AR prices

[winters]

Is their some over supply in the market? I was at a large gun store in houston known for high prices and i have never seen them put guns on sale. But they had 20% all of their AR's. When I went to the gunshow saturday I noticed a lot of vendors had signs indicating markdowns on theirs too. Though they seem to be offering a decent discount but marked above msrp which I find to be funny.

[Eric Lamberson]

I suspect there is an oversupply right now. A friend who specializes in selling AR uppers told me the supply of uppers when from almost none available to plentiful.

The AR supply/demand equilibrium has seen some unusual fluctuations over the last 6+ years. Presidential elections, notorious shooting incidents, knee-jerk gun legislation have all caused AR demand to unexpectedly spike.

Imagine the poor AR barrel manufacturers trying to decide how much steel to buy. Just as soon as they get the machinery cranked up demand tapers off. The retailer that has no rifles to sell and orders inventory to meet current demand suddenly has too many and cannot sell them. Hence the price drop.

[mrvmax]

Yep, too much supply and not enough people buying.

[winters]

Whats funny is everytime I saw someone selling them with markdowns they marked them down from an already very high price. You sell an AR for 1500 with 20% off and the msrp is more like 1100. I guess they are hoping someone sees "sale" and thinks they are getting a good deal.

I bought my AR's about 9 month after that whole thing with Obama saying he wanted to ban then. Prices went sky high and then crashed down and I bought mine below msrp. Those people who payed 2 or 3 times the normal price well. To each his own.

[PBR]

thats it the market got flooded and now most everyone has one or more than one and doesnt need another

[LSUTiger]

Get them cheap while you can. It never hurts to have extras.

I've been encouraging others, especially newbies to get into the AR game while the getting is good and trying to help educate those new or lesser experienced gun owners out with the AR platform. There are a lot of misinformed people who have bought into the anti gun propaganda and a lot of misinformed buying public. Even among gun owner's , Fudd's, who think Daddy's bolt action hunting rifle or Uncle J.B.'s pump action shot gun is all you need.

More often than not I'm preaching to the choir but sometime the choir needs a little bit of encouragement and solidarity. Help where you can!

[winters]

I would be more interested in building one custom myself at this point. The only caliber that I might have interest is 300 blackout. I have 5.56 and 308 AR's already.

[Eric Lamberson]

How about an 300 AAC Blackout AR pistol? Short, handy, and sweet to shoot. No SBR tax stamp required.

[RogueUSMC]

If I were to build an SBR, it would be blackout...