NEA Non-Restricted Rifle? "NEA25"

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I had money set aside for a NEA AR, until I saw a few and handled them in person, I was really disappointed as I wanted to add a Canadian AR to my various American ARs (LMT, RAA, etc)
and Norinco which have all been super reliable in adverse conditions.
After that I switched focused, now if I want a US-CDN-CHN AR family photo I will go the Colt Canada route.
 
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Brian46 said:
how does one feel satisfied paying more than the going rate for something?
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Any number of reasons...

you have a competition or hunting trip or whatever coming up and you need an item sooner to prepare better
you believe the supply is going to run out and the going rate will be higher later
you've got more cash than time and the effort you'd put into tracking down a cheaper one isn't worth the money you'd save
you believe the item is generally undervalued and the fact that you might get it cheaper somewhere else is irrelevant to you


There's all kinds of reasons that one person's assessment of value could be different than another's.
 
Lszwajda said:
Not a very good business practice to mock your customers.
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"potential Customers" is a more accurate term.

It is not like other dealers and vendors do not do the same thing in their own way. It's their loss in the end when sales suffer due to their attitude. They still may make a good number of sales, but will never know what the full potential of their product would have been because they are unable to remove that chip from their shoulder. Treating people with decency goes a long way
 
Jerry Champagne said:
So a pair of boots or a morale patch or a wanna be operator with a big half beard or perhaps poorly dressed firearms owner makes the community look bad!? Lol
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Not at all, he said low key will make life easier for a reviled minority...us. We are hostage to a very simplistic and ignorant (at best) view of our hobby/sport, and discreet is just being smart.
 
So no ones got anything more to say about this possibly crap possibly non restricted possibly AR10 that they've probably not seen?

Okay then.

I love matching my beard colour to my FDE Infidel t shirt when I'm at the range. Oops meant to say Superstore. Sandbox sandbox sandbox.
 
Patt08 said:
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This kind of stuff coming from a business irritates the hell out of me. While I somewhat agree with parts of their statement, who are they to decide what people spend their money on and how they dress lol.

I was pretty interested so I was doing some research on this rifle and came across this "rant" in the NEA Facebook page. Seems pretty lame to mock and poke fun at the people who buy their products. Bad business to alienate future customers.

All the operator gear and FDE etc that NEA ranted on isn't my scene, but I certainly could care less about anyone else that chooses to wear it.
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I read that rant too. Generally I really like NEA, their customer service and the dudes who work there but that ran seemed really strange to me. Complaining about people dressing up yet they have a number of their products pictures with people playing operator-dress up.

It says it was posted at 1:46, I wonder if that was Am and after a night of drinking. (or in my case PM and after a day of drinking)



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Brian46 said:
how does one feel satisfied paying more than the going rate for something?
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Probably because the concept of "going rate" doesn't apply to a custom gun. Your insistence that it isn't because they didn't make every part is such a rigid definition that I couldn't disagree more. I suspect any rifle that fits your definition of "custom" would be a Drilling or O/U and sell for $10,000+.

I tried to back that up and got tired reading about 3D Printed guns...apparently "in house" now means manufactured in your basement...
 
redshooter said:
Not at all, he said low key will make life easier for a reviled minority...us. We are hostage to a very simplistic and ignorant (at best) view of our hobby/sport, and discreet is just being smart.
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So hiding what we do/like is going to make it more acceptable? Or would it be beneficial to the community as a whole promote and advise and lobby. There's something fundamentally wrong with Hiding something that's completely legal it's the wrong way to go about gaining acceptance. Just saying
 
Jerry Champagne said:
So hiding what we do/like is going to make it more acceptable? Or would it be beneficial to the community as a whole promote and advise and lobby. There's something fundamentally wrong with Hiding something that's completely legal it's the wrong way to go about gaining acceptance. Just saying
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you should really post this in the multiple threads on people wanting to use discreet cases for transport.
 
redshooter said:
Probably because the concept of "going rate" doesn't apply to a custom gun.
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This thread is on a NEA built rifle which is a copy of a copy with some changes to make it go around our laws to make it NR?

If it truly was a one off custom rather than a mass production, then you would be right and the seller could dictate the price. However there would be a balancing point in price where people would have the maker build a new one to the same spec or with some of their own influence to get exactly what they want rather than buy a used gun with a mark up
 
Jerry Champagne said:
So hiding what we do/like is going to make it more acceptable? Or would it be beneficial to the community as a whole promote and advise and lobby. There's something fundamentally wrong with Hiding something that's completely legal it's the wrong way to go about gaining acceptance. Just saying
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No argument from me, on this. I hold my nose every time I share this opinion. I don't think it's right, just the way it is at this time and place.
 
Brian46 said:
This thread is on a NEA built rifle which is a copy of a copy with some changes to make it go around our laws to make it NR?

If it truly was a one off custom rather than a mass production, then you would be right and the seller could dictate the price. However there would be a balancing point in price where people would have the maker build a new one to the same spec or with some of their own influence to get exactly what they want rather than buy a used gun with a mark up
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hahahahahahah, sorry Brian, I'm confusing myself...I'll leave that unedited for entertainment purposes.
 
Reading that NEA rant actually made me like them a lot more. I've been guilty of the beard and khaki before, and I knew I was being a little ridiculous at the time. As for the modern hunter and ATRS, they're really right. NEA isn't competition for them. I lusted over the modern hunter but it was way outside of my means, so I was never actually a potential customer. I might be able to get my hands on an NEA rifle, and in my unskilled hands, the performance difference will likely become neglegible. If my situation improves financially, I would love to have both.
 
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