Sam1911
Moderator Emeritus
Certainly so, eventually that's inevitable.So what will the future look like? Just commercially produced firearms, and an occasional surplus rifle being sold for like $500?
The only equivalents to military surplus that are likely to be available in the future are modern-produced variations of military rifles built to conform to US law for civilian firearms. That means rifles built (or to some extent "rebuilt") by companies for commercial sale. Items made to military spec, since the last quarter of the 20th century, are not lawful for sale to US civilians. Hence, no more military surplus guns.
It is possible that foreign military sidearms may still be surplussed out and lawfully imported in the future, as they rarely have the capacity for automatic fire. But that's by no means a sure thing considering how many agreements, executive orders, import laws, and trade agreements have to be worked around.