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Big important thing: when you're price-checking guns, look at what they've actually sold for, look at what people have actually -paid- for the things. What Dealer Sweatsox -wants- for the gun is irrelevant. What matters is what the market will actually support. Again, checking out the "No Reserve" auctions on GB is a great way to do this because it gives you real-time feedback on what the market will pay for a given item. I just recently had to bust a guy's chops because he kept insisting that his used M1A was worth the full MSRP of $2300.00, despite the fact that they're actually -selling- for around half of that.
"But they're listed on GunBroker for $2300!"
>>"Yeah, but are any of them actually -selling- at that price? Is anybody actually -paying- that?"
"No, but..."
>>"What's the most they -are- paying?"
"....$1500."
>>"Exactly. So why would I pay $2300 for a gun that I'll only be able to sell for $1500?"
"But Springfield Armory says!...."
You can see how this turned out.
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"I personally think that America's interests would be well served if after or at the time these clowns begin their revolting little hate crime the local police come in and cart them off on some trumped up charges or other. It is necessary in my opinion that America makes an example of them to the world."
--Strange Famous, advocating the use of falsified charges in order to shut people up.
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