Click here to download the catalog as a PDF file. To view this site you need Adobe Flash Player and your browser must allow javaScripts. Go here to get the latest Flash Player. “We’re Buying Everything Offered To Us.” a run on full-cap magazines as experienced by others. “Most full-capacity handgun buyers are pleased to get two magazines. It’s ammunition they want and can’t get,” Barrett said. Barrett has seen significant change in buyers’ demands since the November elections. Fullcap pistols had been steady sellers, but now, smaller concealable revolvers, especially Smith & Wesson Models 442 and 642, plus small autos like Ruger LCPs and others, are generating almost as much demand as full caps. “We can’t even keep a Taurus Judge on display — and they’re hard to get, too,” Barrett said. “Basically, we’re buying everything offered to us.” Midsize and full-size Glocks like the Models 19 and 17 disappear quickly, Smith & Wesson M&P pistols in .40 S&W and 9mm are hot movers, and, Barrett With 17-plus-one capacity, Ruger’s SR9 is posting says, “Springfield’s 19-plus-one impressive sales. XDM 9mm is a huge favorite.” A t Greentop Sporting Goods in Glen Allen, Va., Travis Barrett also acknowledges a shortage of full-capacity handguns, but reported there has not been Barrett made the point that buyers show little hesitation to pay for relatively expensive handguns, but the rising cost of ammunition — as well as its unavailability — has created far greater interest in 9mm pistols. The firearms market is tumultuous right now, and whether or not a broad, farreaching “assault weapons ban” will come to pass is an unknown factor. As we go to press, full-capacity handguns exist as an odd combination of “legal, highly desired and almost impossible to get.” Regardless, some things are certain: When supplies are available, the retailers who get them will be the thoughtful, the strategic and the aggressive. That dealer can be you. 9 Future Success Handgun Sales See page 43 for a listing of handgun manufacturers. A well armed citizen, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear cool Arms should be indulged. Read SI Digital 42 MAY 2009 Read SI DIGITAL www.shootingindustry.com