I don't know why someone would pay $1200 for a Mini, but they might have had their reasons. Likely panic, but who knows.
There was a time though, that the Mini had an edge over the AR as it wasn't on a lot of some of the ban list. That's likely to have all changed now, or has it?
I think you can buy them unaltered in California, while you cannot buy unaltered AR platform rifles there.
