I've been AK47 shopping this last few weeks and it's not looking good at all.

I always intended to and a nice stamped AK but the price just keeps ticking up. I remember around 2008 when the $500 SGL21 were around. The guy at work said to go ahead and buy one of I was thinking about it. I decided to wait a couple weeks and by the time I was ready to buy one the price hand gone up $50. And since then it has just kept going up on all of them it seems. So now here I am looking at well over $1K for firearms that I saw selling for $300-$500.

The oddest thing about it is that the cheap AKs have gotten way more expensive. The price on the expensive AKs went up not by as much.