doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Depressed prices?

This depressing topic of double shotguns losing value keeps coming up, but I still don't see everyone dumping their doubles and running for the exit. Frankly, I'm a lot more concerned that the value of the U.S. Dollar has fallen by 96% since the 1913 inception of the Federal Reserve System, and there is no real end in sight. Any of us who have dollar denominated savings or retirement accounts has lost over 20% of that value in the last 3 1/2 years due to Bidenomics and extreme deficit spending.

I may be fooling myself, but I still believe that if I liquidated all of my guns now, I could at very least recoup all of my money, or even make a profit. But that's because I learned that buying guns is no different than buying stocks. The key is to buy the bargains, and let someone else pay retail or more. I don't NEED any gun, and refuse to ever buy any gun out of desperation or emotion.

Of course, if I did sell and converted my hard asset of guns to cash, in all likelihood, that cash would continue to lose value because our politicians just continue to print money out of thin air. Nobody knows how this mess will end, but the chances of a soft landing look worse every day. Some economists say that the stock and real estate market is in a big bubble, the deficit is unsustainable, and the shit will hit the fan. So hard assets like guns might be far better than near worthless paper dollars. Some say that things like .22LR ammo, shotshells, .223 ammo, canned food, or bottles of whiskey could become worth more than gold in a real SHTF situation. Here's a recent example of hyperinflation:



Hyperinflation doesn't just happen in Third World countries. It devastated Germany in 1923, and Hungary in 1946. It is still happening today in Argentina and even in oil rich Venezuela. But even the level of inflation we have seen in the past few years makes it much more costly to buy any assets, food, or fuel. And here's a picture of the biggest threat we face right now to the value of the dollar, and all firearms, not just old doubles:



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