In 2013, people were buying ARs at inflated prices for investment. One of my best friends had a $1200 offer sight-unseen through a third party for a homebuild AR not worth $600. It was only ARs--and thus done as a collectors' effort, not a preparatory one--as is evidenced by how AKs, other AWs (legal term), and other arms were decidedly NOT subjected to the same race to buy. The funny part, and I said this at the time, is that the legislation being feared then would have made their collected items worthless, save for Fair Market Value, and only transferrable to the government (no collector sales, no trades, no inheritance). Those people buying were the arrogant stern-voiced know-it-alls too stupid to pay attention and realize it wasn't like the 1994 ban. Had it passed--and I suspect they hoped it would--they'd have had their financial asses handed to them. And I would have laughed. Today, people are in some cases smarter, as the buying rush includes non-AWs. Some folks are...