Are these still worth selling to you poor oppressed people in Connecticut? I have both an a1 and a2 lower is why I ask.

Nope, not good to go here anymore. You are late to the game. Your only hope is a masshole.

Ty

I love me some PWA

still legal for us to buy, but there is no "preban" exemption so its not worth a premium here anymore.

Only thing good about this law is it gets price gougers out of here. The People who are still here are fighting these laws, getting the word out there to the blind anti gunners opening their eyes. We're here, we know what we're up against, we're still fighting and not running to another state.

+1

I'm all about capitalism...

There's Capitalism and there's greed / price gougers / taking advantage of others poor situations. These have nothing to do with Capitalism though the wise donkeys out there will try and act cute saying price gouging / greed/ taking advantage of others is Capitalism. Its not.

If one thinks this way then what they are doing would easily fit saying its socialism or communism.

Then color me a greedy capitalist. I have no problem with people selling or not selling their goods for whatever the market will allow because that’s what it’s all about.

OK guess I'll be the one to ask the question. Please explain to the class how a seller pricing their preban at a price the buyer feels is price gouging, being greedy or taking advantage of others poor situation when the buyer is not obligated to buy what the seller is offering?

If you believe or feel this way, how do you propose to force the seller to price their preban? What happens if that seller, who wants to make a profit on their preban, is now being forced to sell the preban below what they might have paid for it because others feel the seller was price gouging, etc.?

It sucks that the government created a market where a finite amount of items (prebans) will command a significantly higher price (i.e. market supply and demand in action). But the fact remains the buyer can choose NOT to buy that preban. If no one buy's the preban than maybe the seller will lower the asking price (i.e. market forces in action).

Exactly...I used to watch prebans with a dumb starting bid on gunbroker.  Eventually after nobody bought them, the price would come down to what I thought was reasonable, and I'd hit buy now.  In hindsight, I wish I'd just bought all new "other" stripped lowers as now in CT, an "other" lower that you bought before the new law for $75 bucks can be configured exactly the same as a PWA pre-ban that you bought for $900 once you have the AW certificate.  But before that legislation happened, I didn't see it in my non-existent crystal ball, so I was willing to pay a capitalist as much as the market dictated they could get for it from someone else.

It's no different than machine guns.  A pre-86 transferable converted lower...is a $75-100 lower with an extra hole drilled in it...but if you want one, you're going to pay ~$24k for it, and if it says "Colt M16" on it because it wasn't a conversion, you're going to pay ~$35k for it.  If you want a registered receiver MP5...probably close to $50k...it's capitalism.

My lowers sold for $2700 not a bad deal for me 😆

sure they did

Nice!  Did you sell them into an oppressed state that can still have prebans like MA?

That is the only state that has a preban category

Yes in Massachusetts it's amazing that people are willing to pay that much for an AR-15 lowers. Understandable though as they can build their gun how they want. It was worth it but hopefully the courts kill this so called "assault weapon" nonsense soon. I think I had a small window to get this done and I'm glad I did.

No sense in helping out a poor oppressed person. Let's rip them off while we still can.

When the libs destroy your state we can sit back and tell you to move to a free state.

I cant see anyone paying that price since their are literally thousands of prebans .......... they just dont command the premium they once did. So i have a hard time believing that they would sell for that much- If they sold , well thats a free market!

Price gouging is a myth. Market drives the price. If I price a preban at $2000 and it doesn't sell then I'm asking too much. If it does sell well then that's the market value.