r/canadaguns • u/cheddarkittyy • Mar 24 '26

Buy recommendations Why are Chinese sks so expensive now?

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I spent $450 in December 2024 for my Chinese sks. My dad just got his pal and I was looking to get one for him and it’s $850 now? What? Why did the price almost double in just over a year?

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u/prosper_0 Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26

'tis the way of the milsurp market, it ebbs and flows. Same as the m1 carbine years ago - they were basically 'free' in the US for a while due to oversupply. There was a huge SKS market surplus for a while there when most SKS's were banned from the US market, leading to a massive overabundance here. Then add in the fact that people see them as a way to 'stick it to the Liberals' (not quite sure how that actually works, but whatever).

In short, market economics plus futile symbolism, and a good bit of FOMO anxiety.

Despite the rhetoric otherwise, there are plenty of measurable 'better' options out there. You just have to look, and not drink the kool-aid

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u/prosper_0 Mar 24 '26 edited Mar 24 '26

It absolutely does. These are global products, available to global markets. If you have a fixed amount of product and you can sell it to both Canadian and American markets, then you have many more folks to sell to and can charge higher prices. But if you have the same amount of product but one of your markets is closed to you, then you have a lot fewer potential customers and a giant surplus of product.