I've always wanted to purchase some sort of belt fed machine gun. I'm wondering if, in this economy, are prices on MGs dropping? Is now a good time to think about picking one up?
Thoughts/speculations?
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I've always wanted to purchase some sort of belt fed machine gun. I'm wondering if, in this economy, are prices on MGs dropping? Is now a good time to think about picking one up?
Thoughts/speculations?
Any time you introduce an artificial condition to a market, prices will not reflect rational market conditions.
To speculate that prices will drop while demand increases, would be foolish, in my opinion.
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Obviously there is a fixed stock of them so they should go up in value in the long run.
I have no hard data, but just eyeballing subguns.com and other common MG sales boards over the last year or so, it "seems" like prices have at least flattened out and maybe even dropped a small amount, presumably due to the economy and MG owners losing their jobs, losing money on other investments, etc. and having to liquidate them.
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i've sort of been looking at M16s recently, and it does seem like prices have dropped a little. demand for these things will never die, so they likely to stay prohibitively expensive for as long as they're legal.. however, just like ALL things gun related- people did a lot of buying they couldn't afford in the last year, and are trying to sell. gun broker is flooded with all the stuff you couldnt find in the last year, and nobody is buying at inflated prices. this means prices are going to fall- on everything. the people that bought m16s and mp5s and so forth are in no better shape than anyone else, and those prices will fall, too, as people desperately try to avoid forclosure. in fact, as i type this, seems to me machineguns just might go down substantially- people who could afford a $15k m16 a few months ago aren't elligeable for the Obamanation's forclosure prevention program, most likely.
just might be gettin me a m16 sometime soon... :)
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i'm not really into the MP5 either.. i put a few magazines through one a few months ago and wasn't really impressed. in fairness, a few magazines sure as shit isn't enough to conclude anything, but i don't have any complaints about an FA M4... so why pay more for something that may or may not give me jollies?
i found muzzle control to be a pain in the ass, and kept mentally/reflexively reaching for a VFG that wasn't there.. didn't care for the LOP, and, naturally, the controls were alien to me. altogether, i'd much rather pay half as much for an M4/M16. ammo sure is cheaper, though.