Why is everyone selling 80% lowers recently?

[unusedusername]

I know there is a market for folks who like to finish their own 80%s, but I was under the impression that the "finish your own gun" crowd was more like 5% of the gun-buying population.

I see 15 different threads out of the first page of 50 threads in the commercial sales section all selling 80% lowers. Are 30% of all the commercial sale posts all selling the same product? That has got to be pretty rare.

Is the demand so crazy right now that the manufacturers are just dumping incomplete product on the market, or is there really that much of a market in 80%s?

I do kind of want an AR-10 lower if one can be had for reasonable prices. I'd kind of prefer a whole one though, not just 8/10s of one

[Merc1138]

A lot of it is the ability for people to become manufacturers and dump incomplete product on the market. Less hoops to jump through compared to selling completed lowers(both regarding sales, and manufacturing).

Additionally with a rise in 2a awareness nationwide(sales of 100% lowers through the roof, becoming almost impossible to find for a bit, and still expensive), plus looming CA legislation makes the idea of something "off the books" quite appealing.

[pitbull30]

I think there is so many posts recently is because the market is coming back and maybe some manufacturers ramped up production. Now they have a ton of extra product to offload.

[Subotai]

It's because the commies can't confiscate what they don't know about.

[rjpsb1]

At the start (all during really) of this latest buying panic, 80% paperweights suddenly became hot because you couldn't find complete lowers or full firearms. Demand spiked, there was lots of talk about it, so a bunch of producers upped their output. We're seeing the results of that now.

[Maltese Falcon]

It's because the commies can't confiscate what they don't know about.

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[the86d]

It's because some pinko journalist made an 80% AK-47, shot it, disregarded Liberty, and destroyed it, all on video... yet raised awareness of legally home-built products. Many didn't know 80%'s were legal until Democrats raised awareness (of the 2A) and people started researching firearms and came across the info. (Thanks Obama!)

Market research...

[LMTluvr]

The fight doesn't always have to be direct.

[MKE]

Cheapest and easiest way to an AR pistol. Also keeping it off the grid is an apparent benefit - at least for now.

[asm_]

No license needed to mfg or sell 80%. We now have any one with a home build CNC mill cranking out 80% that often have quality issues.

Also, have you ever notice most of 80% offer for sale now are billet (milled) not forged? Manufacturing Milled lower has minimal start-up cost. You just need a CNC mill and chunk of metal. Where as forged lower commonly found in mil-spec lower require access to a forging plant. You can either have a forging plant built for couple of million of dollars, or get in line with everyone else and buy the raw forged lower from existing sources.

In comparison, the start-up cost for making billet lower is almost nothing if you already have a CNC mill.

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[Eljay]

There do seem to be a lot of machine shops that decided this would make a nice little side business.