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General Categories => General Firearm Discussion => Topic started by: DaveB on December 18, 2012, 05:20:52 AM
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They say in respect to the school shooting. Who do they think they are fooling? There is already a shortage of AR's to find and prices have shot way up. They are keeping their inventory to make a killing off of legal gun owners later when they are the only ones to have any left.
I have never shopped at a Dicks, and if my thoughts are correct on this, I never will.
http://www.kshb.com/dpp/money/business_news/cnn-report-dicks-sporting-goods-pulling-some-sem-automatic-guns-from-stores (http://www.kshb.com/dpp/money/business_news/cnn-report-dicks-sporting-goods-pulling-some-sem-automatic-guns-from-stores)
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IMO Dick's is a poor excuse for a gun store anyway. They have a miniscule selection and refuse to stock handguns. There are better places to spend our money.
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Maybe I'm having a Blonde momnet...but what problem does this solve? And removing all firearms from their nearest store to Newtown out of respect??? Wonder if they will close their Golf section next time someone is beat to death with a 5 iron. I question Wally World's motivation, too as they are still carrying the SIG and COLT M4s......
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I see too that on Cheaper than Dirt they stopped all their firearms stuff online.....
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Cheaper than Dirt has also suspended firearms sales. I forgave them for their recent price-gouging unpleasantness, but not for this. If we don't all hang together, we shall, most certainly, hang separately.
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It's interesting to see which businesses actually support us and which don't. I never trusted Dick's as I saw them as PC. I don't trust PC.
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Buy from small shops, give them the business. Almost all of my firearm purchases have been from small businesses, even if I've had to pay an extra few percent...I've been glad to do it every time.
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Now Freedom is selling off Bushmaster, Walmart pulling 'AR Style Rifles' from their shelves.
Imma gonna go put on my shiny hat, as I see this heading down a dangerous slope. By their actions, these companies are pleading guilty and the antis will take this and run with it. All the while the NRA is taking the 'high road' and not commenting 'until all the facts are put together' That's all fine and warmhearted, put in the meantime the antis and folks in DC have taken what info they have, spun it into a tight web of deceit and already convinced the general liberal public that gun are to blame. !
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Cheaper than dirt is selling guns, Walmart has announced they are just out, Dicks was never a gun store in the first place.
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My uncle went to Cabela's earlier, and he talked to one of the guys he knew about getting an AR-15. The guy told him that these orders were going to be suspended after they sell what they have. My aunt and uncle also have a house in Minnesota, and they said the same thing is happening with those gun shops as well. This is not good news...
I had heard that Cabela's was standing strong. Sad to hear that they're not. Scheel's has joined the anti-AR-15 crowd too, apparently.
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Lots of rumors and misinformed sales people out there right now. Remember that as we run into these things, management may say once we sell out of AR-15's it may be quite a while before we can get any more, then a sales person takes that as we won't be selling them any more.
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My uncle went to Cabela's earlier, and he talked to one of the guys he knew about getting an AR-15. The guy told him that these orders were going to be suspended after they sell what they have. My aunt and uncle also have a house in Minnesota, and they said the same thing is happening with those gun shops as well. This is not good news...
Completely false. We are just completely out of them and it's near impossible to get from the manufacturers now. Not to mention our distribution centers are the ones that get them and then ship them to us, so they have to be allocated to stores. Cabela's is not part of the "anti-ar crowd" and I'm 99.99% sure Scheels isn't either. People are blowing this out of proportion.
If people think that because the AR's are no longer on the shelves at Cabela's or Scheels means we are discontinuing their sale then they are far from the truth. The reason shelves are empty is because the entire city is sold out. Received well over 100 calls yesterday at Cabela's and they were all people asking if we had AR's left or wanting to know when we would get more, and we don't know when we will get more.
BTW even the ridiculously expensive ones (Black Rain) sold out within a couple hours yesterday.
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Stopped in to sol's downtown this morning. Saw there were no AR-15's. The guy there said they took them down and put them in back. I asked why and he didn't know. There were still plenty of AK's.
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Stopped in to sol's downtown this morning. Saw there were no AR-15's. The guy there said they took them down and put them in back. I asked why and he didn't know. There were still plenty of AK's.
Investments. They will not loose value and they may continue to gain value. I'm sure there is plenty of that going on.
CTD is a bunch of Dbags, but I do not believe they were "caving" when they suspended sales, after talking to a few FFLs. With such a high volume of recent sales and practically nothing in stock, they likely wanted to take a few minutes to sort out paperwork, as they have to answer to the top Dbags: the BATFE.
As stated above: Dicks never was a gun store.
Scheels and Cabelas are just out. Everyone is out. I had an offer of $400 for a stripped lower from someone with an FFL out in the sandhills. Demand has risen and supply has been expended, save for the market hoarders and extreme price gougers. I am sure that volume of production will increase, though probably not enough, and with significant lag time.
Stay frosty gents. No bill will be passed overnight. Hell, after the holidays the masses will likely have found something else to obsess about and any anti-gun bill will be ignored or suppressed, just as in previous years. Instead of spending money on panic buying, since there is nothing to buy, donate to the NRA, NFOA, SAF, GOA, etc.
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Well then Brad, maybe employees like you need to tell customers that, because I read your post, and then decided to go to Cabela's (between 1:30-3:30) to see if my uncle was misinformed. While inquiring about a gun that I wanted to purchase, I talked with a gentleman in the Gun Library who told me that they were going to sell again, but not until the "incident" has died down. I talked with another individual that told me that they were "overswamped" and had to resupply, and then I overheard two men next to me later asking the same thing to an employee, who responded by saying that he doesn't know if they will get another shipment.
I'm not blaming you, I'm saying that over the course of this visit today, I heard 3 varying accounts. Now maybe these certain employees didn't work in the gun department, I don't know. But, when you have these varying accounts, can you really blame various gun enthusiasts who go to Cabela's, hear this, and then think this is another "Cheaper than Dirt/Walmart/Dick's" debacle?
With that said, I'm glad to hear that Cabela's hasn't gone the Dick's Sporting Goods route.
Gun library is separate from the gun counter. I know for a fact they all know we are going to eventually get more in. None of them to my knowledge have even heard of companies discontinuing selling AR's since the Connecticut incident so that is not right. What one person says can be interpreted many different ways. "We are out of stock and not sure when we are getting more in" is a common response we all have and some people might interpret that as, "they might never get any more in." People are overlooking responses and assuming the worst in companies. Nobody has even put in our head the thought of discontinuing sales of AR-15s. And the "not until the incident has died down" can be interpreted different ways.
1. People may believe we are not going to sell them until the whole discussion on Connecticut dies down.
2. We aren't able to get any ARs until this madness is over with because there is extremely limited availability.
Number 2 above is what they mean, and I have probably said that to people too.
People tend to overlook things out of fear...
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I've been into a Dick's store a few times and never was impressed with it. But if I ever do feel like going into one in the future I'll make it a point not to. Whenever any business takes the side of those who levy war on the 2nd Amendment (or any other part of the Constitution) all patriots should avoid doing business with it. Gun control is more morally repugnant than racist bigotry and class warfare, because all of the oppression, slavery, and genocides committed because of those two things was made possible by the victims having been disarmed. The hands of anti-gun bigots are filthy with innocent blood, and the authors of our Constitution knew that. So those who seek to disarm us should be treated as pariahs, and so should those who give those traitors aid and comfort. So you won't be seeing me at a Dick's store.
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Sounds like a buncha Dick's to me.
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Stopped in to Sports Authority yesterday to look for a beanie and took a spin past the gun counter, as small as it is, no EBR's in stock. No one was around to ask whether they had sold all of them or sold out.
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Excerpt from a New York Daily News article... RE: Brownell's sales..
"Gun owners have fired up “unprecedented” sales of assault weapon ammo in the days after the carnage at a Connecticut elementary school.
Brownells, the world’s largest supplier of firearms accessories, announced less than a week after the Dec. 14 tragedy that it had sold 3-1/2 years worth of magazines for the AR-15 assault rifle in just 72 hours."
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ammo-supplier-sees-unprecedented-sale-ar-15-magazines-article-1.1226536#ixzz2Fz8JJUNU (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ammo-supplier-sees-unprecedented-sale-ar-15-magazines-article-1.1226536#ixzz2Fz8JJUNU)
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Stopped in to sol's downtown this morning. Saw there were no AR-15's. The guy there said they took them down and put them in back. I asked why and he didn't know. There were still plenty of AK's.
I stopped in Sols on 72nd and Maple last Friday and they had their AR inventory out loud and proud...and carrying $2,300 price tags Seriously, an Olympic Arms carbine was $2,300. Others were even higher. Right now, they are the only place in town I can find them. I wasn't even looking for 'em to buy, I have mine tucked away in the safe. I was actually looking for a High Point Carbine. I bought a rifle and a shotgun at Cabela's Friday afternoon and the High Points were still there, should have bought one then. I went this morning and I was too late.
On a side note, I did a little Ebay browsing today, and if you get really bored, check out how many AR mags are being sold...and how much people are paying for them.
After seeing the prices Sol's is trying to get for ARs (and yep, they are selling them at that price), I respect my local Cabela's store even more. They may be out of what I want at the moment, but at least they didn't jack prices up during all this.
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I am going to laugh when this blows over and all the hoarders and panickers lose thousands.
Obama is the #1 gun seller that has ever existed and I am now convinced he works for the gun companies. After his elected term he will be the president of the NRA.
I have never seen a president with so much hype that incites fear and panic and never amounts to anything.
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Investments. They will not loose value and they may continue to gain value. I'm sure there is plenty of that going on.
CTD is a bunch of Dbags, but I do not believe they were "caving" when they suspended sales, after talking to a few FFLs. With such a high volume of recent sales and practically nothing in stock, they likely wanted to take a few minutes to sort out paperwork, as they have to answer to the top Dbags: the BATFE.
As stated above: Dicks never was a gun store.
Scheels and Cabelas are just out. Everyone is out. I had an offer of $400 for a stripped lower from someone with an FFL out in the sandhills. Demand has risen and supply has been expended, save for the market hoarders and extreme price gougers. I am sure that volume of production will increase, though probably not enough, and with significant lag time.
Stay frosty gents. No bill will be passed overnight. Hell, after the holidays the masses will likely have found something else to obsess about and any anti-gun bill will be ignored or suppressed, just as in previous years. Instead of spending money on panic buying, since there is nothing to buy, donate to the NRA, NFOA, SAF, GOA, etc.
I like this ^ guy.
I would sell a stripped lower for $400 RIGHT NOW- so if anyone needs a seriously last minute Christmas gift let me know......
That Brownell's article tells you about all you need to know. I am cautiously optimistic that no major FEDERAL restrictions will pass Congress. I can see Obungo limiting imports via Exec Order and the ATF getting creative in some regulations. I also fully expect certain states to pass draconian measures the most certainly will INFRINGE.
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On a side note, I did a little Ebay browsing today, and if you get really bored, check out how many AR mags are being sold...and how much people are paying for them.
Don't have to go far to find this sort of thing happening.
http://omaha.craigslist.org/spo/3499722701.html (http://omaha.craigslist.org/spo/3499722701.html)
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Woot! Cabela's got a .45 High Point in this morning! My credit card is holding it until I can get over there this evening :) Man, I love this store!
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Troy Industries issued this statement earlier today regarding the decision by big box store Dick’s Sporting Goods to abruptly suspend sales of Modern Sporting Rifles after the tragic shooting in Newtown, CT earlier this month.
Troy Defense (Troy), a division a Troy Industries, Inc., was deeply dismayed and shocked to hear through national media outlets that Dick’s Sporting Goods (DSG) made the decision to stop selling the Troy Carbine along with other modern sporting rifles. DSG did not contact or inform Troy of this decision prior to notifying the public. Nor was Troy informed by DSG that cancellation letters were being sent to customers, set to arrive on Christmas Eve (a day Troy was closed).
Troy has invested millions of dollars in its facility and operations to bring its first ever modern sporting rifle to the market under an exclusive contract with DSG. In selecting DSG as the sole distributor of the Troy Carbine, Troy relied on DSG’s high sales forecasts and sales potential prior to undertaking the significant financial and corporate commitment necessary to design, develop, manufacture and bring a new modern sporting rifle to the marketplace. Based on DSG’s press release, DSG’s anti-gun stance is clear – DSG will not continue modern sporting rifle sales and Troy will sadly not see its Carbine readily available — despite the outlay of millions of dollars by Troy and its commitment to support DSG in its distribution efforts.
Troy is currently researching other channels to ensure continuous and consistent distribution for its rifles. But please note, Troy’s pricing to DSG was based upon volume sales. It is unlikely that pricing to any other outlet in the future will support the pricing granted to DSG. Troy understands the anger of certain DSG customers whose purchases have been cancelled – you got a great price from DSG. However, Troy, itself, cannot come anywhere close to offering the Carbine at the price DSG was offering it. DSG devalued and diluted Troy’s brand when it offered for sale the Carbine at a steeply discounted price during Thanksgiving week. As a result of the sale price set by DSG, DSG oversold and overpromised its inventory. Nonetheless, the current ill-will could have been avoided had DSG not terminated modern sporting rifle sales, promptly canceled overpromised orders, and forthrightly communicated with Troy.
Troy is hopeful that it will soon identify a new distribution channel for its Carbine. We ask for your patience and support during this difficult and transitory time.
Best regards,
Stephen Troy
CEO & Founder
The Troy Group
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Woot! Cabela's got a .45 High Point in this morning! My credit card is holding it until I can get over there this evening :) Man, I love this store!
Think I was the one that sold it to you...
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I wondered if that was you :) I ended up getting a delay on the check, but likely due to buying two other rifles there last Friday. I only get delayed when I make repetitive purchases within a few days. But, the delay cleared this morning and its in the back room all cleaned, lubed and ready to have a few rounds put through it!
Thanks again for your help. You guys do an awesome job out there!