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Posted: 11/24/2004 1:03:54 PM EDT
| A local shop just got a shipment of 6520, 6721 and 6920 model AR15's. Is the overall availability of these improving nationwide or is this still a rarity nowadays? |
Except when you can find one for under $1000.  You want to know how? Shop around and be patient. |
| I bought my NIB 6920 one week before the sunset for $950 shipped. I took a chance, gambled that the ban would indeed die, and I suppose I got a good deal out of it. A few days later the Colt LEO craze was on in full force. It's still NIB and I wouldn't sell it for $1500 now. |
I have a couple NIB LE6721 for $1500 each shipped. Every dealer that had them around me is out and don't know if they're going to get them in again.
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After the new year the availability of Colt LE rifles particularly the 6920 is going to be even more scarce than they are now. Colt is slowly sniffing out the dealers whom are circumventing the LE letterhead policy. If you are wanting an LE 6920 and you still do not have one by 1-1-05 .... be prepared to wait a long time or pay. |
Oh, they are out there waiting to be found by the patient hunter! $1,500 is way to the high side unless you can afford to wipe your ass with $100 bills. Your average dealer is paying around $950 for the 6921 and a wee bit less for the other models. Anything above that is his markup. If your dealer cares about you and your repeat business he's not going to mark it up more than $100-$150 dollars. If you've been patronizing a shop for a long time and they want to get you for $1100 or more, I suggest you move your business elsewhere. Yes, Colt is cracking down on letterheads, but non LE dealers don't fall in that catagory and can still obtain them. But the worth of something is whatever someone is willing to pay, so spend $X,XXX if you have it and help fuel the economy |
I don't think that is correct. My local FFL(class III BTW, but not a Colt LEO dealer) tried to order a 6920 for me and a 6450 for himself. Colt said "no way" and he had to order his through Styer Aug in the EE. I don't think Colt is selling LEO models through commercial dealers. ETA: Fountain Firearms offered to get me one for $1800 OTD.  no thanks 
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| The 6721 is in stock and selling for $1299 new in box at the dealer nearby me. They also have excellent used 6520's in stock for $999 as well as a couple 6920's on hand for $1149. It seems that the prices online were rising at a more rapid rate a couple weeks back, but now leveling off on the 6450, 6520, and 6721. The only model that still seems to be rising pricewise are the 6920's. I wonder why... |
| One of the reason the prices are going up is because Colt pricing was for LEO and when Colt found out dealers were selling them to the public they raised the prices on them unless it was bought with a department letterhead. They are quickly drying up and they are not going to get cheaper. Bushmaster is going to raise their prices after the first of the year too. |
| That's right they are a buisness.....a buisness that almost got sued out of existance. The don't have plans for the public and that's fine. Niether does Trijicon or Knight's Armament. It still makes me laugh at the people crying that prices of new ARs didn't fall to $700. It's not 1988 anymore, god luck what a cup of coffee sells for now. |
I bought three in the North-East area of Pa. all for less than $1,000.00 actually 2 of them less than $900.00, its not Colt that raising prices, its the dealers that get the guns. The prices have remained constant throughout the end of the ban. I've noticed that there haven't been alot of guns sold, mine range in serial from mid-1700 to mid 1800 indicating only 1k have been produced since the ban ended. What part of Pa. are you from? |
| How the hell do you stay in buisness by only charging $20 over cost ? I have never seen a LE6920 below $1035 and that was a pre sunset order. This week I've sold a NIB LE6721 for $1500 and I'm working on a deal to sell another one. All I did was ask a price and someone paid. |
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My LE6920 cost $954; I ordered it 2 weeks after the ban expired and received it 2 weeks ago today. Do I believe I can place an order for another one and take delivery before things shut down? I'm not willing to place that bet - my dealer hasn't come out and said so but I get the feeling it's getting tougher to get these. I'm most likely wrong - this is often the case when I have a hunch  - so don't base any decisions on my say-so alone.
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Then you don't know too many good dealers.. I paid $775 for a Bushmaster LE M4A3 and $885 for a Colt LE6920 the week of the sunset. I could have gotten another LE6920 NIB for $900 a couple of weeks ago but I passed, I'm pretty sure I could still get one for that price now with little wait if I wanted it. Pays to shop around 
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| There is a dealer in S.E. P.A. (Target Master) and they are a Colt Distrbutor for commercial and law enforcement. Before the ban ended you didn't see any LEO rifles on display. Once the ban ended they had about 50 on display, that lasted about a week before they all sold. The next week they got a visit from a Colt rep and were told if they kept selling LEO marked rifles to the public they were going to lose them. |
| nope no 6920 he had 3 total all sold that day two pencil barrel models and one 6721. I just got lucky walked asked him hey my B-day coming up got anything good. Well my CC was at zero. Put a M2aimpoint on it this moring using ARMS mounts all went well, expect for the cold rain and sleet only did 40 rounds. |
Sorry he'll only sell them locally in a FTF in the shop with locals, he's not looking for internet advertising or to bring any attention to his contacts to get the rifles, most of the distributors want letters to get the guns. This is their safeguard that the guns stay to LE only and not the civilian population.(Also why everyone is making so much money on them) |
Good for you! I could buy a bunch and do the same, but playing on the fears of my AR15 brothers and jacking the price up $400 wouldn't sit right with me. If you can get your price, that's fine. That's what capitalism is all about, but stop trying to justify what's is going on here. The price gouging is rooted in greed, not necessity. There is no other justification for what dealers are doing. I'm tempted to buy up everything I find and sell it for $100 over my cost (only for my time and trouble) just to keep them out of the hands of opportunists. What really kills me is people doing this to fellow AR15 members. I've always had a fair price and good service on the items I've purchased from this site and try to do the same when I sell things here. That's what AR15.com is supposed to be about. Maybe I'm just an idealist. So be it! |
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