I haven’t posted here in a while, but have been following the forums regularly. I’m not sure where this post should properly go, but I would very much like to have other members take on the astonishing number of top-end double rifles and shotguns for sale on Guns International by Galazan and Steve Barnett. These two dealers apparently have the mother lode of inventory, but have priced it out of the reach of only the wealthiest of buyers who probably have their fair share of this stuff already. One of the dealers has the Robert Petersen collection, left to the NRA at Mr. Petersen’s death. Very few, if any of these pieces have sold within the last couple of years. They keep coming up “New This Week” but they are not new; the listings ran out and they are just being relisted.
I’m no stranger to paying what I consider to be high, but fair, prices for a couple of my pieces. Still, these guns, predominately British, appear to be priced beyond any realistic expectation of sale, even if the economy is recovering, a doubtful proposition itself. I would not call this a shortage of fine guns by any means, just a shortage of buyers at those prices. What’s going on here?