Walmart Price Check. COLT LE 6920

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So I was down in Indiana this week. Of course I visited a couple of gun stores.... 8 I think :)

I thought I would check out Walmart to see what they have......

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There is NO Shortage of COLTS if Walmart stocks them.

Makes you wonder why they are $1850.............:rolleyes:

THey had DPMS .308's for $907! SIG M400 For $20 more than the Colt.

Every store I went too had P-mags out the bum...and Glock Mags. BGC's and LPKs were abundant.

Sooooo. If a store tells you it's hard to get.....most likely they say that to keep the price up.
 
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I was around Port Huron Mi. the last couple of days. Dozens of AR's and Pmags in stores. Pmags were $16-$19. .22 rimfire ammo was noticible by it's absence on the shelves.
 
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This was Gander Mountain.....

I missed a section of wall. There was everything including Black Rain Rifles for $2400 w/ Stainless Fluted Barrels. And some I never heard of.

They had 6lb boxes of Tannerite for $49. Kinda of like a multi-target pack.

The only thing is they Pay more for Ammo.....but there is lots of it. Gander mountain had piles of 7.62x39 - non corrosive .50 cents a round and .223 .60 cents+ a round


I went to a little mom and pop joint....just opened. P-mags everywhere. 42 round Pro-mags. LPKs ($66) from DPMS and CMMG (.308) BGC's at $119
Another store had complete billet uppers for $89

AIM Surplus is clearing out Troy Battle mags (pink followers) for $9............They were close by and do pick-ups


And. Yes, I did not want to have my bum searched so the wallet stayed closed. I can see why it is Soooo Tempting.
I bought a couple little plastic bits, spent $35.

Oh Well. It was fun to drool.
 
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JDForBrkFst said:
How'd their stocks of 223 and 9 look?
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.223 was stacked on the floor....50 cases maybe. 9mm looked fine, didn't cases. but the shelves were full. They had a sign to limit pistol ammo purchase to 5 boxes a day. So maybe pistol ammo is a little tighter.

All stores had .223. But it was stuff like 'Independence ammo' for $12 a box. $10 - $11 a box for .223
 
Here's mainly how most of the stuff works up in Canada a distributor gets the rights to sell a product in Canada, he pays whatever the manufacture wants, very small volume so not much leverage to drive prices. The distributor tacks on a nice profit then sells them to his dealers. The dealers then add their percentage of profit on top of it and sell it to you. So you have three people at least trying to make a profit off the article, how else do they stay in business. In the states most dealers buy direct from manufacture. Then there are items like Pmags that are required to be neutered prior to entering the country, someone has to open all those little bags put them in a jig drill it put in a pop rivet and put them back in the bag, kind of a pain in the bull labour intensive operation, thats not free.

Then there is the importation pain in the butt with the State Department and our own government, brokerage fees, shipping.

For the pain that it is I'm happy that there are people willing to go through the hassle to get us the stuff we want, i'm sure there are easier ways to make a buck.

Are there some people that gouge? sure there are just don't do business with them.

So if you can do a better job man up open your store and show us how you can sell us stuff for the same price they pay in the US.

Things might be better now but at the start of July I was in Michigan just outside Detroit went to half a dozen gun stores they had a few AR's, lots of pistol (stuff like Glock 19's and Sig P226's were in short supply), there was bugger all in ammo. I went to the Gander Mountain that I regularly go to that usually has tons of stuff, the only ammo they had was shotgun shells and obscure hunting rounds.

I've been to a few stores here an PMags are on the shelves prices range from $17.99 to $26.99 (one even was asking $29.99 for Gen 2's).
 
Hahaha

The old open your own store...and you do better statement. LOL HAHAHA

And the import fees/duties garbage. You show that you have very little knowledge of the process.
Keep believing a $700 mark up is fair. That is the scary part. People like you justfying the prices empowers them to charge prices like that.

Which dealer do you work at?

My post was more about everything back to normal.
And low prices...;)
 
Walmart is the single largest gunseller and ammo seller in the US, they get Colt before some wholesalers get Colts, and they sell them at the same price as some wholesalers pay. You have to love a store where you can get beer, Doritos, an AR and ammo in one place.
 
I too have been to plenty of gun stores in the states lately, mainly out of boredom as I was dragged there two weeks in a row for wedding crap and needed to kill some time. The only thing walking through those gun stores does is make me drool, make me annoyed at our nanny-state gun laws, and overall make me wish I lived in the States. I usually just buy cleaning stuff and clothes, but oh how I WISH I could buy gun parts/mags/guns!!

I think the end of the AR-15 buy up was inevitable. You had a ton of people who didn't own AR's making their first purchase, and even had some purchasing multiple AR's or stocking up on them, and you also had people who were already owners, buying more. Even with a major demand, the demand will settle down after a while. After all these things mainly cost over $1,000 generally. They aren't cheap. The run on ammo however, is obviously not done. Walk into a gun store and you'll realize that pretty quickly. It's not as bad as it was a few months back, but .22 is still pretty impossible to find. At least where I was. I think this will probably continue for some time. As the availability of ammunition slightly increases, people will be more likely to shoot what they have been sitting on, but will still want to re-stock to maintain the level they had stocked up.
 
rivetc78 said:
.223 was stacked on the floor....50 cases maybe. 9mm looked fine, didn't cases. but the shelves were full. They had a sign to limit pistol ammo purchase to 5 boxes a day. So maybe pistol ammo is a little tighter.

All stores had .223. But it was stuff like 'Independence ammo' for $12 a box. $10 - $11 a box for .223
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Hope they find there way north...
 
That is quite reassuring to see. The more arms in the hands of good decent citizens, the better. It's the only real inoculation against tyranny.
 
rivetc78 said:
Hahaha

The old open your own store...and you do better statement. LOL HAHAHA

And the import fees/duties garbage. You show that you have very little knowledge of the process.
Keep believing a $700 mark up is fair. That is the scary part. People like you justfying the prices empowers them to charge prices like that.

Which dealer do you work at?

My post was more about everything back to normal.
And low prices...;)
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I don't work for any dealer, and what if I did? As usual every time you open your pie hole you manage to piss people off.
 
rivetc78 said:
So I was down in Indiana this week. Of course I visited a couple of gun stores.... 8 I think :)

I thought I would check out Walmart to see what they have......



There is NO Shortage of COLTS if Walmart stocks them.

Makes you wonder why they are $1850.............:rolleyes:

THey had DPMS .308's for $907! SIG M400 For $20 more than the Colt.

Every store I went too had P-mags out the bum...and Glock Mags. BGC's and LPKs were abundant.

Sooooo. If a store tells you it's hard to get.....most likely they say that to keep the price up.
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That's because they ordered 60,000 6920 from Colt.
 
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