Are handguns slow to sell again??

Hypox!a said:
I tend to think the proposed handgun changes will not go through, or the changes will not be nearly as drastic as what they've said so far. AR's were low hanging fruit, there are 10x the amount of handguns out there in the possession of licensed individuals. And the owns also span much wider demographics across the population. It's exactly why they're trying to pass the buck to municipalities, the blow-back would be severe if it came directly from the Liberals. I think slow sales right now is more to do with people tightening the belt more than anything.
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I think you are correct. I digress here, but the number one hurdle to most aspiring law enforcement officers in this country is proficiency with a handgun.
Emergency first aid, gymnasiums and police sciences acedemics is well established here.
A handgun ban (and others too) will put a severe crimp upon aspiring recruits that desire to excel in future employment opportunities. Plus if a recruit is very familiar possibly proficient with a handgun, his carbine and riot gun training is going to be a snap.

My 2 bits.
 
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First, I highly doubt that proposed municipal gun bans will ever be constitutional. Feds cannot delegate criminal law to municipalities (entities created solely by Provinces as part constitutional powers of provinces that federals cannot touch). Similarly, provinces cannot make their own criminal law, so how the heck the entity below provincial level created by province can do that? They cannot.

Second, the solution is crazy impractical and can create liability to the municipalities. As municipality, I would never touch this subject because if something goes wrong (robbery of storage, killing with the gun stolen from storage, robbery to and from the storage), every lawyer in the country will sue that municipality. Right now, the responsibility is with the owner. If change is forced by municipality, that I would sue municipality if something goes wrong, because the liability will shift to them completely. Even if they try to shift liability to businesses (which as I business I would never take upon), they cannot do it 100% as they will have to do approvals, vetting, inspections, etc. Once a single robbery happens, every lawyer will make the municipality a defendant by default as the chance that the gun was stolen from storage facility mandated by the municipality cannot be ever ignored from that point on. The cost to municipality will be astronomical. It will be cheaper to hire few more cops and arrest all gang members in the municipality for that cost.

Therefore, I think it is more about bad economy and shut downs. Also, how many PAL and RPAL courses are running now with all that Covid cr*p?
 
If I want a new Handgun, I buy a new one. I have bought some used ones in the past but I don't (generally) wish to do that any more.

Why?

1) The EE prices are too high when compared to new.
2) New, means you don't have to be concerned about how much use (and abuse) the firearm has experienced.
3) Buying New, means more of them in circulation in the hands of responsible, licensed, owners.
4) The transfer times from private sales just seem to take forever (well not quite that long, but much longer than from dealers).
5) It eliminates the risk of sending money out and receiving less than promised.
 
I was actively looking for a high end pistol but have put things on hold for the time being. I’ll be using most of that money to support the CCFR and the upcoming election. There’s no point shelling out on a Gucci pistol if I can’t keep or use it.
 
I would say most of the pricing on handguns are high on EE, was looking for a S&W SW1911 E, there was 3 on EE and the price they were asking and me buying it brand new was about 175.00 difference, for 175.00 I will brand new over maybe buying someone else's problem
 
MisterJ said:
There was a really nice S&W .44 on the EE for a couple of weeks that I had my eye on. I just had to juggle some money around before I could go for it. Of course, by the time I was ready to go the seller had withdrawn the ad. Ah well, life goes on.
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If you remember the users name try to message him , it might still be for sale . I just bought a gun that the listing had been removed but it was still for sale . I think he had a SW 44 for sale as well .
 
Honestly, I haven't seen anything great pop up except an STI Perfect 10. Unfortunately I wasn't quick enough on that one. Everything else I've seen has either been not to my preference, modified, overpriced, or a combination thereof.
 
I saw 2 Glock 20's this morning for 600 bucks apiece. And they're still there now. Only Trudeau and my wife kept me from buying one of them.
 
Anything not needing registration is the flavour of 2021 until we cant buy without registration. JP.
 
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