America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Engineering Mystery

Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by DuskStar on Friday May 03, 2019 @08:44PM (#19823503)

It doesn't help that a lot of the "fun shit" is restricted to those older guns, since they've been grandfathered in during the US's various prunings of gun rights. So a 50 year old gun might be legitimately superior to one manufactured this year, which causes all manner of weirdness.

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Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by wl on Friday May 03, 2019 @09:11PM (#19823623)

What kind of "fun shit" are you thinking of? Select fire is rare and expensive. Open bolt semiautomatics? Eh, some people are into collecting such things, but closed bolts are just as fun to shoot. Just about the only somewhat reasonably priced grandfathered "fun shit" are pistols that can take stocks and not be NFA SBRs.

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Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by DuskStar on Friday May 03, 2019 @10:52PM (#19824069)

Select fire is rare and expensive for legislative, not practical, reasons. And it is VERY fun, if not particularly useful. It's a large part of what I was thinking of.

Why would the price matter?

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Re:America’s Oldest Gun Maker Went Bankrupt: A Financial Eng... by wl on Saturday May 04, 2019 @12:36AM (#19824484)

If we're having a discussion about long-lived firearms having an effect on the market for new firearms, select fire is so rare (175,997 pre-86 transferrable as of February 2016[0]) as to be irrelevant.

[0] https://www.nfatca.org/pubs/MG_Count_FOIA_2016.pdf

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