Surplus rifles

[Dentoro]

Any end to the drought? Where has It all gone? Has it all been sold? Are there no more big countries to drain of surplus? Could we have possible bought it all? We need more cheap bolt action rifles and pistols and lord we need cheaper ammo to keep feeding em!!! When will these ridiculous prices go away? What is going on?

 

[GLOCKMAN23C]

Any end to the drought? Where has It all gone? Has it all been sold? Are there no more big countries to drain of surplus? Could we have possible bought it all? We need more cheap bolt action rifles and pistols and lord we need cheaper ammo to keep feeding em!!! When will these ridiculous prices go away? What is going on?

I've been wondering the same thing. I looked At some Mosins over the weekend and they were $200+. I want my $65-90 rifles back.

 

[IndyDave1776]

The problem is that everything eventually dries up. I would love to have the surplus Bannerman was selling a century ago, even at prices fairly reasonable by the standards of today rather than the buck fifty of back then, but those guns no longer exist. We have reached a point where much of what is becoming available is illegal to import and/or prevented from being entered into the NFA registry by the Hughes Amendment which is exactly what the MFSBs responsible for that amendment wanted.

 

[Wolfhound]

The surplus rifles are in private collections and like IndyDave said the supply has simply dried up. Lots of us collect and few are willing to sell. I will sometimes try to purchase sporterized military rifles and restore them to original condition whenever possible.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Any end to the drought? Where has It all gone? Has it all been sold? Are there no more big countries to drain of surplus? Could we have possible bought it all? We need more cheap bolt action rifles and pistols and lord we need cheaper ammo to keep feeding em!!! When will these ridiculous prices go away? What is going on?

1. There will be no end to the drought.

2. Mostly blast furnaces.

3. What could be sold, was sold. Sam Cummings is long gone. There are no hustlers anymore. The gun industry, like everyone else, wants stuff handed to them.

4. What can be bought, was bought. There plenty of stuff out there in many different countries (just think of all those Albania SKSs that went into the furnaces), but it is being destroyed not sold.

5. By ridiculous prices you mean market prices? The market is here to stay like clocks or calendars.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

I would love to have the surplus Bannerman was selling a century ago, even at prices fairly reasonable by the standards of today rather than the buck fifty of back then, but those guns no longer exist

Fire.

 

[jasonh31]

There aren't many countries left that the bolt action is even in surplus anymore. Select fire rifles have been in service for over a half century, the bolt actions were going to dry up at some point sadly.

 

[Wolfhound]

There is an 1891 Argentine Mauser in the classifieds right now for 180.00.

 

[Woobie]

I hear ya neighbor. I want a k31 something fierce, but I've resigned myself to the fact that I'll have to pay some decent coin to get one.

 

[indynotch50]

I think CMP was set to release a large number of garands.

 

[Miller Tyme]

The golden age of cheap military surplus is over, Most military rifles produced in the last 50+ years are of the assault weapon variety, which doesn't lend itself to the 03 market and goes against the anti 2nd crowds agenda

 

[Hop]

I snagged a decent number of surplus guns but still have holes in my collection. Prices for what I'm wanting have gone way up. It was easy when bolt guns were sub $200.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

The golden age of cheap military surplus is over, Most military rifles produced in the last 50+ years are of the assault weapon variety, which doesn't lend itself to the 03 market and goes against the anti 2nd crowds agenda. And besides, I bought all the Mosins.

FIFY...

 

[Mgderf]

FIFY...

Beat me to the punch.

 

[Dentoro]

Any chance laws may change to allow importation from other places? Or have they just all been taped?

 

[kennedy759]

I have sold off all of mine, except for my very first a russian m44 and my swede that I shoot and reload for. I used the money to start a 16ga shotgun collection.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Any chance laws may change to allow importation from other places? Or have they just all been taped?

Repeal? Yes, that happened in 1986 in the FOPA.

However, you will not bring Samuel Cummings back to life and you will not repeal the Law of Supply and Demand.

 

[Kirk Freeman]

Samuel Cummings, the reason you have a "Moi-zen" and/or "Mow-sur", there will never be another: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Cummings

 

[turnandshoot4]

These are no longer "surplus rifles." They are now "collector rifles."

The surplus is long gone.

 

[1775usmarine]

I'm leaning towards getting as many surplus pistols as I can. I see CZ 50's for under 250, though I got my eye on one that is 165 just to break the ice on my C&R.