Guns: A Great Investment
The guns vs. butter debate has long been a favorite of production possibility frontier chartists. This elderly economic theorem is said to not correlate well to free market economies...
Perhaps that is why I find it more and more relative to these modern day United States.
Why Guns are a BETTER Investment than Gold
With gold still a good ways away from early 1980's inflation adjusted highs, being a bull is not something I would look down upon. That having been said, what goes... must eventually come down.
On the other side of the pond, however, an interesting mini bubble seems to be puffing up. After all, when geriatric shotguns sell for the price of a new Aston Martin, the industrious investors should go and have a look.
Even though it is easy to make the argument that antiques always sell well. A steady 3-5% annual valuation increase is a pretty respectable number.
I think these numbers ring volumes at a time when the U.S. dollar is propped up by little less than the collective of American military arms pointed at the competing world.
Naturally, most of us do not have six-figures to drop on a sidearm of any functional quality. As far as I know, there's yet to be a pure gun ETF formed and you already know of my affections for the Vice Fund.
With more than a few bills circulating the underbelly of Washington attempting to choke down 2nd Amendment rights...the notion of investing in guns should not (and IMHO will not) be limited to rare collector's items.
We find ourselves living in an extremely strange time filled with vastly divergent views about how the world should proceed.
I am by no means trying to arouse panic. Just thoughtful discussion.
But being honest with you guys as I always try to be...
You should learn to shoot and you should invest in a firearm...or ten.
Who knows what the payout will be?






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Interesting thoughts Midas,
Interesting thoughts Midas, but if you are intent on firearms investing in NYC or Chicago, the local police department might not be very happy about that.
In any case, the second amendment is settled law. The real question is on assault rifles which did not exist at the time the second amendment was created.
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IlliniProgrammer
Interesting thoughts Midas, but if you are intent on firearms investing in NYC or Chicago, the local police department might not be very happy about that.
In any case, the second amendment is settled law. The real question is on assault rifles which did not exist at the time the second amendment was created.
I think we should have access to the average rifle accessible to the average infantryman. Just in case the King of England tries to get in our face again.
IlliniProgrammer
Interesting thoughts Midas, but if you are intent on firearms investing in NYC or Chicago, the local police department might not be very happy about that.
In any case, the second amendment is settled law. The real question is on assault rifles which did not exist at the time the second amendment was created.
The Chicago police department can use all the help they can get. Poor bastards have to drive around in their own vehicles for traffic duty...without mileage reimbursement.
Besides, a loaded pistol on Michigan Avenue is your only remaining hedge against local authorities pissing away billion dollars of revenue through parking meter privatization and passing the losses on to you.
Don't let me get started on NYC. Conceal and carry for crack dealers only. Remain calm citizen, all is well.
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Besides, a loaded pistol on Michigan Avenue is your only remaining hedge against local authorities pissing away billion dollars of revenue through parking meter privatization and passing the losses on to you.
Which is why, IMHO, the City of Chicago needs to impose rent control on city parking. Limit parking meters to $0.50/hour. Perfectly legal and constitutional.
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IlliniProgrammer
Besides, a loaded pistol on Michigan Avenue is your only remaining hedge against local authorities pissing away billion dollars of revenue through parking meter privatization and passing the losses on to you.
Which is why, IMHO, the City of Chicago needs to impose rent control on city parking. Limit parking meters to $0.50/hour. Perfectly legal and constitutional.
Didn't Chicago sell its parking meter income for the next 75 years to some Arab investment group? I think Chicago needs to compensate them for lost income from street closures now. Also, no more meter holidays on Xmas, etc.
Just wondering but what holds
Just wondering but what holds the gun's value so high? I mean, is it just a collectible/antique/whatever?
It's what you put into it
IlliniProgrammer
Besides, a loaded pistol on Michigan Avenue is your only remaining hedge against local authorities pissing away billion dollars of revenue through parking meter privatization and passing the losses on to you.
Which is why, IMHO, the City of Chicago needs to impose rent control on city parking. Limit parking meters to $0.50/hour. Perfectly legal and constitutional.
Lol. I don't think you'd ever get that passed without a large assortment of weaponry pointed at City Hall. I'm just curious how it works out for them to take credit card payments of $0.25?
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I could see that getting
I could see that getting passed because it would generate votes while screwing over the investors that bought the parking meters. As for the CC payments, they probably have some bulk arrangement with the CC companies based on a percentage of total revenue.
I'm already ahead of the
I'm already ahead of the curve, I own many guns. Even some of those evil assault rifles.
Guns are the ultimate
Guns are the ultimate investment. Once you have a gun, the amount of cash you can extract from the asset is really only limited by your human capital (how many holdups you can execute per accounting period) and externalities (police intervention/armed convenience store clerks).
There have been many great comebacks throughout history. Jesus was dead but then came back as an all-powerful God-Zombie.
Kenny_Powers_CFA wrote: Guns
Guns are the ultimate investment. Once you have a gun, the amount of cash you can extract from the asset is really only limited by your human capital (how many holdups you can execute per accounting period) and externalities (police intervention/armed convenience store clerks).
LOL
not to mention...stupidest
not to mention...stupidest amendment of the constitution.
coach.captain wrote: not to
not to mention...stupidest amendment of the constitution.
Wait, what's the stupidest amendment?
coach.captain wrote: not to
not to mention...stupidest amendment of the constitution.
Good use of your first post- a real gem.
Who needs those dumb freedoms anyways- let's just get rid of all of the amendments. Then we can go back to being rules AND be able to do nothing about it.
Nah not all of them, just the
Nah not all of them, just the second one.
Oops- duplicate post.
coach.captain wrote: Nah not
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coach.captain wrote: Nah not
Guys, there's something
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And I have the right to call
Haha, fair enough. :)
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LOL bunch of far right
coach.captain wrote: LOL
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Oooh, we've whipped out the
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IlliniProgrammer wrote: Oooh,
If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses - Henry Ford
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Wiggles? I don't want to
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IlliniProgrammer wrote: Oooh,
The Wiggles:
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Yeah, just stay away from the
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