M855/ss109

[hurley842002]

Holy crap! Looking at the price of used guns (not just AR's) this week they must be banning everything?

Question is, are people buying said guns.

[ray1970]

The Fudd on the radio actually said that since all the ammo was going to be banned and nobody would buy AR's anymore as a result that the price of AR's would in fact increase.

Strong theory, huh? Hahahaha....

I heard that. I couldn't grasp how lower demand would make for higher prices. Of course I don't have a college education.

[VolksDragon]

This just reinforces the much-repeated "buy it cheap and stack it deep" that applies to pretty much everything on the firearms market. Buy what you want when the market is soft and supply curves are up so that you'll have what you NEED when demand goes nuts, surge pricing takes off and supply is zero.

These are all fairly simple economic trends, but they get super out of hand when groundswell panic and neckbeard logic starts fucking with the system. WE all KNOW it's just M855 on the chopping block, but the immense game of disinformation telephone that takes place convinces some that EVERYTHING is going to be banned. People remember what happened in '12, and instead of being caught without, they just start buying shit. Those of us with the time and the means tend to monitor the ammo market as a futures investment, and once the prices uptick, we buy a few thousand to hedge against MORE uptick, essentially contributing to the problem. Those of us with big stockpiles dump a bit of ammo on the open market, further influencing the surge / inflated value by pricing our existing commodities against a perceived supply cliff. It's a pretty ruthless cycle from both ends.

Whether it's mags, lowers, complete rifles, ammo, LPK's, etc, this kind of market variance is ALWAYS going to occur when you mix the current political climate with economic uncertainty and bandwagon activism. Whether it's the first Clinton ban, the sunset, the '08 panic, the '12 panic...the market will continue to rise and fall.

So...again...buy LOTS of it when it's cheap, so you won't HAVE to buy it when it's not.

[Irving]

I just entered into a 10 year, several million gallon contract with Conoco to ensure I can keep paying this price for gas for the next 10 years.

[VolksDragon]

I just entered into a 10 year, several million gallon contract with Conoco to ensure I can keep paying this price for gas for the next 10 years.

Not a bad wager if you can figure out how to store and preserve it.

[Mtn.man]

Just bid 27.50 on 2806lbs of 5.56 brass

[hollohas]

Just bid 27.50 on 2806lbs of 5.56 brass

Local?

[Gman]

Just bid 27.50 on 2806lbs of 5.56 brass

Let us know if you win the auction at that price.

[MBsnow]

So much mis-information.

[ruthabagah]

So much mis-information.

Yep, just had a former co worker asking me if I would buy back an AR I sold him 2 years ago (that he never shot), because "soon all AR ammo will be banned!" told him, yes, for 200$.... He is thinking about it.