You are talking primarily about the used resale of limited items, or the military surplus market. Apples and oranges when it comes to commercially available stock items such as the B+T lineup. When it comes to those items, it IS definitely the firearms community that is driving up the prices by demanding and paying such inflated prices for run-of-the-mill surplus like SKS rifles. Likewise, the owners of used, non-OIC semi-automatic rifles and carbines are the ones setting the ludicrously high prices for their "treasure", and it is others who are willing to pay those exorbitant prices - hence the "new normal" pricing benchmarks.