Yep, you best buy one, if you can find one!
Last weeks local paper I saw a guy advertising two AR's, he had a 223 S&W MP15 for $2200 and a DPMS 308 for $3200 or $5000 for both(used!), ouch!!!! A month ago I could have bought a brand new 223 S&W for less than $900 and the DPMS 308 for less than $1300. A week before that a guy had a Bushmaster for $2800. I guess the prices for used AR's has gone thru the roof, arround here anyway. Last weekend I went to Lewiston, no AR in any gunstore except for the Black Sheep and the two they had were S&W MP15 22L.R.'s.