no more brick and mortar stores left, now is the time to kill all internet sales of ammo.

it's coming.

That's only because they know your guys won't have internet for another 10 yrs.

Any time there is competition for purchasers, the consumers win.  Whether it is internet sales, or local sales competing for our gun dollars, that competition helps keep prices down.  Many gun shops get plenty of business from people who either don't want to shop on line, Don't know how to shop on line, don't care about how much a product costs, want to see the product first, or simply don't cost compare.

Just as smugglers kept illegal liquor sales going after prohibition, and illegal drug users keep drug smugglers in business, wherever there is a market to sell/buy, someone somewhere, somehow will figure out how to deliver product for sale to those with the money to buy.

If one business (brick and mortar gun stores) dies, another type will take it's place as long as there are buyers out there.  It has always been that way.

I get what your saying OP. We say millennials, but that's too broad of a category.

It's those little 14,15,16 year old bastards that will really put a hurting to brick and mortar / old ways.  The ones who never stop posting selfies and do everything on their phones.

Whatever we can embrace it if we want. I choose not to and i'm only 29. Hell the other day i went to the small tool rental hardware store just outside of town and hung out for about an hour shooting the breeze. They're a tad more expensive than the big box store but the owner has become a personal friend who takes care of me/my business's needs.

Give it 10 more years and then come back to this thread

That’s exactly how it ends!

they wont die completely.

i own a brick and mortar store.  business is booming.

places who sell anything that can be shipped cheap, will fall.

Wait till soldiers on the front line figure out how to call in this special "air support".  

Beer, Guns, Car meets etc.

I certainly don't go to the store for anything even remotely social lol.

I want in and out with little to no interaction unless I require assistance lol.

I rarely shop brick and mortar anymore - around here most the shopping areas are subsidized by "special taxing districts" and "Tx incremtnal funding (TIF)" funds which are essentially corporate welfare... screw paying 10%+ tax on something locally when I can have it dropped at my door in a couple days and not pay pumped up taxes to support the Lowes/Target/Bestbuy stip-mall that's on every corner

Yes & yes...

Like it says in the bible...

“kill em’ all let God sort it out"

Millenials aren't going to those places because they're fucking expensive.   I can't leave a movie theater for less than $80-100 for two, considering tickets are cresting $25/ea, then concessions (if so desired).  Restaurants, same way.  I tried to get into golfing but at nearly $100 a game to get onto the green with cart rental, that was too expensive too. Hunting? Very difficult barrier to entry unless you have family that actively does it, and you have your gear, which is surprise -- super fucking expensive.   Fishing is pretty popular among my counterparts, but that's still gear, time, and travel.

Bowling is still a pretty good time though

People are shitposting online because a month of Internet and Netflix is literally 10x cheaper than a couple of social outings.

This is purely a economical problem, and we have the Internet available as the only cheap source of entertainment.

Where in the world do you live that cinema tickets are $25? The most expensive I've bought lately was opening night for Star Wars in 3D with assigned seating, and with tax and the "convenience charge" it was barely over $16

Walmart ain't going anywhere. You can hangout and bullshit with people there.

VR / AR will let us interact socially in rich and robust ways with ANYONE IN THE WORLD.

I go to brick and mortar stores for stuff.

The future is now, old man.

thanks for reminding me got a Jet order coming in today

I do my range-time online, bro.

I get all the training I need from watching the pros do it.  Like, um, what's-his-name?  Cory ... can't remember his last name, but he has a girlfriend names Erika I think.  Or maybe it was this guy with really long videos who does reviews and gear checks?

Stuff circles back around.
Although the local malls are dying here, retail stores still exist. Here, there are a number of retail stores, that would usually be in a mall, are in a strip mall and are doing pretty well.
Old strip malls are getting razed and news ones are being put up but in a different part of town. Location is everything.

ITT, old people reminisce about having to waste their afternoon wandering from one drug store to another to find the right batteries for their hearing aid.

My dad came down to visit me last week, and insisted on doing everything this way.  I refused doing anything that way.

I told him - look, Dad, you're sitting in the passenger seat while I'm driving; you have an iphone 6 ... just call the places you want to waste the time of (and our time getting to and at), and ask them what you want to ask them.  He had NO plans on renting any property right now, and no OK from his wife on placing a deposit to hold a place for next year, so visiting each and every real estate agent until he found one that both had/did month-long rentals, AND had the time to waste on a guy not buying, was going to take a good while.

This went on for nearly everything.

Its funny because you posted the names of giant chain retail stores that put all the local places out of business.

lies
as a younger millennial, let me say that most people I know do all or some of these, except for golfing, because that's for old people

ETA not nice restaurants, that's a waste of money

I'm a millennial and did all the things posted in the OP as a kid. My parents and grandparents were never into hunting and fishing, but I want that to be something I do with my boys so I took the hunter safety course last weekend. Both boys have lifetime hunting and fishing licenses. They are ages 2 and 1; that's why I don't ever go out right now. Not because I don't want to, they're just too young to take to the movies, restaurants, etc.

As a millennial I too mourn the lost social aspects of my childhood and I'm truly concerned for my children.

I get booted from bowling alleys...

I break stuff.

I once had a 12lb ball go too late (thumb hole was too tight) and veered hard left bounced 2 lanes over and got a strike right after that lane had its pins dropped

Another time I thought perhaps a few beers will make me better. Like beer pong... yeah... no... retard beer muscles came out and I was pitching down the lane and broke something in the back that caused the point dexter looking guy to come out all pissed.

Bowling is a nope.

Golfing? That's a nope. Shooting range-yes. Driving range 9 or 18 hole? Nope.

Used to find me every Friday and Saturday night at a dirt oval track racing stock cars and in the garage until 2 or 3 in the morning monday-Thursday building rebuilding or fixing what got destroyed the week before.

Fishing. Hunting. Fuck yeah. Not into the whole deep sea stuff that Florida bros are into. I like being relatively close to land if the boat shits the bed. And no risk of sharks or sting rays.
I had to swim from halfway across the Hudson River once in between Catskill and Poughkeepsie.
Line snapped while wake boarding
Pricks kept going and I saw a big ol barge coming. Fuck that I'm not getting eaten by a prop.

I wouldn't be able to do that 5-10 miles+ out. No way.

Not with jaws and Steve Irwin killers out lurking.

Bad enough I glow in the dark from murky Hudson River PCBs... get me out there with sharks sting rays barracuda man o wars jelly fish. That's a big fucking nope.

But I'll shoot the shit out of deer hogs turkey and take my chances with buzz worms and winged death. And zika skeeters.

Can't forget the zika skeeters.

We can fix this!

No cell phones until 18! Or work your balls off and pay for it yourself!

Give them bikes not game consoles.
Give them Tonka trucks. Legit Tonka trucks! I fucked the streets bully up trying to steal my Tonka dump truck. Hooked that fat fuck in the side of his face. Cab corner on the dump truck damn near ripped his left eye out.
I showed him. never tried to steal my shit ever again.

Let them climb trees and build forts. Do cool shit.

Give them BB guns and eye protection. Go upside their head when they shoot the neighbors cat or dog or shoot a window out.

Give them bows and arrows and a few bails of hay.

Give them quads and dirtbikes and snomobiles.

Christ does everyone these days dope their kid up with Ritalin and Adderall because of Muh ADD/ADHD and shove a video game and cell phone in their hand?

I wont.

I'm on the edge of being a millennial (depending on which definition you use) and I do all of that.

Lots of youth today don't even know how to react with an incoming phone call. That's why they never answer and let the voicemail to to full (some fill it up themselves).  Then promptly return your call with a text.  WTF.

Maybe nobody like me  

Landlords will go bankrupt lose their buildings, then the city and state will go bankrupt from no one paying the insane property taxes. *Then someone will have the brilliant idea to lower property taxes, which will attract landlords who want to charge sane rates for retail space, which will attract businesses who can afford to compete with e-tailers and the brick and mortar store will return.

* The theory becomes unlikely starting here because it requires not-idiots in government.