{"id":3669,"date":"2014-08-06T12:51:29","date_gmt":"2014-08-06T17:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3669"},"modified":"2014-08-06T12:51:29","modified_gmt":"2014-08-06T17:51:29","slug":"gun-porn-suddenly-more-valuable-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/?p=3669","title":{"rendered":"Gun Porn: Suddenly More Valuable Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_4507.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3670\" src=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_4507-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4507\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_4542.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3672\" src=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_4542-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4542\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_4544.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3673\" src=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_4544-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4544\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_4545.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-3671\" src=\"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/IMG_4545-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4545\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The prices for the Saiga 12 went up over $800 during the 2013 panic. I believe they were around $600 before that for the unconverted* ones. When ARs and AKs fell back down, Saiga 12s didn&#8217;t because there was a rumor that they were going to be classified as destructive devices. That didn&#8217;t pan out either, but a couple of weeks ago President Obama made it illegal for an American company to do business with the company that produces Saigas.<\/p>\n<p>Prices have <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=99af708eada6db38db68d5fa4a9aa632&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.gunbroker.com%2FAll%2FBI.aspx%3FKeywords%3Dsaiga%2B12\">increased somewhat<\/a>. It&#8217;s telling that <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=99af708eada6db38db68d5fa4a9aa632&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.brownells.com%2Fmagazines%2Fshotgun-magazines%2Fmagazines%2Fsaiga-12-drum-magazine-prod44977.aspx\">Pro Mag 20 round drums<\/a> cost less from Brownell&#8217;s than they&#8217;re selling for used on Gunbroker.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m told the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B000W8FOME\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=B000W8FOME&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=gucaante-20&#038;linkId=MUQ5SV37HKDO5K4A\">LimbSaver<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=gucaante-20&#038;l=as2&#038;o=1&#038;a=B000W8FOME\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> is helpful if you&#8217;ve also got the drum mags \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>*Unconverted meaning not converted back to their original factory condition. So maybe unconverted is the wrong word. GCA68 required them to be converted to a &#8220;sporting purposes&#8221; condition, meaning without the scary pistol grip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The prices for the Saiga 12 went up over $800 during the 2013 panic. I believe they were around $600 before that for the unconverted* ones. When ARs and AKs fell back down, Saiga 12s didn&#8217;t because there was a rumor that they were going to be classified as destructive devices. That didn&#8217;t pan out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gunscarstech.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}