AR-15 Lower buying.....

[confede]

Hey guys - I have a question here. I see where a lot of people seem to be scrambling to buy AR15 lowers as an investment in case of a ban.

Can someone explain the idea behind this? Is the idea that - if you own the lower you technically own a gun? Is the idea also that - down the road, even in the middle of a ban - one could obtain parts and finish the gun? I would think that manufacture of the necessary parts down the road would make those unavailable, illegal or unobtainable at a reasonable price.

What am I missing here? I don't get having a bunch of lowers if at some point it is impossible to get uppers............

Explain it to me - and i will buy a couple.

 

[MrM4]

theres a few things going on

Lower Whoring

People buying 15,20 or more lowers that they personaly have no intent of building into guns. They are expecting this ban to be like the last and they will have a safe full of "PRE_BAN" lowers i.e. "Valuable" Lowers This is some what risky as they may be unable to transfer or build them up after the ban comes in basically they beleive that they can make money on them.


Self Indulgence

People buying up lowers to build any and all combinations that they want or may ever want in the event that no new ones are allowed to be transfered to them.

Now or Never

You are seeing many new buyers buying 1 or 2 lowers, they have never had a AR, or maybe dad had one, or they had a m16 in the service, with Obama getting in alot of people waht them either to protect themselves or their familys or because they feel this is their last chance to own 1.

Just a couple more....

There are the guys that have been buying them for the last few years, and now that things maybe get rough they are grabing a couple more just to feel better about the world. .

There may be other reasons as Im sure the next few people will point out but thats what I have seen so far.

AND
After all the excitement over the election, A warm AR15 is more comforting then a big pair of T*ts wrapped around your head at the local strip club at 2 AM after 10 or 12 beers. :jester

 

[Glockdude1]

AND
After all the excitement over the election, A warm AR15 is more comforting then a big pair of T*ts wrapped around your head at the local strip club at 2 AM after 10 or 12 beers. :jester

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:clap

 

[WhisperFan]

One other reason is replacement parts. Since the lower is the registered part, chances are, you will still be able to buy uppers and barrels after a ban.

So - if you have several AR-15's as I do, and you shoot quite a bit. There is a possibility that you will wear one out. If a ban comes along and you can't (at that time) buy a lower, you have one less AR. You will still (most likely) be able to buy a new stripped upper, a charging handle or a bolt. You will probably be able to buy a replacement barrel, handguards, or a stock - that makes the hard part the lower.

After you have a lower, for another 50.00 or so bucks, you can get a lower parts kit and then another 75.00 or so and you get a rear stock, buffer, tube and spring. So- if you want to add 125.00 to the price of the lower, you can build them up into a complete lower. But then, you are going to want to have an upper to make it a rifle .... then another stripped lower as a spare .... oh well - might as well build up that lower .... what the hell - get another upper .... so then you need a stripped lower for a spare .....

You'll end up being able to arm up your own private army - lets hope you won't have to

 

[AZ Doug]

theres a few things going on

Lower Whoring

People buying 15,20 or more lowers that they personaly have no intent of building into guns. They are expecting this ban to be like the last and they will have a safe full of "PRE_BAN" lowers i.e. "Valuable" Lowers This is some what risky as they may be unable to transfer or build them up after the ban comes in basically they beleive that they can make money on them. ...

Others might call that speculating or investing and you are right, it is risky.

 

[GLOCKENNBOOMER]

I'm in the self indulgence crowd....I've ordered 2 lowers in the last month. One gonna be a 9mm SBR and another gonna be maybe a coyote gun?

 

[MrM4]

Others might call that speculating or investing and you are right, it is risky.

That was the original Title for that 1, but lower whoring just brought a smile to my face.

 

[Energizer]

Not if they pass a law preventing spare parts to be sold to complete guns. If your existing parts break, they may have a trade-in program, etc.. Also, as for "investments" to sell later, what if, like in CA, they decide to prevent transfer of certain categories... anything is possible. They could even recall ALL of them... like they could enforce such a thing, but still, you get the idea....

I'd buy as many parts you can get, not just lowers. A lower is useless w/o a basic parts kit.

 

[THM7]

First I would say it would be pretty hard to wear out a lower. There is very little stress exerted on the lower..with the possible exception of 9mm. Even then it could be repaired ie. egged out hammer pin, etc. I could see Obama trying to ban the lower's but the AR is used for a lot of sporting purposes now....so a huge argument could be made...and the Dem could be reminded of 96'. Some type of magazine ban (10 rnd) would make most sense..it could be pushed thru pretty easy IMHO.

 

[MGI]

Energizer, although nothing is beyond the scope of what the government may try, I would think that passing a law to control parts, which would be next to impossible to control, would not be practical. Since the lower receiver is the part most easily controlled, due to the serial number, it makes sense to control the trackable part. Just my two cents worth.

Mack.

 

[mmilo31]

Just as always....
buy what you can afford, but choose wisely.

 

[Energizer]

Energizer, although nothing is beyond the scope of what the government may try, I would think that passing a law to control parts, which would be next to impossible to control, would not be practical. Since the lower receiver is the part most easily controlled, due to the serial number, it makes sense to control the trackable part. Just my two cents worth.

Mack.

they've been trying to ban kits...

 

[MGI]

they've been trying to ban kits...

The neat thing about our truly modular system is that it is not a case of "kits" which may be banned. Since a truly modular system needs only to change out bolts, barrels and sometimes mag wells, no kit per say is involved. Of course, if a government was to ban these basic parts, we've all got more problems.

 

[mikillium]

mrm4,now if we could only figure out how to have a warm ar in our hands and a ginormis set of titties wrapped around our head at the same time,wed all be better off.:clap.then will figure out how not to spill our beer!