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Setting Myself For A RGR Disappointment

Mentally, I must ready myself to see RGR miss on earnings and crater back towards $40. Statewide background checks are way down, save for the most liberal, anti-gun cities, where terrified freedom lovers accumulate weapons at an alarming rate.

Most of the energy to buy weapons was exhausted in the first three months of the year. You can only buy so many firearms.

However, I am not prepared to sell my position, exclusively because of the minute details of my personal trading and positioning.

I already made a boat load of money in RGR, first last November when I hit a rally then sold before December. Then, I repurchased around $40. And since then I’ve been buying and selling the ranges, always profitably. I’m currently sitting on just half the position size I started with (sold north of $50 I do believe), and at least a 20% unrealized profit baked into those shares…not counting all the realized gains and dividends.

So no, it doesn’t make sense for me to sell out.

RGR’s value depends a lot on where things go from here. At latest sales, RGR is cheap – but are they maintaining those levels with background checks slowing down? At 2012 levels, the stock is a little hot, but not too bad. And if sales settle somewhere in between, I’d say we’re just fine.

But if sales start going below 2012 levels, things get interesting. I’m counting on first time gun buyers getting the itch; you never stop at just one.

Still, I’m not going to be taking any form of wash on this; I’ve come way too far. I’ll sell if it gets to $44, lock in the last smattering of shares up +10%, and walk away up big on one of the most profitable 6 month runs in a single name I’ve had since APC.

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Hunkered Back Down

There wasn’t much need to, but I took profits in the RGR and BAS shares I most recently purchased on the last “selloff”. The RGR shares were bought on 4/4 for $48.03 and the BAS shares were bought on 4/26 for $13.03.

I unloaded them for $50.78 and $13.98, respectively.

I also added to my SCO hedge for $37.30.

Even if I wasn’t expecting the annual recession scare(s), energy demand is clearly falling, and since most of my book is in CCJ and BAS, that leaves me exposed. As I believe this is the start of the next washout, it just makes sense to bunker myself.

Net equivalent cash position now stands north of 50% again, counting on EUO and SCO hedging.

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BOOOYAAAHHH RGR

When I’m willing to quote Jim Cramer in my title, the news I’m carrying can only be of such a variety, of such a lofty level, of such unrivaled immaculateness…

RGR just announced $1.20 earnings per share, when analyst estimates were at $1.01. The $1.01 number was already, what? 30% above the December original estimates. We’re now sitting 50% above the earnings trend that was already justifying $55-60 pricing before Newtown.

I know, you paid “professional” analysts are busy frenziedly scribbling your next hate piece on the firearms industry – I mean, Michael Bloomberg hates guns. Michael Bloomberg…

Do you want to see why you’re wrong? Fine, I’ll show you.

Firearm sales are not going to collapse, but rather gradually return to pre-Newtown levels (elevated even as they are) because these are the guys who actually buy guns:

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Does that look like a source of rational, informed consumerism? All of your logic…roll it into a ball and choke on it. I told you, mere moments after Dianne Feinstein was finished speaking in the wake of the Newtown tragedy, that the cat had been let out of the bag.

Watch the FBI background checks. While the gun debate remains in the forefront of the public sphere (Washington DC or in any of the States), the panic buying continues. And the gun debate can’t get out of the public sphere, because Barack Obama pulled a classic Obama move and opened his mouth when he should have kept it shut. Now, he can’t not push gun control, because a loss this public this early in his presidency would shatter any second term agenda narrative, rendering him a lame duck. It may even now be too late.

Maybe just delete that “gun stocks are overpriced” piece you’re working on. Do yourself a favor and quit while you’re ahead.

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Gun Drama Is A Distraction From Making Money

RGR prices spiked this morning back above $50, and I have to say my buy from $48 is looking good. I have made big money on every single dip, purchase, accumulation, or wild guess I have made so far in this stock, starting in December.

Then just before noon, the Senate announced cloture of the background check deal and around that time RGR began to settle back down again.

Look, I’m going to be very straight with you. This measure means nothing. N-O-T-H-I-N-G.

Look where we’re at; this whole debate began with Dianne Feinstein so coked up on how many different makes and models of weapons she’d have free reign to ban, there was almost too many to decide. There was no limit to the damage to be done to gun manufacturers. Private gun ownership was in check.

Where are we now? Record sales and surging background checks later, and they’re trying to decide if they even have the ability to mandate closing loopholes that largely don’t exist on the State level; it remains to be seen whether that’s on every purchase (a measure as damn near a plurality of this country has ever supported), or just a tiny fraction of all gun sales – you know, weapons you buy between 3-6am while standing on your left foot in a gymnasium…or something

This is over. The likes of Piers Morgan are now scraping the bottom of the barrel, desperate not to look like total fools. Because they’re ultimately advocating authoritarian controls here. And the only thing worse than an authoritarian…is an ineffectual authoritarian.

I told you months ago that B. Obama would hang himself in his own eagerness. The man who began his first term parading historians in front of himself, pridefully seaking to cement his legacy for the ages, has now managed to choke off his second term before accomplishing anything. He made the cardinal error. Democrats have zero leeway to get dragged into the gun debate, because more than half the country doesn’t trust them with it.

Game. Match.

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Gun Frenzy Won’t Slow Down

The most popular (and esoteric) argument for gun stocks being overpriced seems based largely on a riddle that goes something like this:

“You tell me, what happens when gun legislation passes and the buyers realize everything will be okay?”

Which is lovely. I enjoy riddles. And word games. And the works of Nabokov. But this isn’t about playful respite; this is about making money and being right. It becomes my duty, therefore, to thrash you.

I now present three illuminating bullets (I just proofread this and realized I made a pun):

* Stocks like RGR are only trading where they were before sales went crazy
* This legislation will not be hindering gun makers – background checks are perfectly doable because they will most likely have maximum waiting periods attached (1 month or less or else all clear); that’s a minimum to get the measure through the House (if anything even can)
* And, the big shebang…RGR hasn’t raised gun prices and I’m not sure the others have either

Yeah, see that’s the big open secret here. Guns are selling out of stock, but RGR’s CEO was adamant that his company would not be raising prices because, as he phrased it, “gun buyers as a group have long collective memories.” He doesn’t want to prey off his customer base, so RGR hasn’t raised weapons prices at all.

Ergo, once this bill passes and people go “oh, wait, that’s not so bad,” there will be no price incentive for them to cancel their order (“I could sit back and wait for prices to calm down…”). That, right there, isn’t happening. The guns that have been jumping in price are private sales. So, in RGR’s case (and I suspect the other manufacturers as well), there’s no clear financial edge to back out.

There is, however, still the looming possibility that Republicans could lose more seats (remind me, what is the popularity of the GOP at the moment?)…

(I told you I like riddles too)

And so, I am afraid (I’m not actually afraid) that this robust bounty of profitability RGR and the gun market at large are seeing is very much sustainable for a duration of at least a year (possibly two). While eventually and inevitably these orders will slow down, I really couldn’t care less. You see, the stocks are not pricing in this raw influx of cash, and one solid year of the orders they’re experiencing is the equivalent of several years worth of business, all front loaded and with minimum inventory risk attached.

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Unacceptable – RGR Is Down?

You’ve got to be kidding me!? RGR didn’t just demolish earnings estimates. They vaporized them. They crushed all the analysts so badly, I don’t think the analysts have managed to figure out by how much yet. Was it 50%, or a whopping 77%?

So the stock is down a percent??

Look, do not lull yourself into thinking the earnings game is over for RGR. I flip on my television and see a multi-million dollar marketing campaign equivalent for RGR on C-SPAN this morning, as Feinstein and a half dozen brain dead Senators let a man so inundated by grief he can hardly stand steer their response to weapons in the USA.

These gun control measures are dead on arrival. They will not impact RGR or SWHC in the slightest. They are, however, FREE ADVERTISEMENT and the single greatest argument for a gun purchase the gun manufacturers could ever hope to make.

“Wait, assault weapons will be banished, but if you have one already it doesn’t count? So buy one now.”

Why does RGR even have a marketing division? I’d zero budget them immediately, on the grounds that their job is being done for them, at no cost to the company – the US Senate is that kind

The market is resting from yesterdays’ mighty run. We are not reversing lower, as far as I can tell. EU yields with respect to the problem children continue to subside.

South American countries are feeling the heat this morning, as their debt gets the Argentina treatment. But their economies are too small to matter. And, really, that’s what you deserve for investing in South America.

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