How much do you think the price of ARs and AKs would go up? I'd imagine they would increase in value if he won after he made that comment about the assault weapons ban in the debate last month.
I think just about everyone who loves them already has their own AK-47 and AR-15 if not several. They come in several styles you know, long barrel, short barrel etc. For the past 4 years they have already been buying them up like crazy. The supply is in such excess now that it may turn out to be just like the real estate bubble back in 2008 finally when it burst.
I doubt they would be worth very much if you are trying to corner the market.
I would stick to gold and silver if you are trying to make a buck on arbitrage.
If you ever have to bug out of Virginia and head for the mountains, you can't carry a whole gunlocker full. One handgun and one rifle is about all you can carry, maybe a shotgun in a scabbard too. Backpack. 3 day supply. Water. Tent. Sleeping bag. Ammo.
Doomsday Preppers is starting a new season, so they should be interviewing all sorts of new preppers on it. You might want to get some other supplies too. Just in case.
Plus if you think there is actually going to be an assault weapons ban, such as both Romney and Obama have said they each believe in personally, then you must be betting that the DNC will capture the US House too, and that it would be the end of Boehner, Lordy sakes alive, wouldn't that be great, but nobody thinks that is going to happen.
And even if it did, the US Supreme Court under Roberts might very well overrule an assault weapons ban, because assault rifles are popular, and lots of law abiding citizens own them, even though there are a few bad apples here and there who have gone schizo and shot up theatres, schools, parking lots, malls, and other places with them.
Then again maybe the USSC even with John Roberts will decide that civilians should not have military type high capacity force multiplying rifles, just like Romney and Obama believe. Maybe and maybe not.
Gold and silver are a safer bet though. That's if you already have all your other prepper gear ready to go.