Originally Posted By: KY Jon
Well it is real simple. People who have money are not spending it, people who want to spend it do not have any, no one is willing to lend money to those who want it and should be able to borrow money and the experts can write papers or expound about how the economy is in recovery all the want. We are in a very flat period of economic growth. So discretionary goods, which double guns clearly are, are in very poor demand. On top of that I suspect the market is flooded with slow moving guns right now. Doubles are an old mans game and we are loosing more old men all the time.


Please let me respectfully disagree with this commentary. Luxury goods are selling very briskly indeed. Tiffany stock has gone up; they had one of their best quarters; Louis Vuitton stuff is selling; high-end shops is NY, London and other cities are jammed. Yacht builders are booked up years in advance.

Oddly enough, whenever I visit the London gunmakers they have young men looking over (and buying) their doubles.