John,
I agree with you. What we should be focusing on is the positive! A major manufacturer has decided that there is enough demand to enter into what we all think is a crowded market already. This means S&W is confident of either lots of municipal police/government orders or lots of civilian orders. I look at it this way.....every AR in private hands is at least 1.5 votes against another assualt weapons ban. (I would divorce and disown my wife if she ever voted improperly as I suspect you all would as well. )
John, you could answer this better than anyone else; do you find most of your AR customers are repeat buyers meaning they own more than one AR already or are they first time buyers
I think this is perhaps the most important statistic to monitor.
So who is soaking up all the AR production in the US?
1. Existing AR owners like us?
2. Government/Police?
3. Military domestic/foriegn?
4. First Time buyers?
All these AR's have to be going somewhere?