Mega Rad Gun Thread

Love Machine said:
Let me rephrase. Why would someone buy one when they could just get the glock. I've never heard of a clone being superior. I can get hypothetically why they would be made.
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Nuance like grip shape, angle and other geometry can make or break it for a lot of people, not to mention that Glock holds firm on pricing and clones are either cheaper or more expensive with supposedly more features.
 
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Love Machine said:
Why would someone buy one when they could just get the glock
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For some it's pure aesthetics. For some it's an arguable improvement on the mechanics/design with the more "premium" Glock clones, like the Zev shit or the Shadow Systems shit. The one I think that is compelling is the RxM. Better grip from Magpul, still a good slide made by Ruger, for cheaper than a Glock, and it comes with metal irons with an optics cut as standard. Previously you could get a PSA Dagger for really cheap, they have some QC issues as is standard for PSA, but the value proposition for many is there. The people buying the P80 or other 80% kits are either A) felons, B) hobbyists, or C) conspiracy oriented people who can't otherwise buy private party. A lot of people like to tinker around and feel like they're making shit when they're just assembling off the shelf components.

I don't think there are many objective reasons to not buy the Glock vs the clones. The only couple I can really think of is a couple manufacturers make a clone that is it's A) reliable enough, if not as reliable, as a Glock and it's cheaper or B) the feature combination (better sights, mounting, porting, stippling, trigger etc) as standard offers a better value proposition than what can be had from buying a standard Glock.

The list of copes is long though, statements like, "the grip angle makes it unshootable," "the stippling is bad on a Glock," or "the trigger is bad;" It's cope and their fundamentals are bad. The gun is fine. Though those copes made a market. If they need to mess with the underlying core of the Glock to get a "Glock" they're happy with, they should just get another gun. Glock isn't for everyone but it's brand recognition is so strong that they still try and make them into to other guns, like trying to turn an AK into an AR.
 
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Glock 19 Gen 5 said:
The list of copes is long though, statements like, "the grip angle makes it unshootable," "the stippling is bad on a Glock," or "the trigger is bad;" It's cope and their fundamentals are bad. The gun is fine. Though those copes made a market. If they need to mess with the underlying core of the Glock to get a "Glock" they're happy with, they should just get another gun.
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Everything that sucks about Glock doesn't matter and everything they are good at matters a whole lot.
 
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Boney said:
>Sig
>Ever
Not in the year of Our Lord 2025.
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SIG's optics aren't bad if you're in the market for a cheap red dot. I've got a ROMEO7S on my AR and it works like a charm.
Then again, SIG optics aren't really SIG products - they're just rebadged Holosuns. From the same factory in China and everything.
 
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DoNotFeedTheSneed said:
Then again, SIG optics aren't really SIG products - they're just rebadged Holosuns. From the same factory in China and everything.
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depends on the exact SKU. the upper end SIG branded optics are assembled in Oregon with some domestic and foreign components. usually the electronics are either US, Japanese, or Taiwanese, the glass can be US or German, and the rest is from other places (scope bodies from Indonesia for example). there are also specific exceptions like the Tango 6T which is 100% US made due to military contract requirements, same for the Romeo Zero with the exception of the battery circuit being from Japan.
DOOMSlayer said:
I'm too paranoid to leave a handgun in the car unless I absolutely have to. Idk why anyone would
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per the FBI statistics, most criminals that use a stolen firearm acquired it from car burglaries 3:1 vs home burglaries, straw purchase, legal sale, or illegal sale.
 
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There was a gun show in my town today and it was surprisingly alright. Prices were mid but there were no tasers or jerky merchants to be seen. And the SKS prices were in the reasonable $425 range for a non bubba'd Type 56. I ended up getting a Beretta mag, an AR mag loader that some guy 3d printed and a GI mag marked "restricted military/gov't/law enforcement/export use only. I always wanted to own a mag like that as an ex Californian.
 
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dick brain said:
>3AM
>hear some horrifying hell noise
>reach for my handgun
>realize I left it in the car, along with my other handgun and my other other handgun
>load my other other other handgun
>clear the house
>go back to bed

I am so happy to be an American.
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Do you have a bathroom gun? I do. You never know if some shit might go down when you're taking a shower, or taking a leak in the middle of the night.

Club Sandwich said:
the upper end SIG branded optics are assembled in Oregon with some domestic and foreign components. usually the electronics are either US, Japanese, or Taiwanese, the glass can be US or German
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Notably, the Romeo 4T-PRO/4XT-PRO, and the Romeo 8T. Arguably really nice optics as long as Sig's QC department is doing its job. If I didn't have EOTech EXPS3s on my main ARs, I'd go with the Romeo 8T. It's kind of hefty, but I really like large window red dots.

I have a Romeo 5 on my first AR, and despite being kind of beat up, it still functions and is still zeroed. I did toss the shitty mount it came with though. Replaced it with an ADM mount.
 
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POWER IN MISERY said:
mail niggers lost my glock trigger housing
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I ordered some really beautiful AK furniture off of Etsy and they fucking destroyed it like splintered into pieces. The guy said it looked like it was run over with a truck when they sent it back to him. I can tell he was really upset cuz he put a lot of work into making it. He did refund me though. Shame his store is gone now
 
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