I bought a new gun.

I’d say the curve of the bubble encompasses a couple years, from ramp-up, to fear, to panic, to gradually-released tension. A lot of the ‘edgier’ guys were loath to surrender their pet conspiracy theory (“First, the rimfire will be banned/taxed/priced out of reach, then the centerfire cartridges!”).
But yeah, it’s on the shelves. .22 WRM is what’s hard to find, these days. :stuck_out_tongue:
Edit:
Oh, and speculations by retailers didn’t help any. They’d recieve a case, put half on the shelves and regulate the sale (“one brick per customer of the cheap stuff, but if you buy a firearm, you can also buy two bricks of the good stuff!”*), then they’d put the rest for sale on-line at inflated prices.

  • saw that with my own eyes at a local shop

It takes a confident man to give his ex-wife a long gun in the divorce. :smiley:

She’s an excellent shot, thanks to Soviet-era middle school training. I’ll never feel a thing, so I don’t care.

I bought a Ruger LCR on a whim today. Got the .22lr. Sweet little gun.

Only if she doesn’t want you to feel a thing. :eek:

I’m trying to get myself motivated to sell some of my guns. I think the first will be my ‘Red 9’ Broomhandle Mauser, and my 1916(?) Colt’s Government Model.