Machine Gun Price Guides

Price Guides last updated: July 2010

Where do the prices come from?

Price data comes from many different sources and is a combination of both asking and selling price from Internet boards, many dealer web sites and table displays from gun shows throughout the country. Selling prices are actual sales from web auction sites, nationwide live auctions and sales from machine gun dealers. Many dealers provide sale prices, knowing it's easier to sell to informed buyers.

The debate over asking/selling price is legendary and goes on and on . The usefulness of these charts is they show an average within a range of values and the historical trends in value. As the number of samples increases, the average becomes more useful, so popular models like MACS, Uzis, M16s are well represented in value while a M240B may not be. Next is the condition/price debate and that also is built into the high/low window around the average. But to be more than a little blunt, condition variations on a $500 hunk of steel selling for $10,000 are not as significant as a $250 Kel-Tec P3AT handgun. We wouldn’t be the first to say that you’re buying the paper (NFRTR registration) and the gun comes with it. Many C&R guns can be priced differently because historic originality and condition can be very important, but even that usually represents the last 15-20% of price. For some self-proclaimed experts this debate rages ad nauseum and these results will never satisfy their myopic pea-brains.

Finally, there are some sellers that excessively overprice and their items appear month-to-month until either the market catches up to them or they lower their price. This ragged economy makes dealing more of a possibility and being persistent by holding to your purchase price could land a good deal. But there are only about 600-700 automatic weapons available for sale in the US at any given time, so significant price dealing is difficult. The days when an item’s asking price is increased month-to-month when it doesn’t sell may be gone, but it still a classic supply constrained market.

Our favorite example of price logic appeared on an Internet board this century. When a poster asked what was the best price to ask for a 9mm MAC11, someone replied, “$2,500 will get it sold now, $3,000 will get it sold sometime and $3,500 will let everyone know you own it.” YMMV

Price Guides last updated through July 2010


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