when did you buy your first AR

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Posted: 2/8/2016 9:49:53 PM EDT

2007 for me, 1978 Colt SP1 that I paid for on my second deployment and picked up at my Grandpa's LGS in PA when I got home to the states that fall

What about the rest of you guys?

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:50:50 PM EDT

[#1]

2013 I think. Was not my first gun.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:51:53 PM EDT

[#2]

2012, three months before obamas re-election for my 19th birthday.

ETA: it was a gen1 stag arms model 3. Payed a bit more than o should have for it brand new, and it came with the non free floated diamond head rail.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:52:09 PM EDT

[#3]

2001 Bushmaster XM-15E2 with Mini-Y Comp

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:52:27 PM EDT

[#4]

2009 Cabelas, I paid way too much.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:52:54 PM EDT

[#5]

I bought a stripped lower in 2008. It took over a year to turn it into a complete rifle.

I've never purchased a complete AR-15.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:53:04 PM EDT

[#6]

some pics of it

wife unit shooting it this past summer

me shooting it a few winters ago

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:53:47 PM EDT

[#7]

1978.

SP1.

$356.00

On double Green Stamp day.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:55:23 PM EDT

[#8]

Jan. 2005 I bought an A2 style M4gery Bushmaster. Still have it.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:55:36 PM EDT

[#9]

A couple hours after i registered here. Came here to do research but couldn't get any useful info out of the search feature. Went to a gun show and came home with a m&p15 for 750.00. Its not the sport model as it came with forward assist.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:56:27 PM EDT

[#10]

About 18 months ago, not long after I joined this site.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:56:46 PM EDT

[#11]

2015 when parts stsrted getting really cheap.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:57:22 PM EDT

[#12]

2007, Bushmaster O.R.C.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:57:50 PM EDT

[#13]

... 1979. SP1. Still have a pic of the with holding it and an FN/FNC folder

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:58:04 PM EDT

[#14]

2000 or 2001, whenever the BM Varminters first came out.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:58:11 PM EDT

[#15]

Late summer 2012 when I could finally afford one.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:58:30 PM EDT

[#16]

2007 DPMS spotter sold it six months later after catching a piece of hot brass between my jacket and neck and got a Bushmaster xm15. After that I caught the BRD bad and it has been down hill since.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:59:10 PM EDT

[#17]

Valentine's Day 2007.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:59:10 PM EDT

[#18]

I built one sometime around 2007-2008. I still have it but have several more now.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:59:22 PM EDT

[#19]

Colt Sporter SP1 16" with aluminum 2 pos. stock.

1992ish for $800 used, out the door.

Still have it.

Chris

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:59:27 PM EDT

[#20]

Shortly after the Clinton ban. Had a bit of a hard time finding one, pounced an HB Bushmaster in spring of 2005 for (IIRC) $750.

Posted: 2/8/2016 9:59:50 PM EDT

[#21]

2006 RRA Entry Tactical

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:00:38 PM EDT

[#22]

2009

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:00:56 PM EDT

[#23]

If I remember right it was 2000.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:01:01 PM EDT

[#24]

2009 bargain bin CMMG. Paid 550 I think

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:01:06 PM EDT

[#25]

2002 I think? It was my first gun. 20 inch Bushmaster A2 with that god awful mini-y comp.

It was like $800-850.. I forget.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:01:08 PM EDT

[#26]

boot leave after boot camp in 2010.
First gun I bought myself, it was a Bushmaster actually.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:01:11 PM EDT

[#27]

2004 I bought a stripped lower and after the AWB sunset a friend of mine built me a basic AR, it shot well but I sold it a year or so later. I then got back into the AR world around 2006 and have been addicted since.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:01:13 PM EDT

[#28]

Quote History

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... 1979. SP1. Still have a pic of the with holding it and an FN/FNC folder

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See my post above.

Used my SP1 to shoot my qual course for my M1 from the old DCM.

$165 delivered.

Some days, it's great to be old!

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:01:14 PM EDT

[#29]

2005. Still have it. My trusty little Spike's ST15 has gone through so many evolutions; from 16" CAR too 16" Middy to 14.5" Middy (with perm attached ST Compressor), then eventually registered and now is my 10.5"/11.5" /14.5" "Jack of All Trades" rifle.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:01:14 PM EDT

[#30]

1999. Neutered Bushmaster XM15.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:01:26 PM EDT

[#31]

1985. An A1 with triangle stock. From a surplus kit and a lower from who knows where. The butt still had numbers stenciled on it.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:02:03 PM EDT

[#32]

2008

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:02:08 PM EDT

[#33]

1993. Colt that has long since been sold.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:02:09 PM EDT

[#34]

'98 or '99, I forget.
A Bushmaster Dissipator. I put triangular hand guards on it.
I sold it eventually because it didn't have a flash suppressor.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:02:16 PM EDT

[#35]

July 1994. I was 22 at the time and swept up in the panic buying before the AWB went into effect. It was an old Palmetto Armory billet lower with a Colt SP1 carbine upper. Think I paid $950 for it.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:02:19 PM EDT

[#36]

Bought some stripped lowers and built my first. Circa 2004.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:02:22 PM EDT

[#37]

AR - 10/24/2002 (the day they caught the DC snipers)

AK - 2/1/2003 (the day of the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster)

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:03:04 PM EDT

[#38]

Colt Sporter Target HBAR on Oahu, HI in 1991 when I was stationed there in the Army. $600.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:03:51 PM EDT

[#39]

Late 90's , colt 6600 hbar with a no fence lower. Used preban a steal at the time for $600 private sale. Sold it during hard times

later got a bushmaster dcm, damn that gun would shoot. Pimped it out delta style . Heavy as fuck , rebuilt it as a carbine pre ban style during the ban ,naughty me. Still have it, and others. Thank god for the sunset.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:04:25 PM EDT

[#40]

I always had AK's first

. I think it was 2003 is when i bought mine.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:04:30 PM EDT

[#41]

Colt le6920 in the summer of 2012, right before I joined this site.

Still my only AR but I love it.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:05:11 PM EDT

[#42]

Right after the end of the AWB. June of 2005.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:05:29 PM EDT

[#43]

2013, started with AKs a few years earlier.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:05:39 PM EDT

[#44]

2005, Bushmaster 16" HBAR flat top.

Barrel did not last long

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:06:43 PM EDT

[#45]

2003 a week after moving from California to Nevada. It was during the ban so it was a post ban one, Rock River arms, Still have the lower, sold off the upper once the ban expired and got the correct non ban upper :)

Since then, I have either built or bought many many more.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:06:57 PM EDT

[#46]

'92 or '93

Bushmaster - way back before they went to shit with Cerberus.

Posted: 2/8/2016 10:07:19 PM EDT

[#47]

My dad gave me my first AR in 2002 when I was 10. Bought/built my first in 2012 just a couple months before Sandy Hook. Joined here about that same time.

Eta bought an AR 10 in 2011.