I bought a new firearm today, as you suggested ... MY WIFE MADE ME DO IT!
Do your patriotic duty, buy a firearm!
I did - TODAY! I dragged my wife of almost 39 years screaming and kicking (not really) to my favorite Dallas area police supply store, as we were driving right by it anyway ...
I had to stop in, as it pulls me in like a fly to light!
I was not really looking for anything special (yeah, right), and moseyed over to the new and used firearms department. They had dozens of police trade in Glocks at decent prices, and a few used SIG's that were very interesting and priced very reasonably. In the back of my mind was that if they had another Ruger SR1911, it would be nice to keep my other 1911's company (Ruger SR1911, Taurus PT1911, and a variety of Colt and GI Remington Rand models in the gun safe). I looked at the long guns on the wall, the used police rifles and used Remington 870's on the floor racks, but I kept drifting back to the new handgun showcases. As far as the Taurus models on display, PT740, PT709, and PT1911 autos, plus a variety of revolvers including Judges, I kept drifting back to a Ruger KSR40C in Stainless that I had almost purchased during previous visits. I noticed that most of the Ruger slots were empty, and the salesman said that Ruger's had become scarce as the demand for them has soared. No SR1911's in stock (they all sold out the day they came in), no LC9's (I was wearing an LC9 in my Desantis Super Tuck II, with my PT740 in a Remora locked in the car gun safe), and only a few LCP's, an SR9, and the lonely KSR40C. The salesman took the KSR40C out of the case, checked it, locked back the slide, and handed it to me.
My wife said those golden words, "You have a birthday coming up - would you like that for your birthday present?" Sheepishly, I said OK, and the rep went to the back to get one in the box, but alas, there were none except the display model, but they did have the box and all of the contents. I gave him my driver's licence, my and police ID, did the online digital 4473 and instant background check, and he rang it up at the Ruger LE price (about 1/3 off retail). If my wife had not pressured me into buying it with her birthday ploy, I might have left empty handed!
Just as she has to buy matching shoes when she buys a new purse, I had to wander over to the ammo shelves to purchase some matching .40 cal (and a few .45 to boot). I already have an adequate supply of .40 that I have used exclusively for my PT640 and PT740 pistols, but a few new boxes wouldn't hurt. Sadly, I have never seen the ammo shelves in that store as bare as they were today! My favorite Federal HST loads were unavailable in 9, .40, and .45 so I had to buy the older hydroshocks instead (the +P in .45). Most of the shelves were empty of pistol ammo; I asked my sales rep if he had any Federal HST, Hornady TAP-CQ Short Barrel, or Speer Short Barrel loads (for the PT709 and PT740) in the back, and he said that everything he had was on the shelves, as the supply of ammo had dramatically tightened over the past few weeks, and several of their regular orders were now on backorder, or cancelled by the manufacturers! The
only ammo that was in abundance, in cases of 500 and in sealed ammo cans was 5.56, in a variety of loads. They had a pallet load of sealed ammo cans of the Federal 5.56 in stripper clips for the best price that I have seen recently, as well as a 1/2 pallet of the green-tip 5.56 in cases of 500. He said that since the military slow down in the mideast, the 5.56 makers are dumping their now excess inventory. I was tempted to pick up an ammo can of the Federal 5.56 in stripper clips, but I noticed in my wife's non-verbal communications that her benevolence was being stretched.
Maybe those 5.56 ammo cans will still be there the next time that I wander by ... without my wife! (Please do NOT tell her).
UPDATE; The new Ruger KSR40C fits the same Remora and DeSantis Tuck This II holsters as my PT640 Pro and PT145 MilPro, so I won't have to burden my wife's sensibilities with a bevy of new holsters!
and just last month I bought my first M4gery, mostly because I didn't have one and I felt it was about time I owned a Modern Sporting Rifle. 
