A letter from Mega Arms.

[twoguns?]

My concern is instead of an AWB, Theyre gonna find a way to tax the Crap (no cussing here) out of it.
That would make too much scence .....Nevermind

 

[Swapwap]

Count me as a future customer

 

[AKguy1985]

I was listening to joe pags interview congressman lamar smith(head of the House justice committee and he said that ANY AWB bill that comes out of the senat must go thru his committee and there is NWIH(think it out,because we are not supposed to cuss round here) it will ever get out of his committee.[/QUOTE]

Let's hope that happens, that it never makes it out of committee.

 

[Model 70]

Let's just hope that he does not shift his views on 2A as he has on other topics of interest. Look at the SOPA deal and the CISPA bill.

 

[ez bake]

Magpul released a similar message about reporting "authorized vendors" who gouge to them and they will no longer be authorized to receive Magpul products direct from Magpul or authorized distributors.

 

[Shootin 4 Fun]

I still want to know how inflated prices on non-essential items can be considered gouging. It seems to me that a lot of dealers are controlling the private profiteers through pricing and purchase quantity limits. If we wanted to make outrageous profits we could just market our products on gunbroker and let the fools gouge themselves.

 

[rlongnt]

Magpul released a similar message about reporting "authorized vendors" who gouge to them and they will no longer be authorized to receive Magpul products direct from Magpul or authorized distributors.

Better add Dongs to that list then! $60 with no window

 

[ez bake]

I still want to know how inflated prices on non-essential items can be considered gouging. It seems to me that a lot of dealers are controlling the private profiteers through pricing and purchase quantity limits. If we wanted to make outrageous profits we could just market our products on gunbroker and let the fools gouge themselves.

Where are you finding that gouging only applies to essential items? Just curious as to where you're getting your definition from. A quick google does not yield any results stating that price-gouging only applies to essential items (I'm clearly no financial guru though so I am curious as to what the actual definition is).

Gouging is just what it is - hiking prices unreasonably or irrationally due to demand. It's perfectly fine and nobody on this board is proposing legislation to stop the free-market process of charging what you want - but manufacturers have a right to sell to whom they want as well - and they're exercising their right to not sell to those who price-gouge.

Also, the free market has little to do with the fact that the government is proposing legislation that severely affects the gun-market as a whole (especially when that legislation says you cannot transfer, sell, buy, import, etc. after XYZ date) - that is by definition the opposite of free market capitalism.

I'll add that for price-gouging to affect this message board is a bit disheartening since so many people enjoy this place for more than just the classifieds and I know for a fact that more than a few folks are now to the point where they do a quick search to see if a member is price-gouging before they will dole out free advice to that same member.

Just seems like it's negatively affecting this message board and I hate to see that.

 

[Shootin 4 Fun]

Exactly! There is no gouging going on. Nobody is forced to buy anything for survival, there is no civil emergency. Obama never even pretended that he wasn't coming for our beloved evil black rifles and greater than 10 rd capacity magazines, hell, he even announced his intentions in one of the debates. Nobody should have been caught with their pants down this time. What we are witnessing here is a shift in pricing that we will have to deal with for much longer than we did in 2008.
Here's what is going to suck, manufacturers such as Mega will raise wholesale prices and a $200 lower receiver will be the norm.
I started buying lowers, mags and ammo in early 2012.

 

[ez bake]

Where are you finding that gouging only applies to essential items? Just curious as to where you're getting your definition from. A quick google does not yield any results stating that price-gouging only applies to essential items (I'm clearly no financial guru though so I am curious as to what the actual definition is).

Gouging is just what it is - hiking prices unreasonably or irrationally due to demand. It's perfectly fine and nobody on this board is proposing legislation to stop the free-market process of charging what you want - but manufacturers have a right to sell to whom they want as well - and they're exercising their right to not sell to those who price-gouge.

Exactly! There is no gouging going on. Nobody is forced to buy anything for survival, there is no civil emergency.

Huh?...