Infidel4life11:
So your idea of being a good American is to pass up the opportunity to make a profit and sell your weapons for .65 cents on the dollar when the market is dictating two or three or four times that. How that does equate to being a good American? Maybe it makes you a good Comrade.
These people are now scrambling to buy weapons that most of us on THR KNEW would eventually be a target of this administration in a second term. All that was needed to justify what is about to happen was a "good" crisis. I remember someone once saying that a good politician "Never lets a crisis go to waste."
But back to the OP's point, if I had an extra AR, I don't know what I would do. I might see if one of my friends needed one and sell it to him at a small markup from what I paid. I might post it online and get everything I could for it so I could buy extra ammo or another gun I wanted. I don't know. The point is it would be my choice, and it would be someone's choice to buy that AR from me at the "inflated" price; or not. As long as the potential buyer knows EXACTLY what he is getting and he agrees to pay the asking price of his own free will, nobody is getting screwed. However, if a third party steps in and says you can only sell your AR for X amount and the potential seller does not feel that is a fair price for HIM to sell it at, then guess what, no ARs for you! Now everyone is getting screwed! The market will be devoid of ANY ARs. How is that fair to someone who waited too long and is now wanting to purchase an AR?
Sure I think it is dumb to pay $2,400 for a $800 AR, but I'm not about to ask for the government to step in and fix it. That is the only way you could control it.
For those of old enough to remember, Jimmy Carter tried to control gas prices. "As always happens, when the government tries to circumvent the laws of supply and demand to artificially set a price, the supply dries up. No one will continue selling a product after the profit has been taken out. It's too bad Jimmy Carter never studied Economics 101." Quoted from "http://www.low-cost-gas.org/gasoline-price-history.html"
You can't protect people from themselves. I have enough to do with protecting myself and my family from idiots and oblivions.