Boomstick's and shooty shooty bang bang's - The GUN Thread!

LindyAF

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Kind of want to get one, but will probably still be a while. Though honestly I would also love to have an FN-49.

For your first gun I'd just go AR for a rifle or a polymer striker fired pistol (glock is the prototypical one here, but the SIG 365 and Springfield Hellcat r/n have an advantage when it comes to capacity in a subcompact IIRC). Yes, they're what everyone else has got... but there's a reason everyone else got them.
 

DocSolarisReich

Esoteric Spaceman
For your first gun I'd just go AR for a rifle or a polymer striker fired pistol (glock is the prototypical one here, but the SIG 365 and Springfield Hellcat r/n have an advantage when it comes to capacity in a subcompact IIRC). Yes, they're what everyone else has got... but there's a reason everyone else got them.

Add a Mossberg 590A1 and you have the trifecta of mature technology fighting firearms.
 

Captain X

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Osaul
Oh I am well past the point of getting a first gun. :giggle: My first gun was a No. 4, Mk. 1 Lee-Enfield I picked up at an auction. My first pistol was an old Romanian Tokarev. Aside from a Marlin .22, I don't have any semi-auto rifles, though, as they've generally been too expensive for me, so the Garand, FN-49, and an SKS are still on my wish list for older rifles. I'd actually honestly never given much thought to an AR until fairly recently, though.
 

prinCZess

Warrior, Writer, Performer, Perv
Decent ARs used to be super cheap. Not as much right now.
Went to a gunshow the other day. This is very accurate.
Entry-ARs of the S&W, Sig, or Palmetto State variety are 400 or 500 dollars more expensive than they were before Wuhan flu. I haven't actually juggled numbers, but I'm 90% sure that someone is better off from a price-inflated to quality standpoint buying a serious, 1500-dollar AR nowadays for only a little more than they used to go for rather than paying so much more for less gun.
Also true of the generic polymer striker pistols as well. My God. M&P have become ~$500 guns. PrinCZess remembers specials on them making it be around 300 or maybe even less (I am beginning to doubt my sanity).

SKS have become collecting material too by what I saw. Cheapest Yugo was at $600, and others floated around the 700-800 mark...and the same thing is happening to, of all things, Mosins. ~450 was a pretty average price, despite there being lots of the things around for sale.
Buck a pop .223 and .90 per for 9mm...Magazines starting to crawl up in price...About the only thing that seemed to be consistent was the price for standard bolt guns that weren't milsurp (though I can't say for sure because I haven't paid as much attention there and they're always less advertised than the entry-ARs).

So, to sum up the status of US firearms market and community: Everything is horrible and I hate it. :p

Let's see if that goes to the Supreme Court.
My lack of legal-eagle-ittude is going to clearly show, but if SCOTUS declines to hear it the district court decision stands nationwide, correct? Or does it only stand for that district?

Assuming national effect, it might be one where SCOTUS punting is a positive end, since I can easily imagine Roberts waffling out if it actually went to the black-robes voting it out.
 

Laskar

Would you kindly?
Founder
Well. Been to a gun show myself this weekend. That is a story in itself, because I've planned to go to a show every weekend since the middle of March, and the only one I managed to get to was the show near my hometown, which I don't live near and didn't know about until five minutes before.

Strange dynamic. There were slightly fewer vendors this time (Possibly because there was a concurrent show on the other side of the state) but more people than normal. Far more people. There was a line to get in, and this is after the fairgrounds punted the gun show out of its usual location to make room for a vaccination clinic and a dog show.* I had to direct two different groups of people to the pavilion where the show was being held. I think I saw a lot more faces, and definitely a younger crowd than usual.

Ammunition prices ranged from "Competitive with SGAmmo" to "You Gotta Be Shitting Me." There's this one vendor who always has a few stripper clips of overpriced 7.62 Soviet on his table, and this time he didn't disappoint. The stickers that used to say "$5" now say "$20", for a measly ten rounds!

It's remarkable at all that there were wholesale ammunition vendors here. I think that's a first. Maybe there were vendors selling ammo by the crate during previous ammo panics, but even the vendor who used to be the 'ammo guy' sold loose boxes of cartridges.

*Because, you see, if something went wrong at the show, then the ATF would show up, and if a handful of ATF agents are in close proximity to that many dogs, the whole area is going to turn into a free-fire zone.
 

DocSolarisReich

Esoteric Spaceman
Speaking the evils of all things SIG...

NEWINGTON, N.H., (May 11, 2021) – Today, SIG SAUER, Inc., filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Rock Island Division, alleging that Springfield, Inc. (Springfield Armory) infringes two SIG patents relating to SIG’s P365 magazine.

 

Captain X

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Osaul
So how much would people pay for say a Springfield 1903 with target sites or a Remington P-14, out of curiosity? Purely out of academic interest, of course. 🤓
 

Husky_Khan

The Dog Whistler... I mean Whisperer.
Founder
Sotnik
Speaking the evils of all things SIG...

NEWINGTON, N.H., (May 11, 2021) – Today, SIG SAUER, Inc., filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Central District of Illinois, Rock Island Division, alleging that Springfield, Inc. (Springfield Armory) infringes two SIG patents relating to SIG’s P365 magazine.


I missed the memo. I'm not supposed to like SIG anymore? Because I do like SIG. I like it a lot...
 

Yinko

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So how much would people pay for say a Springfield 1903 with target sites or a Remington P-14, out of curiosity? Purely out of academic interest, of course. 🤓
Depending on provenance and condition, between $800-$3000. At least that's what I saw on Gun Broker .
 

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