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Are the prices ever coming down on components?!
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<blockquote data-quote="arch408" data-source="post: 2498793" data-attributes="member: 59036"><p>We vote for people who are supposed to represent us citizens. Unfortunately, they don't. They only represent their own ideals or align with political party lines. The last two years pretty much destroyed our economy and what industry we had left (try to find American made products). During the Obama administration, the last lead mine and smelter had to shut down because they could not economically abide with EPA regulations. Well, guess what guys, lead is a major part of the shooting industry. All lead now has to be imported, as well as a lot of our powders. So now we have manufacturing, transportation, storage, and added tariffs and taxes. And now the powers to be have limited our access to fuel which raised the price to (us) consumers. So lead which is used to make primers and bullets cost more manufacture plus fuel prices increased 30%. Costs are passed on the consumer. Couple that with the law of supply and demand. Demand has outpaced supply. So no one has to put supplies on sale. Hoarding only increases inflation. Stocking up should have been done when prices were low. Larry Potterfield sure cost me a lot of money back in the 80's and 90's. They sold a lot in "bulk". I was able to amass probably life time supplies of bullets and brass. Granted they aren't state of the art now, today, but they still work. I wasn't hoarding, I was stocking up. I don't think that prices will ever return to what they were even ten years ago. I only wish that I had stocked up on large pistol primers. My 9mm's and 40 S&W's definitely get more use than my 10mm and .45ACP and i've cut back on them to conserve my stocks. So don't over buy. Only purchase what you need. Don't hoard. Let supply catch up with demand. Then maybe prices will come down (some). </p><p>Good luck!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="arch408, post: 2498793, member: 59036"] We vote for people who are supposed to represent us citizens. Unfortunately, they don’t. They only represent their own ideals or align with political party lines. The last two years pretty much destroyed our economy and what industry we had left (try to find American made products). During the Obama administration, the last lead mine and smelter had to shut down because they could not economically abide with EPA regulations. Well, guess what guys, lead is a major part of the shooting industry. All lead now has to be imported, as well as a lot of our powders. So now we have manufacturing, transportation, storage, and added tariffs and taxes. And now the powers to be have limited our access to fuel which raised the price to (us) consumers. So lead which is used to make primers and bullets cost more manufacture plus fuel prices increased 30%. Costs are passed on the consumer. Couple that with the law of supply and demand. Demand has outpaced supply. So no one has to put supplies on sale. Hoarding only increases inflation. Stocking up should have been done when prices were low. Larry Potterfield sure cost me a lot of money back in the 80’s and 90’s. They sold a lot in “bulk”. I was able to amass probably life time supplies of bullets and brass. Granted they aren’t state of the art now, today, but they still work. I wasn’t hoarding, I was stocking up. I don’t think that prices will ever return to what they were even ten years ago. I only wish that I had stocked up on large pistol primers. My 9mm’s and 40 S&W’s definitely get more use than my 10mm and .45ACP and i’ve cut back on them to conserve my stocks. So don’t over buy. Only purchase what you need. Don’t hoard. Let supply catch up with demand. Then maybe prices will come down (some). Good luck! [/QUOTE]
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