Paranoia Has Its Limits As Gun Sales Slump

Market Watch ^ | 5-20-2014 | Steve Goldstein

[blam]

Dick

[Ken H]

Some stats =>

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Jan 04, 2012

For the year [2011] there were 16,454,951 background checks. That's two million more than the record set in 2010.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/guns/december-2011-smash-gun-sales-records

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Dec 11, 2012

2012 has been a record setting year for gun sales. As of November, the FBI recorded 16,808,538 instant background checks for gun purchases for 2012.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/guns-america-statistical/story?id=17939758

[jsanders2001]

The real reason guns sale are slumping. The price of everything has gone up so high under Obama’s reign that no one has any funds left over to buy guns.

[Ken H]

January 07, 2014

The total number of background checks conducted for gun sales last year [2013] add up to 21,093,273, beating the previous 2012 record of 19,592,303 by 1,500,970.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2014/01/07/2013-saw-record-gun-background-checks-n1772931

[mylife]

And those numbers do not reflect people with CHL licenses.

[Starstruck]

And by now even the most concerned of gun enthusiasts has concluded there’s nothing to fear.

Hey. Us paranoids got our guns early and often. We have nothing to fear now. We will wait for prices to come down and then accessorize.

[oldenuff2no]

The day dicks quit selling AR platform rifles is the day I quit shopping there. It is also the day I started telling every person I talked to at gun events that they also needed to spend their money with companies who support all of the shooting world.

If this company goes out of business tomorrow it is good with me.

[BudgieRamone]

Also note Dicks owns the Field and Stream stores.

[Finatic]

Hmm, I seem to recall Dicks Sporting Goods easily buying into new gun restrictions and so the Pro 2nd Amendment gang has collectively said SCREW YOU and we don’t shop your store any longer. Not for golf gear, not for kids sports leagues and especially NOT for hunting and shooting sports.

[muir_redwoods]

So apparently, in conflict with my life long experience, it might be possible for some people to buy enough guns

[expat2]

Gun sales were bound to drop somewhat after the very torrid pace in the last 2-3 years, but Dick’s has to be very low on a gun-buyer’s list of a good retailer.

[2111USMC]

It has a lot to do with Dick's feel good Newtown shooting policies.

"Dick’s Sporting Goods Faces Customer Outrage Over Gun Ban"

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/dicks-sporting-goods-faces-customer-outrage-over-gun-ban.html

Shooting sports enthusiasts all over the country got shafted by their corporate knee-jerk reaction and it still hasn't been forgotten.

Dick's made their own bed.

[SkyDancer]

Wuzzat?

[2111USMC]

You got it.

I will not darken their doorway.

[2111USMC]

http://radio.foxnews.com/toddstarnes/top-stories/dicks-sporting-goods-faces-customer-outrage-over-gun-ban.html

[Paladin2]

Semi-auto, evil looking, shotgun

[digger48]

The Dicks near me has about 30 guns on display (.22s and shotguns), almost no ammo and no handguns and no salesperson within 50 feet..

Go 8 miles down the road to Gander Mountain and let your jaw drop to the expanded firearms department with hundreds and hundreds of firearms of all shapes and sizes, huge floor displays of ammo, and at leat 10-12 well trained and informative associates willing to answer any question

[Myrddin]

Dicks (no apostrophe on purpose) decided to piss on the gun buying customers. They went elsewhere. It has nothing to do with "paranoia". It has to do with being dishonest with your customers. They deserve the hit to the bottom line.

[Eddie01]

OR...

Gun market saturated, revolt imminent.

[FreeInWV]

“The price of everything has gone up so high under Obama’s reign...”

Who would have ever thought .22 ammo would ever be this scarce or expensive?

http://ammoseek.com/ammo/22lr

[lavaroise]

Dicks is hardly a good example. It is being boycottes for removing ARs. And their gunsale staff is treated like crap and hates customers.