These should sell well
A Colt AR-15 in the mid $700s MSRP. Street price probably lower.
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August 1st, 2016 at 5:27 pm
Awesome move by Colt, but why would you leave the front sight post on a flat top?
August 1st, 2016 at 8:38 pm
About $650 to the dealer so they’re taking dead aim at S&W and Ruger. All else being equal I’d always prefer Colt even at the low end. How many can they crank out and sell in six months?
As an aside, not much fun being an FFL anymore. Dealers will end up selling those Colts for $700 (or “$699”) and a whopping fifty bucks gross profit on a product that’s a PIA to process and sell. I’m glad I’m no longer a participant; well, other than missing out on the cool old trades, but that has dried up a lot anyway because people are keeping their old shit and just buying new shit.
Here’s some sweet irony: the gun market is glutted right now with makers and dealers both online and glass counter, to the degree that some are pulling out. If they’re running a small to medium dedicated gun store they’ll probably give up soon; even with decent volume there’s not enough dollars there to carry a full facility and its overhead let alone make a profit. And there are many like me who have been licensed for many years but for whom guns were a side business and a way of handling firearm collections as part of our estate business…but for whom profit has dwindled while the process has changed for the bad, coming with high liabilities and de-facto fedgov deputization. Eff that.
Oh yeah, the irony. Which is that ten years ago there were just a few gun sellers in my little town, and even less buyers. Because they were available if you wanted one, until somebody said they might not be. At which time everybody wanted one or six and the supply chain got cranked up, resulting in I think I read about twenty million additions to the private arsenal per year compared to eight million back then. Thanks to Zero, widely acknowledged as the most accomplished gun seller and ambassador of modern times.
And that’s not even the sweetest irony; which is that the smarmy, effete, charismatic euro-commie buffoon really doesn’t grok that he almost single-handedly rebirthed and rebuilt a moribund industry that he was mutually irrelevant to, into a powerhouse “gun lobby” (yeah, that’s makers, sellers, and us). which has effectively destroyed his legacy as progressive gun grabber.
He really doesn’t get it. I guess he ain’t that smart.