Nick Dooley

Right now, if I was going to buy one, I'd probably lean towards Mitchell Defense just because the time I've had behind them and stuff like that, they are a boutique rifle that is amazing, and it doesn't have that Daniel Defense name behind it, but that's kind of irrelevant.

Daniel Defense, again, fine rifles, but they're not the be-all, end-all.

We've talked ad nauseum on this show before about how, you know, the DI, you know, direct impingement gas system on an AR-15 is not a hard machine to make run.

No.

It's like, okay.

Yep.

Like the, actually the other than a, other than an FN or Colt, depending upon which time I was, what timeframe you were talking about in my, my career, um,

Yeah.

It's, it comes down to the, you know, are the, some of the parts greater than the, you know, the, the pole.

That's not exactly true.

You're seeing a lot of it, but you're seeing a lot more people move in.

Now you're seeing a lot more people move into that $1,500 space because a lot of guys went out and during all the panic buys or all of that stuff from political events, they bought the, I need an AR, so they grabbed that

Palmetto State Armory, they went to PSA, got on the website, and like, oh, okay, yep, I got the Freedom Rifle for $4.99.

And then now they're like, okay, I have it.

Because there's a lot of guys who aren't the builders and doing that stuff.

Like you, Garth, you're not going to go through and be swapping parts.

You're like, oh, I'm just going to buy one.

And that's why you're seeing PSA do the Sabre line.

Why you're seeing a lot of companies run kind of two tiers.

of what they're doing for their production lines because they'll have the okay this is the entry level and then they'll move on from there and get the okay now we're into the upper level or if you watch some of the Facebook groups it doesn't matter because unless you have a Noveske or you know but I can go buy those lowers and then