Defaulting banks - where will it stop?

[Jan Klimkowski]

Allegedly the biggest queues in the US of A are currently for guns. Here's some anecdotal stuff from Ticker Forum - purely anecdotal, ya understand:

1) Got my concealed weapons permit renewed yesterday. There was a 4+ hour wait to get fingerprinted. The two women at the Probate Court said they went from doing 20 a month to over 1000 a month (Fulton County) in the past year.

2) My mom wanted to buy a small revolver this weekend. We couldn't find one even close to what she wanted (steel frame snubnose). We decided she would buy me a gun of equal value and she could take my 7-shot .357 snubnose and my whole stash of ammo and speedloaders.

3) The range is always packed. Average wait on the weekend for a lane is 1-2 hours. Most ranges are booked up as soon as they open since people are waiting at the door. My local range went from doing less than $700 in receipts some weeknights (including all sales and range fees) to averaging about ten times that on weeknights, and doing north of $25k each weekend. They've got 6-7 people working a store the size of my apartment and they are all busy, busy, busy.

4) Can't find ammo. Last year it was expensive to replace. In some calibers and loadings you can't replace it at any price.

5) The biggest online distributors of guns are sold out of nearly every model. The only models in stock are hunting weapons or target weapons. Most guns that can be concealed and formerly abundant pump-action shotguns and semi-automatic rifles are missing from the supply chain. You can find a few in stores but at insane prices . . . but I guess those are the prices now.

No wonder California wants to legalize pot and get everyone chilled...