It's not Colt branded AR-15's most people are buying. It's the AR-15 platform that allows people to build a decent AR-15 for 300 bucks that is making them so prolific.
I keep hearing $300, where? This does not seem to exist outside of airsoft...
Prices have been slowly creeping back up over the last few months, but the usual suspects are companies like Palmetto State Armory (who recently had a $280 kit before shipping, tax and transfer fees) and Del-Ton.
Buy an anderson lower and a cheap steel barrel palmetto arms upper. Getting it below $300 can usually only be done when parts go on sale, but it can be done.
Thats kinda my point, its not a gun, its parts.
You can't walk into a store with $300 bucks and walk out with a useful thing.
Palmetto State Armory is specifically what I was referencing, but last time I looked was also 3 years ago
No one said it was. This is Colt saying that the cheaper ones are in such high supply that their expensive ones are not worth producing for civilians.
Fair point. I was mostly anticipating people's reaction to it thinking people would correlate it with noticeably less AR-15's.