The AR market pretty much cratered after the last election and a bunch of smaller companies have folded. A bunch of retailers have stock 223/556 rifles well under $500 and some large volume vendors are selling complete upper/lower combos for under $300 (plus shipping and FFL fees). It seems these no frills milspec guns seem to all work, though obviously there are better available if folks feel like getting more than the basic commodity AR. I cannot see firms being profitable at much lower price points without huge volume sales. Do you think prices have found the floor or is there still room to go down?
When you hit rock bottom you need to go to AA (AR-15's Anonymous}, they will have you go through a 12 step program:
The 12 Steps are:
1. We admitted we were powerless over buying firearms
—that our lives had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a caliber greater than 5.56 could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of our firearms instructor as we understand them.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our firearms.
5. Admitted to our significant other, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact inventory of our firearms.
6. Were entirely ready to have GunsAmerica remove all these AR-15s from our gun safes.
7. Humbly asked GunsAmerica to remove our listings.
8. Made a list of all targets we had missed, and became willing to make amends to them all.
9. Made direct amends to such practice scenarios wherever possible, except when to do so would injure anyone.
10. Continued to take firearms inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it on THR.
11. Sought through practice and research to improve our conscious contact with firearms, as we understand them, practicing only for knowledge of firearms for us and the power to carry them.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these Steps, we tried to carry this message to gun control fanatics, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.