The problem I have with that argument is that it is being used as a business strategy on one hand (which is fine on its own) while on the other you have this mantra of how the firearms community needs to be united against the Liberal agenda.
Initially there was the idea that dealers don’t want to get stuck with inventory they cannot sell so the distributors were hesitant to import. So as a dealer if your concern is that you might get stuck with inventory it doesn’t make sense to inflate your prices. I suspect that since there is no mentioned restrictions on exporting that would be a distributor’s solution to the predicament they are in. From what I can tell importing of inventory will continue until September.
At the end businesses will decide how they will conduct themselves & consumers will decide where to conduct their business. Now & in the future. With the blindsided handgun freeze people’s initial reaction was to protect their hobby, to buy those handguns that were on their wishlist for some time. I imagine there is quite a few of us that overspent. So I wonder in the next few months when this has all settled what the relationship will be like between consumers and dealers because I know for myself and a few friends we had talked about with whom we will continue our dealings.