Something about gun sales I noticed this morning

[ThomWV]

I'm one of those gun lovin' Democrats, but this post is not about them being good, bad, or indifferent, its not about a right to have them or a communities right to be protected from them. Its just an observation about market conditions that seems contradictory to news reports. OK?

About three years ago I bought two pistols. No local shops had the ones I wanted but that wasn't a problem. You may not know this but not only can you buy guns out of catalogs and weekly advertising papers but you can also buy them on line from auction operations that are near identical to E-Bay. The one stipulation is that these guns are being sold by licensed dealers and they must be shipped by specific means and only to another holder of the appropriate license. Just about all licensed dealers will receive a gun for you and process the paperwork for a small fee.

So I went searching the internet for a good deal on two pistols. I knew exactly what I wanted and so I was just shopping for price. There were thousands of the make and model I was looking, one popular auction sales site typically had 250 or so per day for me to browse through. Today I did the same search again and found only 2. I tried several other sites, same thing. Very few pistols, new or used, were up for sale and the prices on those were quite low. These are quality firearms from a major international manufacturer (Beretta, the oldest corporation in the world) and the models and calibers are common.

So what's going on here? I see on CNN's website that gun sales are going through the roof, posting after posting here warns us of rednecks arming themselves to the teeth. How come the E-Bay for guns has so few guns for sale and why are the ones that are there so cheap? I dunno? You got any ideas?