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Posted: 3/21/2018 6:37:18 PM EDT
Looked at some FN FNC mg's today...
 Pretty sure I looked at these a couple years ago and they were around $8,000. The asking price is now almost $20k.  Sky is the limit on MG's, not meant for normal peons.
Guess if I ever want an MG I'll have to go the FFL/SOT route. |
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Posted: 3/21/2018 6:50:21 PM EDT
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Saw one posted on Strum the other day for around 16k. Supply and demand.. there's only one way for prices to go..
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Posted: 3/21/2018 7:45:04 PM EDT
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Take that 20K and a little more $$$ and buy AR15 conversion. Parts are plenty.
Parts for FN FNC is harder to find and more expensive. |
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Posted: 3/21/2018 7:47:47 PM EDT
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Sellers will always ask crazy prices. You have to look at what they're actually selling for.
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Posted: 3/21/2018 8:03:27 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: Take that 20K and a little more $$$ and buy AR15 conversion. Parts are plenty. Parts for FN FNC is harder to find and more expensive. |
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Posted: 3/21/2018 8:44:29 PM EDT
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15-17K seems to be the going price these days.
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Posted: 3/21/2018 9:09:22 PM EDT
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I don't think any are moving at $20K.
Ruben has a whole pile of FNCs S&H sear guns on his site for $15,495 and $15,995. Ruben is the gold standard in terms of pricing model, so just about anybody else should be selling for less. For reference, there was a FNC (HTA RR) in the Julia auction today that went for $13.5 ($16K after 18% buyers premium) I have never understood why somebody will go to an auction in the middle of fucking nowhere Maine to spend $16,000 on an Hard Times Armory RR conversion FNC, when they could get a better FNC done by Curtis Higgins from Ruben for $500 less by just picking up the phone. |
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Posted: 3/21/2018 9:59:29 PM EDT
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Quoted:
Looked at some FN FNC mg's today... Pretty sure I looked at these a couple years ago and they were around $8,000. The asking price is now almost $20k. Sky is the limit on MG's, not meant for normal peons.
Guess if I ever want an MG I'll have to go the FFL/SOT route. Pays to shop around, Ruben has several for around $15K and takes forever to sell them. I do not think being an FFL/SOT is going to get you a FNC any cheaper. eta or I could have read whole thread and posted, "^ what he said" |
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Posted: 3/21/2018 10:39:51 PM EDT
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FNCs are selling in the $12-15k range
$20k is someone hoping they will get lucky and be able to trade their FNC in for a M16. But there is no limit to the price of MGs, especially during a strong economy, people have lots of disposable income to toss around. |
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Posted: 3/21/2018 10:55:56 PM EDT
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They are overpriced, when compared to the going rate for a RR m16.
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Posted: 3/21/2018 10:59:47 PM EDT
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I messed up on not buying a sear when they were cheap
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Posted: 3/21/2018 11:31:19 PM EDT
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I might have $6,000 into mine and I got it about 4 or 5 years ago.
I had bought an m11/9 for 2900 and I traded it for a sear. I had bought the FNC for 1800.00 a few years before. 3 round burst and sear instal was less than 1000.00. |
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Posted: 3/22/2018 11:25:11 PM EDT
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Frank listed 3 sears today for $12 each.
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Posted: 3/23/2018 9:54:50 AM EDT
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Quoted:
Looked at some FN FNC mg's today... Pretty sure I looked at these a couple years ago and they were around $8,000. The asking price is now almost $20k. Sky is the limit on MG's, not meant for normal peons.
Guess if I ever want an MG I'll have to go the FFL/SOT route. Or you can go the transferable route with say a M11/9 + Lage Max11/15 + Max-11k which will run you about $11k total and gives you pistol and rifle caliber options. Options A gives you more variety but youre just tossing money down the crapper. Option B has a lot more up front cost and less variety but the MG will likely appreciate in value. |
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Posted: 3/23/2018 10:04:17 AM EDT
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Have y'all seen a post sample FNC offered? Factory select-fire? The only FNCs I ever see for sale are sear conversions.
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Posted: 3/23/2018 10:12:33 AM EDT
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There are more registered FNC sears than actual rifles, that’s the biggest issue. If even someone like Century would import parts kits and cobble something together with a halfway serviceable barrel, the whole FNC game would change.
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Posted: 3/23/2018 10:27:29 AM EDT
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Wikipedia says Indonesia's Pindad SS1 family (licensed FNC copy) is being phased out and replaced by the SS2 family.
 Attached FileWhat are current import conditions from Indonesia? Could Century do it? Are any other forces retiring their FNCs? |
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Posted: 3/23/2018 1:45:48 PM EDT
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OP is wrong.
If anything they have been very slow to appreciate and only in the last 5 years have moved up. The sears went from a steady $3K to $10-12K now. Still a deal at 15-17K all in. Other machine guns have appreciated MUCH more in that time. My FNC always runs....my Colt M16 and POS M11 I cannot say that about. |
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Posted: 3/24/2018 1:01:51 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Have y'all seen a post sample FNC offered? Factory select-fire? The only FNCs I ever see for sale are sear conversions. Maybe 10 years ago there seemed to be a couple pre-sample CALs for constantly coming back up for sale. |
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Posted: 3/25/2018 10:17:55 PM EDT
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The sears went from a steady $3K to $10-12K now. Still a deal at 15-17K all in. |
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Posted: 3/26/2018 1:54:08 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Wikipedia says Indonesia's Pindad SS1 family (licensed FNC copy) is being phased out and replaced by the SS2 family. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/SS1-V1.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/13082/Indonesia_SS1_family-490934.JPG What are current import conditions from Indonesia? Could Century do it? Are any other forces retiring their FNCs? |
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Posted: 3/26/2018 3:45:29 PM EDT
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Yeah they’d nuts. M16 prices seem to have stagnated for like 24 months, but FNCs have gone mad. For the little bit extra, I’ll take the converted AR15
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Posted: 3/29/2018 12:39:42 AM EDT
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Yeah, just keep waiting. Keep looking back on "what they were selling for in xxxx". By the time you get off the fence, today's prices will be the ones people are reminiscing about.
Maybe even adding new things to remember like: "Remember when you could actually transfer NFA items? Boy, I wish I would have cashed in my retirement/sold my fancy truck and bought some when I had the chance." Remember, today is always tomorrow's "good 'ol days". |
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Posted: 3/29/2018 1:08:20 AM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
I messed up on not buying a sear when they were cheap http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v95/coldair/FN/5539de28-a699-47a3-a24d-2ca0ea85926e_zpssmguemr3.jpg 
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Posted: 3/30/2018 9:25:06 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Have y'all seen a post sample FNC offered? Factory select-fire? The only FNCs I ever see for sale are sear conversions. |
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Posted: 3/30/2018 9:26:28 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
Wikipedia says Indonesia's Pindad SS1 family (licensed FNC copy) is being phased out and replaced by the SS2 family. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/SS1-V1.jpg https://www.AR15.Com/media/mediaFiles/13082/Indonesia_SS1_family-490934.JPG What are current import conditions from Indonesia? Could Century do it? Are any other forces retiring their FNCs? |
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Posted: 3/31/2018 12:41:49 AM EDT
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more sears than hosts was a myth... mid 3k serial number is about the highest seen. there are 6k FNCs originally imported.
FNCs run like a top and not much really breaks. I would guess most sell for $15k or less. Wasn't too long ago a sear was offered for $8k and sat around a while at that. I think you are seeing the MG market consolidate and basically everyone who is in the market as a serious collector will have a M16 of one kind or another in the collection. However, there are far fewer FNCs out there. And if you are a serious collector, you need at least one quasi modern Euro machine gun and its a pretty thin list out there. And only one is an FN in 5.56. |
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Posted: 3/31/2018 7:45:46 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
more sears than hosts was a myth... mid 3k serial number is about the highest seen. there are 6k FNCs originally imported. FNCs run like a top and not much really breaks. I would guess most sell for $15k or less. Wasn't too long ago a sear was offered for $8k and sat around a while at that. I think you are seeing the MG market consolidate and basically everyone who is in the market as a serious collector will have a M16 of one kind or another in the collection. However, there are far fewer FNCs out there. And if you are a serious collector, you need at least one quasi modern Euro machine gun and its a pretty thin list out there. And only one is an FN in 5.56. |
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Posted: 3/31/2018 7:51:04 PM EDT
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Just get a "full semi-auto"
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