*Everything* was cheaper "a few years ago". Sure wish I could've bought all those cheap MP 40 and MG 42 parts kits I remember being advertised in the Shotgun News 10 years ago, but I was a 'starving grad student'!
Darn Baby Boomers, those guys got to have all the fun. Guys like myself (I'm 41!), and younger are left with the scraps.
Not "hating", just wish I could've been buying import-marked lugers 10 years ago before the prices went nuts. Of course, GI 1911/1911A1 prices have skyrocketed during the same timeframe. Let's not even mention what NFA firearm (machine gun) prices have done in the last 20 years... AR-15 type weapons are the only firearm types that I see as being in "the best of times" right now. I'm kinda bummed that I missed out on "the golden age" of surplus firearms, which interest me far more than do M-4 type AR-15's loaded with gizmos. I already built my Vietnam-era M16A1 clone, and my M16A2 clone like I carried when I was in the Army. But I digress....
