People refuse to pay the high prices being asked, and are waiting until others get hard up enough to sell low. Ammo deal has hurt the AR too, just as other weapons. Now we will see ammo on shelves, and people will once again flock to the AR.
Ammo is being found again. I ordered the Centurion 223 from Aim for $329/1000...
Went out and found them to be accurate at 100 yrds. It has been a little weird to walk into stores and see Ammo on the shelf. I have to remind myself that I have plenty and I need not take away from others...
Happy to see everything leveling out!
Went out and found them to be accurate at 100 yrds. It has been a little weird to walk into stores and see Ammo on the shelf. I have to remind myself that I have plenty and I need not take away from others...
Happy to see everything leveling out!
Or how about this, what if people bought the first one they could find, and then they loved it so much and are now hooked they want to sell them for the most people will give in order to upgrade to high end AR. Just thought i would throw some positive out there.
I think its about people wanting to get into something different after owning them 5-6 months they had their guns and kinda bored of them..I see alot of Ak's for sale also..Just the evoltuion of gun ownership..Many first time buyer of Semi auto rifles guns bought AR's..
It's the same with AK's they want $400+ for a kit $100 for the rec. then you still have to buy the compliance parts
Now I'm seeing new AK's for about $500
People will be dumping their crappy put togethers soon.
So watch out what you buy in a Ak
When that new Ruger 556 gets on the shelves people will go crazy for it and really start dumping the ARs.
Now I'm seeing new AK's for about $500
People will be dumping their crappy put togethers soon.
So watch out what you buy in a Ak
When that new Ruger 556 gets on the shelves people will go crazy for it and really start dumping the ARs.
Just the ebb and flow of the market, as everyone has said.
I'm sure noticing that bubbles form and burst really really quickly in this game.
I'm sure noticing that bubbles form and burst really really quickly in this game.
+1. Mark has always had good prices.
Because ARs always cost a certain amount of money per brand/build and that was that.
Then came the 94 AWB and that screwed prices up and eventually sunset, but prices were still a little inflated over what they were prior to the Clinton ban.
Then comes modern times and more and more manufacturers are getting into the AR market. This all drives the price down.
Then comes the fear of Obama or Hillary (along with a ton of ignorance being spewed on the radio, etc... by places like Dong's purely for their own profit) and panic sets in because of the knowledge of the 94 AWB. This drives prices up a little more but this is an artificial inflation of the market.
Then comes Nov 4th and overnight several gun-shops hiked prices by as much as $100 each on guns (including some of our sponsors that are now on my ban list) and more panic. This wasn't done out of fear for the most part, but purely for profit off of a public scare of a Clinton-like candidate in office. Still more artificial inflation.
Then because of the panic, more and more new gun folks are getting in to the market and buying "Assault weapons" because they are afraid of not being able to get one later. This creates a HUGE consumer base for the newly inflated market.
Then low and behold, we have a ton of new douche-bag sellers who are buying up everything they can and hiking prices on it to make money off of fellow-gun people. This drives even more artificial inflation (and as a side note, causes as much damage to the gun community as any anti-gun liberal ever has in my opinion).
Now with all the new-guys to guns and the flood of douche-bags selling, you have people desperate to get an AR (for quite honestly irrational reasons and buying into the media hype) and these folks are now paying super-inflated prices for crappier weapons like Double-Star ARs, etc... (I've seen them as high as $1300 at a gun show).
Now comes the ammo shortage and that makes the AR scare last even longer than it should have because by this point, a noticeable percentage of the population (mostly voters), have bought guns (based just on NICS check reports) and have scared anti-gun politicians who are now noticing that these gun-buyers are voters and probably don't dig all the anti-gun legislation - and wait a minute, several of these anti-gun folks are coming up for re-election soon.
Finally - these new-to-gun folks are getting educated as to the prison-raping they just took on their new rifle and several of the douche-bag gougers are realizing that they may have gotten into the market too late as they actually paid slightly inflated prices and are trying to make a profit - but there are no more gullible new-to-gun folks out there and the old gun-guys are now pissed off at the gougers for turning on the gun community like they did.
Guns sit on shelves and don't sell - prices fall. Good - I hope some of these gougers get their houses/cars repo'd.
Meanwhile - a lot of the individuals who bought ARs either to get one before a second AWB, or to make money off of did so with credit cards and are now feeling the pain of that payment and have decided that maybe that purchase wasn't the best-timed purchase after all.
Just you wait - prices will be well below retail soon enough.
Then came the 94 AWB and that screwed prices up and eventually sunset, but prices were still a little inflated over what they were prior to the Clinton ban.
Then comes modern times and more and more manufacturers are getting into the AR market. This all drives the price down.
Then comes the fear of Obama or Hillary (along with a ton of ignorance being spewed on the radio, etc... by places like Dong's purely for their own profit) and panic sets in because of the knowledge of the 94 AWB. This drives prices up a little more but this is an artificial inflation of the market.
Then comes Nov 4th and overnight several gun-shops hiked prices by as much as $100 each on guns (including some of our sponsors that are now on my ban list) and more panic. This wasn't done out of fear for the most part, but purely for profit off of a public scare of a Clinton-like candidate in office. Still more artificial inflation.
Then because of the panic, more and more new gun folks are getting in to the market and buying "Assault weapons" because they are afraid of not being able to get one later. This creates a HUGE consumer base for the newly inflated market.
Then low and behold, we have a ton of new douche-bag sellers who are buying up everything they can and hiking prices on it to make money off of fellow-gun people. This drives even more artificial inflation (and as a side note, causes as much damage to the gun community as any anti-gun liberal ever has in my opinion).
Now with all the new-guys to guns and the flood of douche-bags selling, you have people desperate to get an AR (for quite honestly irrational reasons and buying into the media hype) and these folks are now paying super-inflated prices for crappier weapons like Double-Star ARs, etc... (I've seen them as high as $1300 at a gun show).
Now comes the ammo shortage and that makes the AR scare last even longer than it should have because by this point, a noticeable percentage of the population (mostly voters), have bought guns (based just on NICS check reports) and have scared anti-gun politicians who are now noticing that these gun-buyers are voters and probably don't dig all the anti-gun legislation - and wait a minute, several of these anti-gun folks are coming up for re-election soon.
Finally - these new-to-gun folks are getting educated as to the prison-raping they just took on their new rifle and several of the douche-bag gougers are realizing that they may have gotten into the market too late as they actually paid slightly inflated prices and are trying to make a profit - but there are no more gullible new-to-gun folks out there and the old gun-guys are now pissed off at the gougers for turning on the gun community like they did.
Guns sit on shelves and don't sell - prices fall. Good - I hope some of these gougers get their houses/cars repo'd.
Meanwhile - a lot of the individuals who bought ARs either to get one before a second AWB, or to make money off of did so with credit cards and are now feeling the pain of that payment and have decided that maybe that purchase wasn't the best-timed purchase after all.
Just you wait - prices will be well below retail soon enough.
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