Basic economics. Lack of sellers in the marketplace. How many companies are actually making lever guns? Four? (Winchester, Ruger, Henry, and Rossi.) And for two of them, lever guns are the least of what they make. Add to that the mass closing of FFLs nationwide, and the availability of lever guns just isn't there. (The closing of FFL's is going to eventually drive up the price of all guns.) This creates a shortage of supply (albeit, I suspect demand for lever guns is low compared to other designs), and that puts upward pressure on pricing. The increasing price of new lever guns will, eventually, put upward pressure on the price of used lever guns.