It is a good time to buy. Yes OP a lot of people are broke. When everyone was panicking last year and buying $1,200 DPMS Oracles I was saving my money. If you search through my posts last year I said back in Jan 2013 that days like this would come. The market swelled so big so fast it couldn't possibly sustain it's self and would collapse. That is what has happened. Every weekend for the past few months I have driven around to gun shops and pawn shops buying things I want and interest me. With the exception of the $35 and $50 lowers I have been buying, I haven't paid asking price yet. I am not ballsy enough to ask for a discount on a $50 lower (yet). Dealers and pawn shops have been very flexible because guns just are not moving now. Handguns are starting to dip in price now that is how bad it is getting. If you can swing it buy all you can now. If the midterms turn out the RIGHT way, prices will hold until after Christmas. Then at the first of the year we will see prices continue to drop. I wouldn't be surprised to see $25 stripped lowers by Christmas if the midterms go the way they should.
I have bought quite a few firearms the past two months at very favorable prices from the dealers. I have noticed a shift away from buying from individuals to buying from dealers.
Sometimes paying sales tax and filling out a form is less trouble than arranging a meet and completing a deal I think.
