years (more please, if He chooses). Not for my kids as they need to step up for what they think is important.
 
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One more thing on the 1994 ban. Bush was not up for re-election. If he wasnt so tied up with the war on terror, he could have easily signed the extension which would have kicked the ban to 2014. We all know Obama, not being up for re-election would have gladly signed yet another extension kicking it just out of reach of Trump. That would have put the next extension in 2024.

The stroke of a pen at 11:59 one night in 2004 could have been very disastrous

Virginia is scary. Cali, New Jersey, New York are in the shadows. Bloomburg money is going to get even more dangerous in 2024.
 
I’m buying what I want, have reloading supplies sufficient to get through just about anything, so long as I don’t add another caliber for something like long range rifle. Well crap, maybe I should assume that I will and stock on that too.
 
I voted "Not really impacting my decision" because it was the closest choice for me. Like some others have said, budget has more of an impact than anything right now as I move toward retirement in a few years, but I have took advantage of the low prices to put back some ammo and reloading supplies to help carry me through regardless of what happens with the 2020 election. Hopefully by 2024 I'll have enough to last out my shooting days.

There are a couple of guns I'd like to have, but they're not on any endangered lists. I am getting ready to do an AR pistol build, not that I have any need for one, but I can do it pretty inexpensively right now and want to try it.

I usually try to stay out of political discussions online but as for the 2020 election, a few weeks ago I didn't think Trump could lose, that the turnout for him would be far greater than in 2016, and his coattails might help in the congressional and state races. But with Bloomberg buying his way in and knowing how the Democrats will lie, cheat, and steal to win, coupled with the fact that I hear more and more folks talk about how Trump's done a lot of good for the country but will not vote for him because he's an a$$ or because of the bumpstock ban, or because he tweets too much or whatever has me wondering it the turnout will be as good as I hope. To me that's short sighted given the alternatives, which are socialist rule or civil war.
 
With God sitting on his throne as my witness, in the thousands of firearms purchases I have made in my life [Yes 1,000s] I Never Once thought about what I could get for it later...NEVER!
I wanted to own it, hold it, shoot it and most of all let all my Shooting Buds do the same with it. The rarer the better [except for 1], that was the whole point....Hey Guys!!! Look what We got to play with NOW!
A great percentage of Any enjoyment I get in life is from other people's excitement and enjoyment. It seemed to come to me as my age increased. If there is anything here that you have ever wanted to try or just see and feel the action of a 100 year old masterpiece, you have nothing to do but ask. What's a 112 year old Triple Lock worth?? Don't know and don't care...UNLESS you got one you want to sell!!
 
Let me put this out there. I can see it both ways. On the one hand it is the natural flow of markets in a somewhat free economy. On the other hand I see it as profiteering because Mike is proposing making money off of the Anti-Gun side of the fight winning. He is looking at making a profit off our collective loss of our rights. Sorry but that does not stick well with me. It is exploitative. He is betting that our side is going to lose and when we do he is going to profit from that loss. Its playing both sides of against the middle.

I understand the motivation to have more than enough and if you can sell later something that you don't need for profit is attractive. I understand what you are saying but the cold hard reality is that he is going to one day sell someone a $500 AR15 for $1000 or $1500 because that person feels the need to defend themselves and that have no other choice but to pay a market price created not by the open and free market but by restrictive regulation of our fundamental rights. We we see a 10 year ban again some of the people who will pay the premium are younger new shooters who are too young to vote and too young to a gun now. It isn't just going to be fence sitters. It is going to be people who have had their rights stripped from them through no fault of their own.


Oh we don’t disagree, but what he, and any of us are doing, is just wise. Knowing Mike, what will probably happen is he will use his surplus to make up for any lack that he finds himself in...he has an extra lower? Cool, he can trade it for my extra upper. Basically a $50 lower being traded for a $300 complete upper because I wasn’t smart enough to set aside a few.

I’m not personally stockpiling things for others or to make money from, but I guaranty that I’ll enjoy selling extra mags for the new “normal” price if they become rare. >especially< since the writing is on the wall.

As was mentioned, what is coming is well known and expected. Planning for that is smart, and having an investment gain because of proper preparation is smart. This isn’t like selling life preservers on a sinking ship, it’s like selling umbrellas before the rain hits.


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I’m buying bucket list items and reloading supplies. If I find a good deal, I’ll grab it though.
 
Oh...and apparently all of the firearms I want are in Raleigh, Charlotte, or Hickory...and my butt is unable to get more than 30 mins from Greensboro at any given time.


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Oh...and apparently all of the firearms I want are in Raleigh, Charlotte, or Hickory...and my butt is unable to get more than 30 mins from Greensboro at any given time.


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If something you want is in Hickory, allz you gots ta do is have them drop it off with me and I’ll bring it to you next time I am in Winston.
 
To the point of those stocking up to sell in future shortages, the people buying at the higher prices down the road had the same chance we all do now to stock up on the cheap. Hardship exceptions aside, they could choose to not get a new phone, not go out to eat, not get saddled with a new car payment when the old car runs fine. I have limited sympathy for them.

To the hardship question, when things got crazy after Sandy Hook, I sold my stash of PMags for the whopping price of $20 each. The vast majority of them were resold within hours for triple that. One guy I met from the Triad told me how he’d been out of work for a year with back surgery and had just bought an AR to shoot with his 13-year old daughter but now couldn’t find mags. I sold him 15 at $15 each. Imagine his surprise when I walked into the Winston gun show a few days later to find him selling them on his table for insane money. I wish I had a picture of his speechless face. It did teach me a lesson about believing strangers’ hardship stories, or at least their ability to resist a quick buck so they can shoot with their kids.
 
I buy a pound of powder, a box of bullets, primers, brass every chance I get. I'm good with the guns right now. I have more than I can feed. :D
 
I am all for making a profit in just about all endeavors but I don't like the idea of eaten our own. I also hate it when I talk to a new shooter that was taken advantage of by a store or an individual because they panic bought.

"Life" is a tough but effective teacher. New Shooter didn't have to panic buy. "Life" teaches us that these things run in cycles. New Shooter could have waited or prepared better. It's not like the new civil war has started already.
Mike prepared. New Shooter did not. Best lessons learned and long remembered are the ones "Life" teaches. And if New Shooter doesn't listen to "Life".....well there's always Darwin. I'm a fan of both.

Good on Mike for thinking ahead and turning a profit. Got no sympathy for New Shooter but hope he learned a valuable lesson.
 
Nevermind, Carry on.
 
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I was pretty well set on weapons and ammo until the horrible boat accident.

And now with unemployment as high as it is, I can't afford to replace any of them.

Woe is to me......
 
Trump has been good for gun nutz and the 2nd. Not so great for sellers it seems, except cheaper prices probably encourage more purchases. I picked up a new S&W compact 2 in 40 because it was stupid cheap. Never really liked them but it's a solid weapon. And what a deal! The liberal mindset is self corroding and the gun hating neurosis is losing credibility along with the rest of their dopey ideals. Left headed people with half a brain, young and old, are losing faith and finding out guns are fun and useful . The pathetic range of Democratic candidates makes them think a little, as does all the terribly crooked political perversions of justice against the system itself to hurt Trump these past 4 years or so. That deeper concern might evoke more sympathy for the man himself in his sincere, if awkward, patriotic crusade. The so called economy is an over inflated ponzi scheme that could blow up in any or several directions at once that would call for ''emergency measures" to restore "order", a reset currency and new FDR type messiah. That might put a damper on things.
 
My wife says I'm a hoarder of anything and everything that's gun related. I stock pile everything. With the condition of the world today with the dumocrats trying every was thy can to ban our guns and take away our freedoms and the foreign world leaders doing the same, Hell yes I'm a hoarder. President Trump has done more for this country than any president since Ronald Reagan. Do I support him hell yes I do .Will I continue to hoard? Well what do you think.
 
Whats funny to me is considering what it "hoarding" to some. I know some of yall would panic if you "only" had the amount of magazines and ammo I have...and then there are some who would probably be astonished I have stacked it as high.
 
Whats funny to me is considering what it "hoarding" to some. I know some of yall would panic if you "only" had the amount of magazines and ammo I have...and then there are some who would probably be astonished I have stacked it as high.
If you know how many mags you have then it's not enough. :D
 
I'm not a hoarder. I keep a fair supply of ammo on hand. Mostly for range use, but also for hunting or the unlikely event that the zombies rise up.

I try to keep a 2 year supply of 22lr on hand. I was in good shape prior to the Sandy Hook scare, and afterwards, I stocked back up to the same level.

As far as guns go, I have everything that I need. Now I'm mostly just looking for those bucket list guns that would be nice to own, or upgrading things I have to a better version. I'd like to get a 2.5" Smith Model 19 or 686 with adjustable sights, and a 4" 629. I debate picking up an M1A now and then, or building another 308 bolt gun.
 
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