Also, for this state, it depends on the political climate and how hard our elected officials are trying to ban our EBR's.
I've sold a few rifles to people at the range for stupid money ($3k +) because people thought they were going to be banned.
This year has been all about semi auto pistols since most of them ended up going off the DOJ list due to micro stamping (oversimplified, look at CalGuns for more info).
This too, How educated the consumer is varies the price greatly I've seen low end DPMS going for 2k at gunshows. A few years ago they were the 700$ "I'm not sure on the quality" rifle.