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Does anyone know what the gun is above Brugger's head from 0:14 onward is? Because it looks like an integrally suppressed semi auto pistol and as far as I know B&T has never showed one of those off
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a modified USW (universal service weapon). i have a machinepistol version of it, although the later A1 version is significantly improved, the one in the video is an early model of the original USW. the USW was also available as a striker-fired pistol known as the USW-P prior to being popularized as a conversion kit (USW-SF is a striker-fired USW, for those that wanted the USW but didn't want a hammer-fired version for whatever reason). the USW-G is a conversion kit for the Glock and come in different frame sizes, there's one for the P320 as well.
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Taser Confetti
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I for one am not dropping hundreds of dollars on an item a company started manufacturing last week.
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I initially thought it was a chopped up VP-9 or something but now I can barely just make out the little scallop texture on the right side of the grip indicating it is definitely a B&T mark-II derivative
I was also initially confused because I couldn't see a hammer spur because I falsely remembered the B&T Mark-II (which would as you said serves as the basis for the original USW) had a way bigger hammer than it actually does.
Polock
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Couple of factors
If I don't have a pile of ammo for it already I'm automatically less inclined to buy it. Simple as that.
If its a gun over $500 I am definitely not impulse buying it.
If its something goofy that's going to cost an additional $500 to actually be usable I am probably going to pump the brakes (R.I.P. FrankenAR-57, my beloved)
You are totally right about just using what you got to develop your base skills more. There are fiddly specific things that you can only train when using a specific gun but we aren't HIGH SPEED OOPERATORS that need to worry about that kind of stuff. Whenever I get the itch and something is in my cart I think about how much ammo I could buy for half of that instead and how much range time that would allow me and in that context I can resist.
There are a couple things on my wishlist that I will be getting soon™ because they're cool and that's the only reason but they aren't impulses they're more of obsessions.
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Ruger is buying Anderson. No word if they'll keep the brand or just absorb the manufacturering for their own stuff.
Seethecoper
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Question I hope isn't too dumb:
What's the upside to buying a gun on GunBroker? I want a Remington 870 and GunBroker has a few for less than 300 bucks, while the two I found in my local gun stores are 500+. Aside from saving myself a few hundred bucks (and getting the wood stock I want instead of polymer), why shouldn't I buy off GunBroker?
What's the upside to buying a gun on GunBroker? I want a Remington 870 and GunBroker has a few for less than 300 bucks, while the two I found in my local gun stores are 500+. Aside from saving myself a few hundred bucks (and getting the wood stock I want instead of polymer), why shouldn't I buy off GunBroker?
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Can't speak for anyone else so this is a sample size of one, but I haven't had any issues with over a dozen or so transactions. As long as you're buying from established sellers, it's pretty straightforward.
Akran
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If the guy has a good rating you shouldn't really have any issues, I've never had issues buying. I'd just double check the payment method, I hate money order only ones so I try to avoid that unless its rare or I 100% need it. If they take card you might get charged a 3% fee but I doubt that on top of taxes and shipping will bring it up to what your LGS charges. Selling is an entirely different story and I'm sure one of us can rant about it all day.
Alcoholism
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Do the math first tho. Gunbroker has one for 300 bucks but how much is shipping and insurance? Are they charging any additional fees? What is your FFL fee?
If all of that adds up to $475 then are you really saving money by time/travel/ffl/etc when you can just go buy one at the store for $500? You can also just make them an offer as well.
That said, I bought my last 870 with all the fudd wood furniture on it for something like $400.
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Rare stuff that you can't find anywhere else. Anything common is likely cheaper at real stores, both online and physical.
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I would have agreed with you like 20 years ago but if it's even relatively out of the ordinary it's going to be above street price.
Bonus points for "No Reserve!" with the starting bid at three grand.
DocAwe
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Get a Mossberg 590 instead.
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I still regret cancelling my order on a 590 retrograde 20" with the bayonet lug. it was a deal but talked myself out of it post order.
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Maverick 88 if you want to save some cash. The polymer trigger assembly of the 500-series isn't as bad as a lot of people claim and there will always be spares available.
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I do not like the tang safety. Button safety supremacist.
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If guns were illegal immigrant trannies they would have gone through just fine.
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Now if only they weren't NFA items and any machine shop could just start cranking these things out...
We're talking about a cylinder with threads and baffles, people have diy'd these things at home. Also the bigger picture is that any company could subcontract out parts and they'd have controls in place for QA. For example it wouldn't be 18 different competing shops popping up (at least not completely) but it'd be a shop with tooling getting an order from some silencer company to make them 1000 bodies on their CNC machines and another company would get orders for baffle stacks or whatever etc. You can scale up parts of the whole, it's not suddenly a garage workshop popping up out of nowhere with $600 total in hand tools making these things. It'll be a machine shop that preferably fabricates parts within tight tolerances getting another set of products to run. I think a tried and true machine/tool shop that didn't have to get yet another certificate and more government bullshit to deal with would be more than happy to stick their toe into said market, even if it is just throwing one different part into their wire EDM machines.