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Originally Posted by Rick Lee
It's never been cheaper to build ARs and 80% lowers up to 100%. I've done a few builds and it's fun to shop for the best deals and then see it all come together.
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Yeah the cost is what got me. I bought my first AR in '92 for $500 - an Olympic carbine. Sold it in '94 for enough to get into a basic FAL. Sold and bought FAL over the years, making enough on the Century and get into kit builds on Imbel and DCI and DSA receivers when the '94 ban sunset.
Then the Obama years and AR prices went through the roof and then Trump got elected and prices dropped like the proverbial rock. I couldn't turn something down at those prices, so $400 here, $500 there and next thing you know I have 3 ARs (a 9mm carbine, a 556 carbine and a 556 rifle).
And here I am spending almost 800 on a fourth... since I got out of 762x51 for cost reasons I don't see ever getting into the AR10 world thankfully...