Buy ar or couple handguns

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With 9 other guns it's entirely likely one has seen 30 rounds thru it and got put in the safe. Saying the AR would suffer the same fate means some of the handguns should get sold for the AR. Best of both worlds - still got guns, but you use them more, got an AR, looks cooler just sitting there.

Like was said, nobody carries all their handguns.

Spec the AR to do something you could do, like, hunting in your state. If handgun hunting was on the table, it opens the seasons up to scout during long gun season. Don't have to actually shoot it, but nobody complains about carrying a light weight rifle outdoors during a legal shooting time and zone looking for game. It's just advanced range shooting in a 3D environment, which really expands the skill set. Checking for backstop, knowing your target, everything necessary carrying a handgun still required, in a live zone of action.

Very much the reason a lot of combat arms prior service go hunting. Keeps the skill set exercised at an enjoyable level of performance with some real world standards still needed.

Can't do that much in daily carry in an urban situation. If anything, you don't get to raise a gun and sight in on various objects on the street ever. Daily carry is an exercise in never getting to do much of anything - carrying an AR in the woods is an exercise in practicing to do anything.

It's what the AR could be used for, others can chime in.
 
How about you go shoot an AR before you listen to people telling you to spend $700-$1500 on one. If you love it, then you can go ahead and get one. If not, then there are two pistols in your future. I am not an AR guy. I've shot them. I like them. But I'm not going to buy one unless I find and absolute steal on one (50% of what Buds sells for new) Great guns. Extremely versatile. But just not my thing. So go shoot one and let us know what you decide. You might absolutely fall in love with the AR.
 
I don't shoot my AR because there is just no place close enough to my house to shoot it. But I know it's there should I ever need it, and that in itself is comforting. Should another Hurricane hit or other natural disaster, or a domestic upheaval, at least I have something that can reach out a bit farther than my half dozen carry guns can.
And where I live everyone has a shotgun or rifle, so should the bad guys come looting, we don't have enough police to cover the thousands of acres of land necessary, you could be on your own for few days or longer, having a rifle like that is a little comforting. Plus the times I have shot it, I liked it very much, I could easily teach my wife to use it should the need arise.
 
my thinking was a 1 big bore hand gun and 1 big bore rifle...and buy a few 22lr guns ..semi, revolver handguns, bolt rifle ..semi rifle because they are easy to shoot ..kids and adults like them ..easy to learn on...and there will never be a shortage of 22 ammo...:banghead:
 
Maybe a pistol caliber carbine and a 40 shield . A three hundred yard shot requires an acreage to defend. If you're a hunter maybe a 308 or varmint load depending on your quarry. You can tell I like my shield.
 
^^??? Just like ammo prices were never going to be lower than you said they were 6 moths ago? I don't typically start arguments, but Queen's post about prices never being lower than they are now is completely unfounded.
 
Buy the AR.

I buy firearms to shoot, some as collector pieces (shot rarely), and some as investments.

A $700 AR might be a $1400 AR if the next election doesn't go well. A carry gun......won't go up a bit, only down.

And if you do get an AR-15 (or AR-10), buy as many mags and ammo as you can. Better bets than the stock market.
 
wow6599 said:
A $700 AR might be a $1400 AR if the next election doesn't go well. A carry gun......won't go up a bit, only down.
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How many times have I heard that one? ARs that sold for $900 a while back are now on sale at my LGS for $799, while the new 637s are now $439 as compared to the $369 I paid just a year ago. I know several folks that bought ARs back after the election in '08 thinkin' they were gonna be a big money maker. They're still looking at a losin' proposition. Look at the availability of ARs compared to the availability of quality handguns today and tell me which ones are in more demand.


Most guns are not going to make you any more money than any other investment....especially if you shoot them. Modern firearms are not going to appreciate that much in our lifetime to see much monetary gain. The OP is not talking collector firearms here, he is talking about subjective opinions between two current production platforms. One he knows much about, one he has little or no experience. One he says he knows he'll use, one he claims he won't use much. If the OP has a fair amount of expendable income, then buying something that he will use little is not a big deal. If he has a limited amount of expendable income, buying something just to have makes little sense, regardless of what works for us.
 
How many times have I heard that one? ARs that sold for $900 a while back are now on sale at my LGS for $799
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Buck, do you not remember folks spending $2000 and up for $750 ARs after the 2012 election? GB was full of them.

2008 Election? Post '94 AWB prices?

It's more about what will happen to SCOTUS if we lose another election, and I can guarantee you if we lose another, and we lose a Justice, prices will skyrocket.
 
Anyone that will spend $800+ for an AR to only shoot 30 rds thru it before putting it away....doesn't understand or appreciate AR's. [i[Possibly,[/i] those 30 rds would begin to reveal the true potential of the AR, but who knows? Lotta money to spend just to find that out.

There was a recent cop show where the good guys had AR's on them, but got into a gunfight with bad guys armed with handguns. They SLUNG their AR's so they could return fire with their handguns! The writers don't understand or appreciate AR's, either.

I'm torn, as every serious gunner needs to own at least one MBR, but the attitude shown has convinced me the AR is best saved for someone who does understand and appreciates them.

I suggest the OP buy ammo or reloading gear instead.
 
The writers don't understand or appreciate AR's, either
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They don't understand anything, its fiction and "action entertainment". Good guys with pistols regularly defeat bad guys with machine guns, or firearms prove so ineffectual they end up duking it out bare knuckles for good to triumph. We'll ignore all the times that concealment becomes cover in the TV and the movies :)
 
Ever see Quigley down under, at the end he says , I said I didn't have much use for them, not that I didn't know how to use them". Everyone should have an AR, it's like life insurance, only you can collect on it more than once.
AN M4 is far superior to a pistol under almost any conditions. The amount of accurate firepower is just superior than a bad guy with a pistol. It has been show over and over again with home invasions, Rifle beats pistol every time. Plus if you have the correct optics and illumination, you have a platform that is hard to beat.
unfortunately there are few places to shoot them over 100 feet near me. But you don't forget, especially with such a user friendly weapon, put on a laser/strobelight, and you are good to go.
 
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