AR15 market right now

[geoint]

Yep, as evidenced by the fact that while local stores have had low inventory, online availability has been plentiful and cheap.

During the '13 panic, you couldn't even find anything online. I remember paying almost $600 for a set of 3 no-name 80% lowers on GunBroker Some people were paying $2500+ for M&P15's

Ouch. Ya those were tough times. I made out like a bandit those days because I was into AKs which were still cheap then. It was after the market readjusted, post Sandy Hook that AK prices just got stupid high. Which was nice cuz I was just getting bored and ended up selling about a dozen of the AKs I had bought for pennies

[geoint]

lowers are typically from $50-150 ... an mp15 @ $500 is an awesome deal ---- well, might have been, if it had features..... now --- eh

$500 is the free state price. CA models are going to cost a bit more

[GM4spd]

In general, the whole gun market is buyers.


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Good point,although I wish there were something in the handgun market
worth buying.

[ca_sig_z]

Just curious, why wait until now to get an AR?
You could have easily picked up one for $500 within the last year.

Was on the fence for most of the year on getting a firearm the whole year. Finally pulled the trigger (pun intended) with a handgun (p226, which also blew my firearm budget with the Mrs for the year. Tho she likes to shoot it as much as I like do).

Yeah i get the CA Tax on guns would maybe be 600/700 but when I saw the Ruger listed near 1k at Peninsula Guns and Tactical it annoyed me at first. I am likely going to get an 10/22 first anyways and maybe lower to build up over the year. Or sneak an full AR and not tell the Mrs

[kcheung2]

Oh well you didn't mention it was a Ruger AR. In that case the high price isn't due to a CA surcharge, there's actually a good reason for it. It's the Ruger surcharge. It's the price you pay for a product that's 5 years too late to market & has no innovative features. Yeah it seems excessive, but once you look at Ruger's other products you'll see it fits right in.