First the ammo now the guns????

[GomezMunoz1951]

I have been going through a lot of the dealers and it seems like everything is out of stock. I was looking for a .31 Remington Pocket pistol steel frame and they are out of stock. I went through Taylors and almost every gun is out of stock. What is going on? First the ammo now the guns... (Entering the taboo area) I am also looking for a self defense handgun for my wife and they are even hard to find without paying outrageous amounts of money.

This sucks

 

[FishDFly]

Supply and demand.

 

[PathfinderNC]

There may be a newly built .54 Flintlock rifle (Kibler) on the market soon

 

[forty_caliber]

Probably have better luck finding something used. Use up some shoe leather and check your LGS and pawn shops. I've been collecting/accumulating firearms for 40 years. Given the seller's market conditions, I've sold a few off. I'm sure others are doing the same.

.40

 

[rafterob]

Or just wait it out. Last time around it was a good 6-9 months before the supply started coming back up.

 

[Hawken]

I watched the percussion revolvers dry up almost completely last summer, maybe into the fall sometime, don't think the supply ever recovered but stopped looking anyway once it became clear everything had went sideways.

 

[nhmoose]

Don't sleep so long been a commin' for a year or more but that involves polotics so not here to discuss

 

[sourdough]

Or just wait it out. Last time around it was a good 6-9 months before the supply started coming back up.

The "last time" was prior to the pandemic. Northern Italy has been hit hard with Covid and the new anecdotal info is that both Uberti and Pietta will resume production in April. I am not holding my breath. That is why no dealers have any inventory from them, and that is why revolvers on the used market are commanding a premium. As has been pointed out previously, supply and demand. I just won at auction a Navy Arms/Pietta Spiller & Burr (BL/1998) for $355. Pre-pandemic these guns were plentiful and available for less than $275. There are none available from any dealers these days.

If you want revolvers these days, you will have to pay the current going prices.

Imagine what it would be like if both Uberti and Pietta went under. What would your inventory be worth?

A brand new replica revolver collecting world.

Regards,

Jim

 

[smoothshooter]

Have you been keeping up with world events?
Reading or watching the news?

 

[smoothshooter]

Don't sleep so long been a commin' for a year or more but that involves polotics so not here to discuss

And then there is this virus thing . . . . . .

 

[Mulebrain]

I have been going through a lot of the dealers and it seems like everything is out of stock. I was looking for a .31 Remington Pocket pistol steel frame and they are out of stock. I went through Taylors and almost every gun is out of stock. What is going on? First the ammo now the guns... (Entering the taboo area) I am also looking for a self defense handgun for my wife and they are even hard to find without paying outrageous amounts of money.

This sucks

I will tell you whats going on, people are scared, and many are expecting all hell to break lose. The pressure on modern guns, has landed on black powders door step.

I do see Midway USA has some 1858's in stock

 

[Darto]

The steel frame pocket Remy '63 has been in rare supply for months before the pandemic hit. I am not sure why. I do know that for the last 4 years Old South had the best price on that particular gun. One of the last to still have it in stock was Taylors, but they ran out about a year ago.

They fit less powder in the cylinders than the Colt Pocket '48 and '49 and have slightly narrower chambers.
https://1858remington.com/index.php

 

[jonathan butcher]

I’d be interested!

There may be a newly built .54 Flintlock rifle (Kibler) on the market soon

 

[Sam squanch]

A gun shop 30 miles from me had 3 1849 .31 caliber ubertis for sale. They sold them all in 4 days! Nice concealable revolver. People are preparing for the worst right now.

 

[Stophel]

Are you simply not paying attention? How can you not see something major is going on.... and has been for a year now?

 

[KEDSFAN]

Have you been keeping up with world events?
Reading or watching the news?

Actually I stopped watching or reading anything from the Ministry of Propaganda months ago. I feel so much better now. I focus on hobbies and fun stuff even though we will all be dead soon from the flu.

 

[Art Caputo]

The perfect storm....virus....politics....anxiety.

 

[M. De Land]

Oh cheer up , it's always darkest before dawn and the sun is about to break the eastern horizon!

 

[smoothshooter]

Oh cheer up , it's always darkest before dawn and the sun is about to break the eastern horizon!

Not this time.
Sorry.

 

[Stophel]

I don't own one single pair of rose-colored glasses, myself.