Machine Guns as an Investment medium

For those for you who don’t know, the legality of fully automatic firearms in the US is kind of peculiar. Under federal law (state laws vary) machine guns can be legally bought, sold, and owned by civilians relatively freely (there’s a $200.00 tax you have to pay to the when you buy it but that’s pretty much it). However, you can only buy, sell, and own machine guns that were registered with the government prior to 1986.
This “closing of the registry” has essentially created a fixed number of machine guns available to civilians in the US, restricting supply. Demand has increased over the years and, with supply restricted, the price of all legal machine guns has skyrocketed. A transferable M16, which may have sold for $800.00 in 1980, is now, at MINIMUM, $20,000.00. That’s a 2,500% increase, FAR outpacing inflation. Furthermore, being so expensive, machine guns have essentially become luxury items, meaning their price of seems to be entirely independent of external markets. Even with Coronachan and friends ravaging the economy machine guns are still selling for tens of thousands of dollars. Even the cheapest machine guns available (shitty stamped metal mac-10s that would have sold for $200.00 in the 80s) are 7-8 grand, when just 5 years ago they were no more than 5 grand.
In addition, machine guns are a tangible mechanical commodity, meaning as time continues they’re bound to break and wear out with use, further restricting supply and raising the price. Moreover, US federal firearms law doesn’t look like it’s going to be relaxed anytime soon, meaning the machine gun registry is probably going to stay closed far into the foreseeable future.
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Seeing as how there’s almost a guaranteed return regardless of the greater economy and the fact that, come time to sell, the buyers pool might be limited, how risky do you think a machine gun would be as a long term investment if I just bought one, insured it, and put it in a safe for 10-20 years?
Added bonus: if shit goes absolutely tits up you have a machine gun.
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You have to consider liquidity, and the fact machine guns are collectors items with no intrinsic value, like art, but for trashy people. You essentially are putting a lot at risk for uncertain reward. Not a bad idea if you're mega rich and trying to diversify with moonshots (like people who invest in art), but its probably worth it to keep your money in something more liquid and intrinsically valued, like stocks or whatever, since I'm betting you're not that wealthy and buying a 30k rifle is a big chunk of your net worth.

>the fact machine guns are collectors items with no intrinsic value, like art, but for trashy people
I don't know if I agree. The value in a machine gun comes from the fact that's a machine you cannot legally buy anymore, whereas the value of art comes from subjective aesthetic considerations. If a machine gun doesn't have intrinsic value does a antique car not have intrinsic value? What about an antique watch?

Given that machine guns are a human right and the courts are swinging back to the right to recognize this, it'd be foolish to invest in such guns. Like buying a taxi medallion in 2015.

Just buy semi-autos low during non election years and sell high during election years.

Or be the first guy to sell Pepe themed gun accessories (such as butt cushions with waifus on them) to horrify normies

I wouldn't unless you go super short term. Guns will be gone in 15 years tops and I doubt even NFA items will be spared. If you do though I'd probably go with some AR because machine gun AR lowers will almost certainly be desireable to both collectors and people who want to use it to make a modern upper full auto.

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Can’t shoot a basqiaut you globalist cock sucker

Hell yeah - only mistake is not doing it sooner.

is it allowed to recycle machine guns?

Yeah except a machine gun shoots bullets you retard

Correct, collectors items, generally defined by scarce things which are all items you can no longer buy anymore (legally or illegal) don't have intrinsic values. That's why they're collectors items. Stock, real estate, etc has intrinsic value since they are useful for something, and as you said the value for collectors items (guns, watches, cars, paintings, etc) only comes from subjective aesthetic considerations.