Or, like many people I know, have to sell them to make the house payment, insurance payment, or put food on the table.

I brokered a deal between a guy I used to work with and my brother this weekend for a Springfield Armory Range Officer 1911. The guy needed to make his car payment, and my brother just happened to have $400 cash burning a hole in his pocket...guy keeps car, brother gets a hell of a deal on a really nice .45 that would otherwise cost him at least twice that amount.

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I built one a couple of years ago... I highly recommend Bill Springfield for the trigger group/lower parts kit. He did great work on mine. I also used a Spikes Tactical tungsten buffer. For some upper goodness I put in a chrome plated m16 bcg from Spikes. Also had the Eotech 512. It was a fantastic weapon; I hated to sell it.

ouch... hope I never reach a point where I have to sell things to make payments on other things....

Guess that's why my DD is a 32 year old 300SD....

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On some nights I still believe that a car with the fuel gauge on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. - HST

1983 300SD - 305000
1984 Toyota Landcruiser - 190000
1994 GMC Jimmy - 203000

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To big, I can run an Aimpoint on the European guns, the Eotech is to wide and will take a chunk out of my finger when I charge a Sig or Scar.

Eotech is designed for rear charging, ie AR's.

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2006 CL500
2009 C300 4matic
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Sadly I can't own anything with AR15 stamped on it, they have to call it something else.

I'm buying a Stag 15 lower.

AWB nonsense.

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2006 CL500
2009 C300 4matic
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

More likely than not I'm going to buy a complete upper with the bolt and everything, probably from LMT, CMMG, or Noveske.

I just need to build the lower and those parts are actually not crazy at the moment and available. As for uppers I'm going to have to wait probably until next year when things calm down.

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2006 CL500
2009 C300 4matic
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Your lucky to find an AR lower. Here in CA they are all but gone. I called a shop about a week ago. They had a DPMS lower for sale. I asked them to hold it one day, because I would be on that side of town the next day with a co worker. My co worker called the same shop and payed them over the phone for a Stag lower.

We get to the shop the next day... The owner of the shop claims to have never got my request to hold the lower and sold it. He tells my co worker that he had also sold his lower and offered him a refund.

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Yeah they are hard to get here as well. Every gun company pretty much sold their entire 2013 production in a week!

I was at my usual gun store the other day and the owner got a call from someone looking for an AR, his response was "America's run out!"

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2006 CL500
2009 C300 4matic
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

Seriously, After my trip to the gun store I was talking to my mom in San Antonio, and she told me that a guy in her office was having the same problems, I told her "We've all got problems if Texas has run out of guns!"

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AR15, Stag stripped lower receiver : Semi Auto Rifles at GunBroker.com

I have my lower, now my EBR build can commence!

It still burns me that I paid $305 for a part I could have gotten a month ago for $135, but whatever. I have a feeling in CT at least its my last chance to get one without spending $900 on a pre ban.

All the AR companies are sold out as of right now until next year...

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2009 C300 4matic
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

$305 isn't bad if you play it right. I paid almost that much for one back in one of the Clinton inspired gun control scares. Built it and later traded that gun for a 68 Mustang. Pretty cool car, ac and mostly original. Sold it for a nice profit after I played with it for a while.

My standard for an AR build was to consistently hit a target at 100yrds that I couldn't see with my naked eye.

Kind of hope that's how it works, although I might not sell this one.

I'm going to take my time over the next year and get the parts, I want to use the best and lightest I can get. I want to do more research into the AR platform first.

My biggest complaint with all the modern rifles is all the crap people tack on to them and before you know it you have a 10lb gun. The theme for this build is going to be light weight. Danial Defense has an upper I like that's pretty light but its still a combat upper and not a target one. I already know I'm going to put a light on the front and an Aimpoint on the top, other than that its a KISS rifle.

https://danieldefense.com/upper-receiver-groups/mid-length-urg/daniel-defense-m4-urg-v7-lightweight.html
Right here, only thing I might want them to change is the barrel to 18in. I think I might go longer on this riffles barrel. The 5.56 round especially the heavy 70 grain plus ones they are loading these days seem to better with as long of a barrel as you can get.

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2009 C300 4matic
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

It's not just AR's and their black ilk. I have almost no interest in that type of gun but have noticed the prices on just about everything that I normally would look at creeping up steadily over the last few weeks. Especially used guns where dealers can ask whatever they want as there are no price guidelines from manufacturers to work off of.

- Peter.

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2021 Chevrolet Spark
Formerly...
2000 GMC Sonoma
1981 240D 4spd stick. 347000 miles. Deceased Feb 14 2021
2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
1981 240D 4spd stick. 389000 miles.
1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S

Actually now is a good time to pick up some C&R guns and 1911's. No one is buying 1911's!

Gunbroker right now has about 4 SVT40's on it for under $1k, I don't think I have seen a selection that good in a long time.

Everyone is spending their money on EBR's, so now is the time to buy collectable firearms.

If I had some spare cash lying around I'd buy one of those SVT40's, a couple were early war construction to, one a Fin capture.

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2006 CL500
2009 C300 4matic
1969 280SE
2023 Ram 1500
2007 Tiara 3200

If I had money I'd be buying lots of things as well. Unfortunately I've had to hemorrhage almost three thousand bucks on suburb nazi required yard work and unintended vehicle repair over the last month and am literally flat broke. Sucks big time. On a possibly positive note, I came across a Czech 98/22 mauser in a local store with an asking price of 400 bucks on it. I have two of those which I payed 150 and 90 for respectively about ten years ago so assuming that this (ridiculous in my opinion) asking price is currently realistic it means mine have undergone a nice increase in value over the years.

Not that I'm about to sell them any time soon of course.

- Peter.

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2021 Chevrolet Spark
Formerly...
2000 GMC Sonoma
1981 240D 4spd stick. 347000 miles. Deceased Feb 14 2021
2002 Kia Rio. Worst crap on four wheels
1981 240D 4spd stick. 389000 miles.
1984 123 200
1979 116 280S
1972 Cadillac Sedan DeVille
1971 108 280S