Originally Posted by
AKS-74U
I think most companies overproduced during the elections and now they're sitting on piles of unsold rifles. I guess you could stash a few away for speculation purposes, but you might not be able to unload them for a long time.
This is probably a big part of it for many manufacturers. Bills need to get paid and they're sitting on back-stock left over from panic preparation. I don't necessarily fault them. We didn't know what would happen in November. Either did they. Yes, had Killiary won, the mfgs would have been moving product at a serious pace. And they'd have likely made out pretty well in the short run. But, had the she-devil won, they may have been hurting just as bad as the consumer in the long run.
So, for the industry, it was almost a "6 in 1, half-dozen in the other" scenario. Either way they were likely going to take a hit at some point. I wouldn't be surprised if other mfgs have been doing the same. Or will do the same in the near future. The market is definitely going to experience some "calibration".
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