-
If you enjoy the forum please consider supporting it by signing up for a NES Membership The benefits pay for the membership many times over.
-
Be sure to enter the NES/MFS May Giveaway ***Canik METE SFX***
What are you going to buy before Hillary gets elected?
- Thread starter 55_grain
- Start date
A question for those of you saying you're picking up more lowers... Why? Is it because you just can't stop building rifles? Or is it because you want to resell them? I don't see a stack of lowers doing much good when the rest of the parts to build a rifle are hard to come by, or made illegal via a new AWB. Is the main idea that these will be preban lowers of another ban comes? As far as I know it doesn't work that way... But I must not know much if I have to ask. Just curious.
And to answer the OP, mags and ammo, and maybe lowers because NES told me to. Plus it's the only way to get in on buying the upper in Alex's group buy haha. I've been doing a decent job of stacking ammo over the past 6 months, need to keep momentum up.
And to answer the OP, mags and ammo, and maybe lowers because NES told me to. Plus it's the only way to get in on buying the upper in Alex's group buy haha. I've been doing a decent job of stacking ammo over the past 6 months, need to keep momentum up.
Lowers seem to be the parts that got ridiculous during the previous panics. They're currently pretty short money and it's not like they go bad.
- Joined
- Dec 2, 2005
- Messages
- 9,027
- Likes
- 5,516
The idea on lowers is like a registered machine gun sear, people figure the communists won't ban them outright, they will
do like the prior AWB and forbid new manufacture or sale of AR15s. Hence, the cheapest technically "this is the gun" part you can get
is a stripped lower.
I don't think that's a very good strategy, it just serves to postpone the inevitable and make people complacent ("at least I've got mine... and I can gouge for 200% profit when they're banned!")
do like the prior AWB and forbid new manufacture or sale of AR15s. Hence, the cheapest technically "this is the gun" part you can get
is a stripped lower.
I don't think that's a very good strategy, it just serves to postpone the inevitable and make people complacent ("at least I've got mine... and I can gouge for 200% profit when they're banned!")
55_grain
NES Member
![[smile]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/001.gif "Smile [smile]")
Trying to get a house so I can't buy much more then the frames and lower I already am getting...
These types of doomsday and naysayer threads serve no productive purpose. A lot can happen between now and November. Inducing panic and Chicken Little type responses "that the sky is falling" doesn't do anyone any good and is fatalistic and defeatist. It also helps drive up the price of guns and ammo and creates scarcity and shortages.
What is being proposed is one scenario out of several. Even if elected, Hildebeast is going to have to tread lightly because she is still going to have to face a GOP majority congress and we are going to see more government gridlock. Frankly I don't see how she is going to rule any more effectively than BarryO. Four years of Hildebeast would only ruin us that much more and make us that much more dysfunctional. I don't know why so many of you make her ten feet tall who will impose the New World Order. Bernie is a far more astute politician because he has survived all these years in elected office as a Socialist, no mean feat.
What is being proposed is one scenario out of several. Even if elected, Hildebeast is going to have to tread lightly because she is still going to have to face a GOP majority congress and we are going to see more government gridlock. Frankly I don't see how she is going to rule any more effectively than BarryO. Four years of Hildebeast would only ruin us that much more and make us that much more dysfunctional. I don't know why so many of you make her ten feet tall who will impose the New World Order. Bernie is a far more astute politician because he has survived all these years in elected office as a Socialist, no mean feat.
Asaltweapon
NES Member
If the opportunity presents itself in obtaining anything firearm related at a reasonable price determined by the buyers standards let me ask you; What's the downside?
Am I willing to go out and spend money of stuff because it's there? No.
Am I willing to spend it because I want the item and I think the price is OK? Of course.
Am I spending money on a credit card or is the fridge empty? Of course not. I spend it because I can and I want it. I never treat buying as an investment.
I'm sure I'm not alone.
But mark where else would people run around like chickens missing their heads? FWIW it's not going to matter if 1000 people here don't go full retard, the other tinfoil hat knitting circle types still will in November, every joe fungohead type is still gonna go FR, because prisonplanet, etc, etc, ad nauseam and the endless email forwards will do the same thing. The only way to stop it is if hitlery doesn't get elected.
![[laugh]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/012.gif "Laugh [laugh]")
-Mike
Yeah well I've seen panic buying before. If you want something and can afford it at a price you are willing to pay, that's intelligent consumerism which does not seem to be what this thread is about.
Individualist
NES Member
- Joined
- Jan 24, 2009
- Messages
- 4,663
- Likes
- 4,366
Its kind of a no brainer. Just don't go nuts. Stock up with the stuff you use or may use now at a decent prices. Some for you, some to sell at FR prices just before the election or if the Bitzz wins. Enjoy the profit. Buy again when things cycle back down. If the Rs win then sell at probably break even. Better risk profile than the stock market.
The reason for buying lowers is that they allow you to easily grandfather them if a future AWB follows the same pattern as the 94 AWB. All you need is one "preban" AR and you can assemble the parts on the other lowers for instant "preban" lowers.
55_grain
NES Member
True that.
Every new AWB that passed since the sunset of the 94-04 ban in no way mirrored the original,the only one that mirrored it was MA,but it really never expired from 94 then MA law enacted in 98.Thanks Mitt for supporting it !
I don't know where people come up with this stuff,or why they think they would do the same thing.Look at CA for your model of a new Fed AWB.
Last edited:
![[angry]](/xen/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.vb/008.gif "Angry [angry]")
heating fuel, this year i plan on stocking up with 4 tons of coal and hundreds of cut up pallets. hopefully a two year supply. hopefully i will get two more oil tanks and have over a thousand gallons of diesel fuel in my barn. in the ammo dept, im good for a bugout but not a sustained war. might buy one semi auto 12 ga two more cheap 500 pump guns and a few hundred rounds of buck shoot. its nice to pick up a loaded gun instead of loading one.
The federal government has less flexibility when it comes to bans because states can argue they are not performing an unconstitutional taking because banned things can be moved out of state. A federal ban won't have this loophole. Of course, if scotus goes crazy, that won't matter, but previous courts would have required grandfathering
Ammo and components for sure- mostly the ones that I would shoot in matches such as .223 and .30-06. LOL, with upcoming shoulder surgery I won't be burning though that much before the election comes, and I'm already in good shape for this season. I could use some 22LR, which the hoarders seem to keep hoarding.
I don't need anymore lowers, so I won't be bothering with that. Might be fun to go through all the hoops / get the stamp to build a SBR. I am thinking that since that they are so well regulated that SBR's won't be a target. That said, I'd hate to miss out on having at least one.
Seriously, WTF is wrong with people that they keep hoarding 22LR? I'm done buying small lots of odd ammo here and there. If I can't buy a decent brick of something that I can get again and again in the future I'll just leave the 22's in the safe after I run out of what I have.
I don't need anymore lowers, so I won't be bothering with that. Might be fun to go through all the hoops / get the stamp to build a SBR. I am thinking that since that they are so well regulated that SBR's won't be a target. That said, I'd hate to miss out on having at least one.
Seriously, WTF is wrong with people that they keep hoarding 22LR? I'm done buying small lots of odd ammo here and there. If I can't buy a decent brick of something that I can get again and again in the future I'll just leave the 22's in the safe after I run out of what I have.
the_shootist
Banned
earplugs!
Not good enough to suit me. I'm going for a pair of sharp pencils.
Kidding aside, she certainly makes the top of the list of most annoying politicians to listen to. The most condescending and arrogant ever.
gerrycaruso
NES Member
I had a chance to shoot the Ares belt fed upper and I liked it. I wanted to sell a couple of submachineguns and buy a belt fed machinegun but I'm considering one of these uppers for my M16. I'll also buy more components.
