Guys,
If you wanted to stock up on mags, and wanted to get the ones that will likely be worth the most vs cost to obtain now, what would you get? I am fairly confident we will see a new magazine ban, so I want to stock up.
OR, do you think AR receivers might be a better investment?
Glock 17? XD? AR? AK?
You know where I stand but folks come on and VOTE!!! 
I guess the question are you trying to stock up to resell later to people ?
if so I think the glut of people doing this prices wont do what they did before and also the unknown ban ? if it happens we dont know what it will do to sales especially private sales
yes you can do them under the table but then what if the ban makes it illegal to sell any of your parts you have ! do you break the law ?
now my personal thoughts
I guess my thought is have what you want and will use for yourself
I would rather have complete rifles than a ton of lowers and mags !
my thought is buy complete kits
lets say you buy decent ammo at $400 a case and have say 10 cases ($4,000)
2 good rifles at say $1500 each
and about $1500 support for each in parts mags and optics
total ($6,000)
so for $10,000 I would rather have the above than say 40 lowers and 500 mags
if I was to stock up on anything it would be ammo as I can use that if a ban keeps me from selling anything
I have plenty for myself. I understand there are risks.
Anybody else have any thoughts?
I think Glock mags are probably the best bet. They remain the universal handgun, despite some inroads by other guns. AR mags are probably not so good, since they never go that high during the previous ban.
My guess, any gun or AR magazine over 10 rounds will be going for top dollar and beyond, just like the last AWB. The higher the capacity, the more coin it will cost you. Even gunstore owners were taking your extra high cap mag out of the gun case and selling them on the side, saying the manufacturers only shipped guns with one mag. These dishonest shit bag types will rise again.
They won’t be worth anything, because any new ban will likely have no grandfather clause and will make possession illegal…
That’s wonderful…Thanks for cheering me up Doc. Now I’m thinking rural areas and cache sites. Of course, all internet gun forums will be banned as well.
To arms! To arms!
Can I get a whoop-whoop?:mad:
That would truly suck… Would that represent the first time the government has actually outlawed a lawfully possessed item outside of prohibition?
Actually, that brings up another question. If I had a silencer, legally under NFA guidelines, and they changed the laws–I wonder if I’d have to destroy it. Transfer would be illegal and possession would be illegal.
I’m sure if Obamination gets into office, he, Nancy Pelosi, Chucky Schumer, Dianne Feinstein and the like will be more than happy to accomodate you by sending the Justice Dept and the ATF to knock down your door and relieve you of your naughty items. They would love to save you the trouble of having to go surrender them to a local agency for destruction. :mad:
If you brought me a sum of money and told me to put it in gun related gear for investment purposes, I’d probably buy the following:
50% in Glock Magazines
20% in AR Magazines
10% in AR Lowers
20% In G18 & Beta mags
First of all, you want things that will appreciate in value in case no ban comes. Glock mags will never get any cheaper while AR lowers have actually dropped a little from what I’ve seen. (A lot more sub-$100 lowers available nowadays)
If bought in bulk, you could buy AR magazines cheaply enough that you could probably turn a profit if resold today, but NIB QUALITY magazines will NEVER be worth less then the $10 a pop you might pay for them (same with $15 Glock mags). Then there’s the wildcard, G18 & betamags, that’s your high-risk/high-return investment. If a ban comes they’ll probably appreciate the most, but if it doesn’t the betas may be hard to unload.
As always, DIVERSIFY.
I’d also recommend ammo but between all the other commodities (and the dollar) right now, I don’t know if ammo prices know whether to wind their butt or scratch their watch. I’d be banking on them holding their own or coming down in the coming years but that’s only my (completely) uneducated opinion.
So there’s my $.02.
The ones you don’t have.
Be sure to VOTE!
I’m thinking along the lines of Doc, but, remember the last ‘AWB’…All the gun owners got their collective ‘stuff’ together and voted alot of the banners out!!!
If another AWB is voted on, and passed…big IF…then we would probably have grandfather clauses for the current owners, but any and all sales would be illegal for the transfer of any items in the current bill. This would put a clamp on people doing just what the OP is wanting to do…profit. Remember, the liberals want to spread the wealth around, not let anyone make money!!! Socialism all the way!!!
One other item about the fictional ban…THERE WON’T BE ANY SUNSET CLAUSE!!!
I am 100 percent convinced there will be a new AWB. I doubt, however, there will be a ban on ownership. More likely just a ban on manufacture.
Woah zippy, everyone’s talking from their ass, nobody knows what any new ban would contain. Calm down amigo. Your blood pressure will thank you.
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Bingo!!! Hit the nail on the head.
Just curious…Once a law is passed, how often is it repealed???
ALMOST NEVER!!!
No kidding. How long have they been talking about legalizing pot? Of course, they did repeal prohibition, but only after creating organized crime and getting the NFA passed.
i just ordered another 100 p-mags.