Posted 23 November 2003 - 12:01 AM
Arthur, you do understand where Walter is coming from don't you? the mere fact is, that the Government is setting the prices here, by creating a supply and demand situation, due of course, to now fixed amounts of transferable machineguns in the system....
Of course looking around at the transferable machinegun prices on the web, the Shotgun news ETC, The amounts of the transferable guns available would possibly lead to the overconfident thought or statement, that there are plenty of transferables out there for all.
Not quite true, due to the amounts of "less desireable" machine guns making up the vast bulk of the transferables, ( Arthur, do you truly want crudely welded sten"a tube gun" instead of a Colt manufactured Thompson because it was the only transferable left for you to choose?)and obviously, a post sample doesn't count! because, all of the guns out there will eventually wear out! (it helps to think ahead to the near and far-future as i think that if we don't do something now..we won't have these wonderfully inventive firearms in the future) And unless new firearms become available, the prices will rise exponentially.
Why? of course due to the Government again! The desireable firearms like the Colt manufactured Thompson, will of course always be on the rise in price as they where made in a bygone classical era that conjures up various images of gangsters and prohibition? to people.
But the fact is the Govenment is setting the prices here due to power control issues! Not from the fact that they have any interest in the marketing segment of the NFA! Unless, of course they (the ATFE) have some type of investment scheme going on here! so, I do think that our problem is with the Government setting the prices..not the market!