Decent ARs used to be super cheap. Not as much right now.
Went to a gunshow the other day. This is very accurate.
Entry-ARs of the S&W, Sig, or Palmetto State variety are 400 or 500 dollars more expensive than they were before Wuhan flu. I haven't actually juggled numbers, but I'm 90% sure that someone is better off from a price-inflated to quality standpoint buying a serious, 1500-dollar AR nowadays for only a little more than they used to go for rather than paying so much more for less gun.
Also true of the generic polymer striker pistols as well. My God. M&P have become ~$500 guns. PrinCZess remembers specials on them making it be around 300 or maybe even less (I am beginning to doubt my sanity).
SKS have become collecting material too by what I saw. Cheapest Yugo was at $600, and others floated around the 700-800 mark...and the same thing is happening to, of all things, Mosins. ~450 was a pretty average price, despite there being lots of the things around for sale.
Buck a pop .223 and .90 per for 9mm...Magazines starting to crawl up in price...About the only thing that seemed to be consistent was the price for standard bolt guns that weren't milsurp (though I can't say for sure because I haven't paid as much attention there and they're always less advertised than the entry-ARs).
So, to sum up the status of US firearms market and community: Everything is horrible and I hate it.
Let's see if that goes to the Supreme Court.
My lack of legal-eagle-ittude is going to clearly show, but if SCOTUS declines to hear it the district court decision stands nationwide, correct? Or does it only stand for that district?
Assuming national effect, it might be one where SCOTUS punting is a positive end, since I can easily imagine Roberts waffling out if it actually went to the black-robes voting it out.