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    I don't have everything I want but I have everything I'm comfortable spending money on. Whatever happens happens

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    Quote Originally Posted by Straight Shooter View Post
    When I buy in bulk...aka.."stock up"..I dont buy anything thats "shit". Prices are, and have been for years now, too good to do that.
    If you havent already been buying everything, then its your fault if the election goes south. Youll be paying Sandy Hook X2 prices then.
    There are, today, UNREAL deals still out there, and for at least until summer should continue to be.
    Yep. Y'all had four straight years to stock up on shit during a time when it's been largely a "Trump Slump" buyer's market. No excuse you shouldn't have excess inventory. Wish I bought more stuff to flip when/if shit goes south.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Warp View Post
    Not sure if this belongs in here, but

    A case of M193 will not be $800 in 9 months. It will take a D majority white house, house, senate to make that maybe happen. That said, for most people, I am pretty confident that if their supplies of firearms and related items were locked in, ammo would be their limiting factor. It should be most people's top priority IMO unless they are and admitted collector through and through

    Most overrated stock up item: Magazines. Few people will shoot enough to wear out the magazines they have, and besides, even if a capacity ban was passed, but you were able to continue to shoot your stocked or buy more ammo through your rifles that you still have, to the point of wearing out mags, you could just do most training and practice with the restricted mags to keep your standard caps ready for more important things.

    Trump has already passed more 'gun control' than 8 years of FBHO so not sure how relevant him winning or not really is.

    Having stripped lowers doesn't do much good when it would cost you a year's salary to build them all into complete firearms at the panic market prices. Despite popular jabs to the contrary, the grabbers aren't stupid, they recognize that when they get the clout to pass things, they will need to do more than simply ban the sale of new serialized firearms, they will go after parts on way or the other so you can't just build otherwise prohibited rifles out of a $35 stripped lower...or at least make it difficult and expensive to do so. I mean hell there have already been proposed laws with wording so (likely intentionally) bad that putting putting an ALG trigger into your rifle would be illegal.



    Stock up on? Spare parts for firearms I own. A merely-adequate number of quality magazines, maybe a handful of extras. More ammo and reloading components. A couple stripped lowers in case the old route there is a thing again for a time.
    Perception is everything. I'd say the majority of the gun-buying public and/or people that were on the fence about buying a gun, just see Democrat = gun ban while Republican = savior of the 2A that's going to disband the ATF and reverse every gun restriction known.
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    I've got a small amount of ammo squirreled away for a rainy day. I'm actually in the process of switching it from ball ammo to good stuff. When that's done/slightly more done than it is now, I'll probably pick up bulk buys of 5.56, 7.62x51, and .45. Probably 9mm too, if I end up picking up the M17 I want.
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    Quote Originally Posted by VIP3R 237 View Post
    If you are just now stocking up then you are way behind the curve...

    And yet, at current prices and supply, it's a great time to be doing just that

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    Quote Originally Posted by Warp View Post
    And yet, at current prices and supply, it's a great time to be doing just that
    I agree, I just chuckle at those who have waited until now when we’ve had record low prices for a few years.
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    I’m good on supplies.

    Democrats just need to put their red coats on and start the party.

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    After 2004 I stocked up on (too) many AR mags. I'm set there.

    Last few years I've not panicked, but I've acquired hi cap pistols and mags, 9mm carbines and mags, an M4, a couple of complete lowers; just things that might become scarce.

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    Trump is not a 2A savior. I don't know why people keep believing that. Support him on the economy or other policies sure. Guns? 2A? Please. If he gets re-elected it'll only be because he'll be the lesser of the two evils just like the first time. I'll end it here as these discussions are reserved for the GD.
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    This thread is not about politics or the boogaloo.

    This thread is about which parts may be scarce come election time. Frankly, I see prices going up by some flippers trying to make a buck but I think gun owners are mostly tapped out based on current pricing. Thus the market won’t move too much unless a “Hell yes we’re taking your AR15” Dem is actually elected. In that case, the purpose of this thread was to guess which parts would be hard to find. I don’t think anyone would have guessed a school shooting in 2012 would have led to a year’s shortage of BCGs and .22LR of all things.

    Anyone who wants to discuss politics and whether or not a Dem will pass anti-2A laws can go to the GD echo chamber and do just that

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