Originally posted by STRATIOTES:
12 million firearms were sold IN America in the first year of office, 850K is nothing, especially when most of the firearms were good quality AR15's that sold, companies increased production to meet sales demand, so now many retail stores have a good stock of quality firearms.
Yes it would be nice to see the old rifles get some use but if this spurs people to get serious about a decent modern rifle it is not such a bad thing.
I could not agree more, and I will add that .30 carbine ammo is still scarce, so buyers would have shelled out FRNs for an old rifle, only to learn that ammo is expensive and hard to obtain.
On the other hand:
ARs are still cheap, and
.223/5.56 is still plentiful. God Bless what remains of America!
