AMEN! I have started to think, that anyone purchasing a new firearm now, is getting the shaft. Prices are so over blown, and yes, I know all about supply and demand. Maybe gun people are causing these awful prices, maybe it is all the new shooters. Prices just don't need to be this high in my opinion. Gun prices now, at least where I live, bring a whole new meaning to the word absurd. Add to this, the fact that so many new guns have to be returned at least once before they work right, and that adds to it all. According to my gun shop, it's not just the Taurus, Kel-Tec, Diamondback ect. types, but the top of the line guns also. At least the shop where I go, will with in a year, send back any gun you buy from them for repair, no charge.The first handgun I ever bought was a lemon, since then I have tried hard to not make a poor buy (in terms of the gun itself) by thoroughly researching each and every gun I bought. However I have had a pretty raw deal before I swallowed willingly and regretted later. Like buying a gun at well over the average going rate impulsively, based on imagined necessity. Worse was selling it later only to taste that regret again as I lost again by only managing to recoup 60% of the going rate. Buying a junk gun and getting screwed is one thing, buying a decent gun and still getting screwed, that's a sour flavor!