AR-15 gunparts buy up

[Tackleberry]

The latest...I came up with this thought just like my buddy did, that there are no AR-15 parts available at any of the regular suppliers (and also no backorders allowed) because the government has systematically gone around and bought up all the parts to keep them from going into private hands. If you are a parts dealer and know that to be true, you are complicit
 

[bulletstuffer]

I have been watching too.  Nothing coming back online or the store shelves    If this was strictly a supply and demand issue the manufacturing companies would be working 24/7.  They would restock the shelves as that is how they make money.  Something is not right. 


Bulletstuffer

[garbhead]

I don't think the Govt buying all the stuff....If that was the case surely ONE of the hundreds of manufacturers would let it be known.....In the case of no backorders, I feel that is a case of pricing more than anything else. They don't want to backorder a receiver at $150, when they can jack up the price in a few weeks to $500 and people will still empty them out.....I have already noticed on Gunbroker that the prices of AR's and FN's are slowly falling...not much but some.

[guzzijohn]

It is nothing more than a big bunch of paranoid shooters that apparently have a lot of money to spend. Once again shooters have created their own shortages.
GuzziJohn

[SHOOTALL]

the ammo makers and gun parts makers are set up to run so many shifts and make a profit. OK say you ran a company that makes AR parts and had been thru several crisis like Y-2K and others would you jump into running your tooling OT for a few mos. then watch it set idle when all you sold was hitting the used market ? These guys know what they can sell in a normal year. They know how much the tooling cost and labor. If they change will they still make a profit ? How much will it cost to work OT or train new employees ? How much more will raw material cost when the market sees them buying more from mills that will now need to also work OT to keep up with demand . And what will happen during a slow down ? lose trained workers , some may start a company to compete aginst you. The same can be said about ammo makers how much do new machines cost ? how long before pay back ? These guys know the market and each in their own way will protect their share of it. If a few years shops will be buying back AR's and other guns at 50 cent on the dollar from panick buyers of today.

[Empty Quiver]

Could it be that the spare parts are being turned into complete weapons?


 What would make you more money as a DPMS CEO, selling all of your extra firing pins or saving them to put into your upper receivers coupled to your lowers? You not only fill the nearly unlimited demand for complete rifles but you turn a larger profit. 


No doubt the various assemblers of AR type rifles are a close knit bunch and are swapping, selling, and trading among themselves. By design all the parts are the same, or nearly so. The difference mostly lies in the attention to detail in final assembly.


I just don't see any Gov't entity moving fast enough for this scenario to be true. 

[garbhead]

Good point(s)  plus our govt is way too far beyond broke to buy anything

[Tackleberry]

@empty quiver...you are probably right. I might have purchased one of the last loose Lower receivers available in Jax back in Dec (lol...don't imply to me that I can't have an AR!!!!)  and I did ask the company about upper parts like bolt carriers..they said we are saving everything they have for builds...