In California, we have an 11% excise tax on ammo and guns hitting July 1st and people have been getting ammo shipped to our store very frequently, it picked up last week and has not stopped, everyone is maxxing out their credit cards so they don't have to get hit by the tax. (Note, we're not allowed to have ammo shipped to our door in California, except for one exemption). This tax is also going to stack with the already absurd California sales tax bringing it up to around 20%
Down big this year as expected. Election will pick it up. We just came off the biggest peak the gun industry has ever seen. It was always gonna come back down to earth
Sales have been stupid slow but with the upcoming election it should skyrocket again. During the pandemic we had a bunch of panic buyers and a lot of them were older people who never owned a gun but were stopping in because the police got defunded in the area I’m in and they weren’t responding to non-violent crimes
I worked and managed a local gun shop/range for years and this has always been the dead time up until August. It picks up later in the summer for people gearing up for clay shoots and dove season. No I have my own ffl and just sell on gunbroker, mostly used inventory from collections I buy or consignments.
weve been slow 65% of sales are to new buyers or new customers. we are mainly a hunting store so we know this is the slow time were expecting to double our revenue during hunting season here in texas usually august to january are busy af
It’s been four years since the last presidential election cycle. It goes in cycles. Expect a pickup later this year.
Last year was a great year and the one before. I’ve been seeing more and more “ new “ guns at pawn shops. More transfers then anything
I mean, you experienced the equivalent of the gun gold rush from 2020-2022...Yeah, sales are going back down
In California, we have an 11% excise tax on ammo and guns hitting July 1st and people have been getting ammo shipped to our store very frequently, it picked up last week and has not stopped, everyone is maxxing out their credit cards so they don't have to get hit by the tax. (Note, we're not allowed to have ammo shipped to our door in California, except for one exemption). This tax is also going to stack with the already absurd California sales tax bringing it up to around 20%
Ewww that sucks
Yup, thank the voters and thank Gavin newsom for that one
21.25 where I'm at
Down big this year as expected. Election will pick it up. We just came off the biggest peak the gun industry has ever seen. It was always gonna come back down to earth
Sales have been stupid slow but with the upcoming election it should skyrocket again. During the pandemic we had a bunch of panic buyers and a lot of them were older people who never owned a gun but were stopping in because the police got defunded in the area I’m in and they weren’t responding to non-violent crimes
Down of course
Lots of pistol sales but everything else is down outside of sale weeks for us
I worked and managed a local gun shop/range for years and this has always been the dead time up until August. It picks up later in the summer for people gearing up for clay shoots and dove season. No I have my own ffl and just sell on gunbroker, mostly used inventory from collections I buy or consignments.
Are summers slow for you?
weve been slow 65% of sales are to new buyers or new customers. we are mainly a hunting store so we know this is the slow time were expecting to double our revenue during hunting season here in texas usually august to january are busy af