Why are SCARs so freaking expensive?

[joshua.neal2012]

I just don’t get it.

I mean they are awesome - they are crazy awesome. They are some of the most amazing magical gun experiences I have ever had - but the prices are just RIDICULOUS now.

And I’m not just bashing used prices on ODT - everywhere they are through the freaking roof!!!

Is there something that I am missing - like “oh FN just stopped manufacturing them”?

It wasn’t all that long ago that you could find them for like... a thousand bucks less than what they are going for now.

Has anyone actually SOLD one recently?

 

[Cadcom]

I just don’t get it.

I mean they are awesome - they are crazy awesome. They are some of the most amazing magical gun experiences I have ever had - but the prices are just RIDICULOUS now.

And I’m not just bashing used prices on ODT - everywhere they are through the freaking roof!!!

Is there something that I am missing - like “oh FN just stopped manufacturing them”?

It wasn’t all that long ago that you could find them for like... a thousand bucks less than what they are going for now.

Has anyone actually SOLD one recently?

They are cool looking rifles but what does it do that a Colt 6920 doesn’t do? Honest question.

 

[joshua.neal2012]

They are cool looking rifles but what does it do that a Colt 6920 doesn’t do? Honest question.

I mean, I know they run cleaner, and I know they are tack drivers - so it’s not like “why are they pricey?”

It’s “now when we all have guns and Hill-dawg isn’t coming to steal them yet... why are they 50% more than two years ago?”

It’s not so much the starting price that baffles me - it’s that the prices seem to be climbing like they are a Colt Python or Anaconda

 

[Justin87]

For people trying to buy skill

 

[Cadcom]

I guess it’s similar to my M1a’s. I had to have one and paid a premium. But I love to shoot it, will never get my money back out of it but had to have it.

 

[joshua.neal2012]

Like - this is not calling the quality of the gun into question...

I have shot a few of the 17s and it has been a borderline spiritual experience...

This is more about the economics of them.

I get that Colt pythons are skyrocketing - they stopped making them. I understand how 65 corvettes are getting more expensive.

I don’t understand why a 2014 mustang was $40,000 and is now $50,000 - because that sure is what SCARs seem to be doing.

 

[jaywalker456]

I can see the point to buying a 17 but not a 16, you can buy a piston driven AR15 for half the price and the performance will be about the same.

 

[CBH13]

yah i'd buy a bren with an acr adapter first

 

[Lionheart]

They are cool looking rifles but what does it do that a Colt 6920 doesn’t do? Honest question.

Well for one thing they shoot a 308 cal bullet, not.556. Price a quality AR10 and then compare to SCAR.

p.s. I got one and it's NFS.

 

[paliknight]

For people trying to buy skill

Just like our special operations and delta guys