JabaliHunter,

You're dead on here. The demand is definitely there and speculators have been buying up and dusting off a lot of old names and putting more guns into production to complement the production from the big four. If this were not the case, Greener would not have been revived and neither would have Thomas Bland who recently announced their own double rifles. Watson Brothers have been in business for some years now and a Scottish firm has bought up all the major Scottish names including Dickson, MacNaughton, Mortimer, Alexander Henry and Fraser. I have also heard about some commissions by Middle Eastern clients that have been well over a million dollars worth in the UK and on the Continent, and, the Russians have recently begun to enter the market. And at least one big British name is offering to hold guns for some wealthy Indian clients who cannot take their guns back to India becaue of Indian gun import restrictions.

I doubt the subprime mess is going to affect the bulk of these buyers.

On a very positive note, this might well herald a new golden age of gunmaking.

Good hunting, everyone!