Will all of these new AR owners be able to afford the ammo?

[BearGriz]

As to the original question:

I think it depends on what these new AR owners consider expensive and what they consider to be a good amount of ammo. Some people are content to shoot 50 rounds in one trip, others feel the need to fire off 500.

It seems to me that newbies are often more content with a few "bangs" out of a gun, while some of the veterans to firearms need more to satisfy them.



Edited off topic material -taliv

 

[happygeek]

I'm guessing not. and i'm guessing they're not willing to spend the extra $600 in order to procure necessary reloading components and the hundreds of hours needed to skillfully craft a quality handload.

Given this, I think we'll see a glut of ARs on the secondary market within several months to a year. Also, as others have said, many of these purchases have been on plastic, and buyers remorse will set in after months of the AR laying under the bed in the box unused.

My wife and I bought an AR back in early 2009 without even realizing there was a panic on. I'd just come back to the states in Jan 09, bought my first pistol, was looking for our first rifle, and failed to do research into what the price should be. Luckily it was a CMMG 22LR upper on a RRA lower, and while I did overpay back then I've gotten a LOT of use out of it (something like 17,000 rounds and a trip to Appleseed).

Not everyone reloads, some of us just get a 22LR upper and enjoy.

Sidenote, in my couple years now of being 'into guns' it seems like this hobby gets an awful lot of artificial price distortions, mostly from politics. For example I'd love to own a SVT-40, and apparently in Canada they can get them for around $300 - 400 because they're still importing them, but the US isn't and hence people are paying dang near $1,000. Real Russian or Chinese Dragunovs being another example, price is far higher due to artificial restrictions on supply imposed by politicians.

 

[Robert]

Hundreds of hours? I can load 200 rds in an hour or so no problem.

 

[Reloadron]

Ammunition, here are a few real good deals:

<SARCASM>

Wolf .223 FMJ can be yours for the paltry sum of $900 for 900 rounds. Only a buck a round for this stuff.
Just makes me want to drive 4 hours to Cincy.

Then too, I am in luck as this guy is local to me. Wow 500 rounds for $500 such a great deal.

</SARCASM>

Have A Cool Yule
Ron

 

[taliv]

Rifle country is not the place to engage in philosophical debates about the existence of price gouging