Southern Classic Gun and Knife Show at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds
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The Southern Classic Gun and Knife show wrapped up Sunday in Jacksonville and organizers say there was a big difference in the size of the crowd compared to the show at the beginning of the year.
Vendors say supply and demand are finally seeing eye to eye and they say it's because the rush to buy guns threatened to be taken off the market, has calmed.
The AR 15 is one of the popular guns vendors sold out of and had waiting lists for at the last Southern Classic Gun and Knife Show at the Jacksonville Fairgrounds. James Emanuel with Weapon Enhancement Solutions says earlier this year the gun was selling at over 2200 dollars, now the AR 15 was selling at 699 dollars at his booth.
"You had the scare with the political atmosphere which I think drove prices up and there was a lot more demand, people now are slowing down, they can find a better deal these days because the market has went down," said Emanuel. Emanuel says in the first few months of the year he was selling up to 200 AR 15s a month, and now he's averaging at ten a month.