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Posted: 9/19/2004 12:48:48 PM EDT
| How long will the mag market be inflated? I've heard the old-timers talking about how NIW 30's used to go for $5-$10 and 20's were practically free. I guess we've been programmed to pay ridiculous prices for used and refinished mags for so long, it will be will be a while before the baseline shifts back to the way things used to be. Or will it? Other states having their own ban doesn't help (still a market for pre-bans). With troops overseas, I guess the gov't doesn't have any reason to flood the market with surplus mags. Maybe the next gunshow will have some good deals. |
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How much did you pay for movie tickets in the early 90's, when the AWB happened? How much now? The people who fondly remember buying mags for $5 NIW are remembering the early/mid-80s. You know, back when new machineguns could still be manufactured, tons of USGI mags were being surplussed in addition to the supply of new production mags, and no one had heard of an "assault weapon." Today, standard-caps are not politically correct, manufacturers risk losing their USGI contracts (their bread & butter), liability insurance is much more expensive, and there are no such thing as surplussed weapons or ammo from the US military. If you're waiting for USGI mags to fall below $10 each NIW in small quantities, you'll be waiting a long time. -Troy |
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Well, the civy market for mags was pretty dry for the last... oh ten years. Obviously because we could'nt buy them. Now, the distributers with the lowest prices are all out due to the sunset. It's simple economics: The guy selling NIW 30's for $11.50 goes out first. Then everyone turns to the guy selling them for $12.50. Then $13.50 and sofourth. Us civies soaked up the market so quick that $16-17 is fairly common right now. All the ditributers are waiting for their next shipment of mags to sell. Oh, and when I say shipment, I mean thousands of mags. Give it a bit of time. The NIW @ $11.50 will be back. That's about as low as it will go, though. I asked my magic 8 ball and it told me: "That outcome seems certain." So you'll have to trust me. For the next year or so mag sales will will probably be a feast or famin as the flood gates open and close. |
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