the bottom has totally fallen out of the AR market

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ByrdC130

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I certainly concur that the majority of folks/dealers selling are doing so at fire sale prices. I've seen the crazy high prices on armslist and facebook. The price is usually accompanied by a photo of the gun laying on carpet and toes protruding from the bottom of the photo. I'm guessing these are folks that got taken during the panic and are now trying to unload the gun they thought was going to be banned by now (and worth a lot of money).

Please, oh please, someone make a picture of a gun add where you can just barely see the lower 1/3 of the gun and the rest of the pic is black socks and sandal toes. I'd do it, but I don't own black socks....or any guns...boat accident....
 

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Did some sourcing. Can build a complete AR(PSA upper and LPK) with an Anderson lower for under 425 with shipping right now.

It makes me happy. You can build it even cheaper with patience to wait for deals, good trades, and so on. I think this is what I have in my 300 Blackout:

CMMG lower, bought new in the box from a guy on here with a little busted tab: $35
Upper, less BCG: Traded a FAL pile of parts/torch cut kit gun that I got from a buddy when I bought his last AK torch cut kit gun: FREE
LPK, traded 300 M60 links and 300 Lake City 7.62 brass: FREE
Better, S&W trigger group, used take off: $20
Receiver extension: $20
A1 stock w/shipping: $30
A1 grip: $15 (if I remember right)
Buffer & Spring: $20
BCG, bought new: $100

Wow, $225. I coulda sworn it was $350. Maybe I forgot something. If it makes you feel any better, you could say I payed $150 for the FAL kit and got a free AK kit, making it $375. Mind you, it took a good long while for all this to happen.

Good luck to the guys with the $2000 ordinary AR15s. My old boss used to say there was an ass for every seat.
 

MisterGrubbs

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Source it out while you can fellas, I'm sure in the next 5 years some stupid crap will happen and we will all make some money!

Or, just build one hell of an arsenal while we can *kind of* afford it haha
 

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I wish I had extra money right now because of how good the market is. Hopefully it will stay this way for a long while. I did however see one of our pawn shops here had a used dpms for $895!!! I laughed myself out the store. Who in there right mind would pay that price for that? And it wasn't in the best shape either. But there are suckers out there that will buy it. Glad I ain't one of them.
 

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