Guns ain’t cheap, especially in today’s environment.
One of my local shops who would never before have considered carrying cheap Turkish knock-off shotguns or Heritage .22 six-shooters is blowing through them like crazy. Partly because they're available, but mostly because they're cheap and a lot of noobs just want something that goes bang. It's not the demographic here, who own lots of quality guns, that are slurping up all of that entry-level inventory.