China Just Changed the M14 Market Forever

China Just Changed the M14 Market Forever You are standing at a gun counter holding a rifle with a wooden stock and a receiver stamped with Chinese characters. The dealer behind the glass tells you it is a Norinco, made sometime before 1994, and that it is priced at $1,400. You look at it again. It is not new. It has a few scratches on the forend and a parkerized finish that has gone slightly gray with age. And yet it costs almost as much as a brand new rifle sitting three feet away in the same case, a Springfield Armory M1A, fresh from the factory in Illinois with a lifetime warranty and not a single mile on it.