I built my AR 15 in November for $ 595.00. That's without optics. The assault weapons ban won't pass. Wait a couple months and the guns and ammo will be in stock and affordable again.
I hope so buddy, really wanna get me one but at that kinda price you paid.
I ordered a complete AR 15 parts kit from akpartskits.com for $430 and a stripped lower reciever $150 and 30 round magazine $10 from Independence Fire Arms. Put it together in about 45 minutes. Everything functioned great but the trigger pull sucked. I took the trigger assembly out and took a little off with a fine file and polished it with sand paper and now the trigger pull is really nice. It functions and shoots as tight or tighter groups than all of the ones that my friends have and they paid twice as much or more for theirs from gun dealers and that was before all the price gouging.