This is a pipe dream and I'd believe it too if I were like 19 and just took econ I

literally just a neuron firing away from getting my point

SCARs never dropped in price

416s never dropped in price

lmao what

SCARs have absolutely dropped in price

$200 is not meaningful

Are you talking street or MSRP prices? cause 200 off of MSRP for either of those is nothing

I mean obviously competition needs to be present in the equation to drive prices down

second hand prices are also non valid because I could sell you a 416 for $1000 and that doesn't reflect the market price

but competition doesn't exist in NODs

Monopolies won’t lower prices due to demand

Look

my entire point is

pre 1990, civ market for MSR's was near 0

They'll just up the supply and keep the price

now, the civ market is massive and now there's plenty of cool shit being exclusively marketed towards civs

nods are just one of those things where a couple companies make it and have monoply

That's due to the AWB

at the moment, civ market for NVGs is near zero, and in your own words we only get scraps

Auroras are more cringe than artisan circumcision

if you grow the civ market... gee i wonder what profit-driven companies will do if the market expands

>there weren't that many ARs pre 90s

>nods are just one of those things where a couple companies make it and have monoply

no shit

hello AWB

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/215274688107118593/642603418833125386/ezgif-5-57a839c3241a.gif

Colt had a monopoly before

then other companies joined in

Thats cause their patent ended and other companies hopped on

its not that hard to make a rifle

lmao that's basic knowledge

Its difficult to make good NODs, which is what everyone wants

Yeah but just because demand goes up doesn't mean price will go down because 4 companies do all the production

Why do you think the Chinese just steal Gen 3 tubes instead of making it themselves?

If it was a competitive market, sure

@CDRCC did you seriously think other companies didn't make ARs before just because

Even the russians do this

>your argument being that demand going up will completely not affect the market and thus we may as wlel shut out the poors