Calfed wrote:
I'm looking forward to picking this one up from my FFL, but the whole Wuhan virus thing has slowed everything down to a crawl.
It's the same here in Rhode Island. The gun stores are still open and the outdoor rifle ranges are still running. At the onset there was a mad dash to buy guns. One of the local police department that runs mandatory background checks for gun purchases went from 30 to 40 checks a week to 411 in one week. The governor extended the waiting period by executive order from seven to thirty days so the background check folks could catch up. The gun store about a mile from my house had only 3 handguns left for sale and about 60% of the long gun had sold within the first week or two of the onset.
Early on, I stopped by one of the gun stores for some CCI Standard Velocity 22 ammo. The store is in Warwick, RI. The store is about 60 feet long and about 30 feet deep. When I went there for the 22's there had to of been 50 customers in the place not counting the clerks. I just left and ordered the ammo from Smoky Mountain Knife Works. I wouldn't go near another gun store for quite a while. I am still buying C&R stuff off of Gunbroker. I have plenty to shoot and since most of the local gun store shelves are empty of ammo and guns it's probably best just to stay away.
I'm expecting the used collectible gun prices to fall as we progress with the Chrono virus. Lot's of people are out of work and just don't have the money to buy stuff or need the money so they will sell at a good price. Fortunately I have plenty of ammo for quality range time for well into the foreseeable and beyond. That's an off shoot of casting my own bullets and having an ample supply of powder and primers.
I'm working from home at this point. There's no lay off any where in my future. I am in one of the critical industries. It seems that we have every regulatory agency screwing with us in the good times and they've all backed at this point. The chemicals that we sell provide sanitation for at least half of the drinking water and wastewater facilities in New England as well as nitrous oxide emission reduction treatment for power plants and food processing. Nobody wants to see my facility shut done due to Chrono virus. There's not to many who want to play with the stuff that we work with so finding qualified help is very tough in the best of times. The cool thing about my line of work is that we have all of the protective gear and respirators. Everybody at the facility is trained to protect themselves dangerous chemicals and inhalation hazards and it's pretty much the same gear as for a virus. There's really not a lot of protection in a N95 mask and a pair of 4 mil thick nitrile gloves. How safe would you feel if you were told to fill drums with 93% sulfuric acid by weight with that amount of protection. It's pretty much the same with the virus.
The faster I go, the older I get.
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