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Family's co-worker's father died and he inherited more guns than he wanted to deal with; he knew I liked guns and got in contact. He handed me a brown bag of multiple handguns and said make an offer on any or all of them. The only one that really caught my fancy was this .380 Llama 1911 (manufactured in the 1980s best I can tell from researching online). In looking at the price for these they seem to run 300$ and up based on condition. This one's in okay to maybe good condition, as the vast majority of the bluing is still there, a bit of holster wear, and superficial surface rust under the plastic grips that was easy enough to remove. Told him I couldn't make a reasonable offer that wasn't an offensive lowball, as I did want the gun, but didn't want it 300$ worth. He said just offer anyways, told him most I was willing to do was 100$ and now it's mine. He really did just want to get rid of those guns, said his safe was full and he had guns overflowing from under his bed. Win win I guess.
It's been surprisingly reliable, only put ~400 rounds through it so far and it has only FTF once on a magazine of some dirty steel cased stuff. Fun plinker overall, would recommend.
 

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Back me up! said:
What a good entry 2-stage drop in trigger?
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if you're talking about AR's, Timney and CMC make very user-friendly and good quality triggers for beginner competitors up through the range of skill ceiling. between the two i prefer CMC. Geissele SSA is good as well, but i wouldn't call it beginner friendly due to price. Larue makes an "okay" trigger in the MBT, especially for the price but it would come behind Timney imho and is about equal (among people i know that do service rifle competition) to the ALG ACT if you use the heavier return spring.

since you specified a cassette trigger, the CMC 93504 might work for you, i see those regularly around $140, but the Larue MBT will likely be a better overall buy for the money asked vs Timney especially at or under $100.

Deckard Bane said:
extremely good quality and will last a lifetime if you take care of them. Hell, even if you don't they probably will last, my 20+ year old service issued one was beat to shit but still worked great
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speaking from experience doing armory work for decades: the locking block is the weak point. if you're swapping a barrel. you're swapping the block. if you're replacing a cracked block, you're fitting the new block to the old barrel or also replacing the barrel and fitting them both.
Dozernaut said:
Girsan products, specifically shotguns
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decent turkish shotgun for cheap. might have teething issues and parts interchangeability issues due to factory hand fitment of mass produced cast parts. goes bang though.
Basado said:
DS Arms FN FAL
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good rifles, good parts, good price, poor customer service (from when i dealt with them both as a customer and later as a stocking dealer and then later more as a gunsmith).
Larry Potterfield said:
family tradition was when you were old enough to hunt, you got a shotgun, and all of my gramps' were side by sides
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typically over-under was preferred for hunting migratory birds and game birds like pheasant as it's easier to regulate barrels for follow up shots when they are arranged on top of each other, the shotgun is heavier for better swing and if shooting larger shot sizes you are better served with magnum chambers. side-by-side barrel regulation is more annoying especially on well used shotguns that, over time, have cracked solder between the barrels or the spine has come loose and it's no longer ringing true. the shotguns themselves are more mechanically complex than a side-by-side, and also more expensive to produce. especially since the 1920's they also command a premium over a side-by-side. historically though bespoke shotguns are typically side-by-side designs.
Glock 19 Gen 5 said:
.380 Llama 1911
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Llama's of all type tended to have cracked grips or eventually get cracked grips either from poor wood quality or poor (early) phenolic plastic grips. if yours are in good condition consider yourself lucky.
 
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AGPinochet said:
The Hi-point completely ignores the purpose of the .30 SC (more rounds in the same size magazine) because it holds a whopping 10 of them.
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If the Hi-Point used a double stack magazine for a hypothetical pistol of theirs, I could see an appeal I guess, but this seems like a very limp "Well, maybe if someone bought one of those pistols in that caliber, they'd want a carbine for it?"
Unless High Tower comes out with a magwell for their bullpup stocks for this thing, so it can have some 20rd and 30rd sticks, I really don't see a compelling point here.

Even then, why pick this over 9mm? Even if .30SC catches on, it'll probably never be as cheap and abundant. This one will be a ForgottenWeapons video in a decade.
 
HumptiDouji said:
If the Hi-Point used a double stack magazine for a hypothetical pistol of theirs, I could see an appeal I guess, but this seems like a very limp "Well, maybe if someone bought one of those pistols in that caliber, they'd want a carbine for it?"
Unless High Tower comes out with a magwell for their bullpup stocks for this thing, so it can have some 20rd and 30rd sticks, I really don't see a compelling point here.

Even then, why pick this over 9mm? Even if .30SC catches on, it'll probably never be as cheap and abundant. This one will be a ForgottenWeapons video in a decdecade
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Personally I'm just excited for more 30 SC firearms. I see a extended mag in its future very soon for the Hi-Point, they would be stupid not to, and I'll admit, it has me interested- still haven't bought a new gun yet due to car troubles, though things seem stable now. You probably aren't wrong it ends up on Forgotten Weapons one day, but who knows?
 
Seafarer said:
Does anyone know any good resources (preferably online) on U.S. civilian firearms of the 1920’s and 1930’s? whenever I look up the terms “civilian” and “firearm” I just get a bunch of retarded gun control articles.
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You may be phrasing it wrong. I believe prior to the NFA in 34 almost all firearms would have been open to all. If you want contemporary sources old catalogs such as sears had some articles that were half review half sales pitch that might be interesting.
 
Seafarer said:
U.S. civilian firearms of the 1920’s and 1930
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Do you want just firearms manufactured around the '20s and '30s? Because the firearms that were possibly owned around that time in the United States could include shit made in the 1600s or earlier from any number of countries. There's a number of books out there that catalog firearms from say the 20th century or 19th century ect., it's thousands of guns. Or books that give a more broad history in the style of like guns of the west, guns innovation around WW1 ect. I'd doubt there's a nice digital searchable directory of what guns people in the '20s and '30s may have owned. That'd be a really fun and autistic project though.

As Rainbow Idiot said looking up old sears catalogs will give the more popular guns that were on the market back then. Other collector forums will have a great number of gun information but it'll be more specialized to a category. You could look up the big names like Winchester, Colt, yada yada and look up the models in production from the 1930s and earlier and make a nice list.

Overall what you're askin' for is very very broad and I'd say lookin for books is a good start
edit: did some searching: Firearms: An Illustrated History by DK is on annas-archive.org as is The Illustrated Directory of Guns: A Collector's Guide to Over 1500 Military, Sporting, and Antique Firearms, By David Miller. Both are also on Amazon if you want a physical copy. Haven't read either but if you don't know where to start those can't be terrible starts.
Also the online NRA Museum has a smattering of info: https://www.nramuseum.org/guns/the-galleries/the-american-west-1850-to-1900.aspx
 
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Cpl. Long Dong Silver said:
You know what I was wondering? Why don't more poverty mass shooters use Hi Point carbines as opposed to Kel Tec sub 2000s?
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Welfare pays too much, dey get them fancy glawks and sheeeet. Also CIA pays pretty good to an hero and shoot a church up. Last gun I got, I sent the FBI an email saying I plan on mass killing a bunch of 8 year olds and they mailed me a HK AR.

Jokes on them, I'm not committing any crimes.

Jokes aside my dumb ass just spent 30+ dollars for a HK AR mag because it's neat coat, stamp and be cool for my collection.
 
Rylee Lawson on the shotgun run @ Nevada CMSA (Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association) State Championships.
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New P320 Design flaw just dropped.
Also update on the 3D Printed FM-15 Bullpup lower
"First, just wanted to thank everyone for attention of my previous posts. I did not think it would be as well received as it was, I am humbled.
Update to my earlier posts:
I wanted to make a video showing the trigger weight and pull. It pulls around 2.5-3.5 lb depending on where the bow is pulled. Using a Rise Armament RA 140 which is advertised at 3.5 lb so pull weight is just as good if not better. There is a slight bit of pretravel and then there is a wall that has a tiny bit of mush but overall break is pretty crisp. Overtravel is not much as well.
Magazine releases are also all functioning now. Force required to push is normal and smooth. I wanted to show magazine compatibility and that they drop free.
Still won't be released since I am not finished yet."
 

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AGPinochet said:
New P320 Design flaw just dropped.
Also update on the 3D Printed FM-15 Bullpup lower
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9LX_216k-bk"First, just wanted to thank everyone for attention of my previous posts. I did not think it would be as well received as it was, I am humbled.
Update to my earlier posts:
I wanted to make a video showing the trigger weight and pull. It pulls around 2.5-3.5 lb depending on where the bow is pulled. Using a Rise Armament RA 140 which is advertised at 3.5 lb so pull weight is just as good if not better. There is a slight bit of pretravel and then there is a wall that has a tiny bit of mush but overall break is pretty crisp. Overtravel is not much as well.
Magazine releases are also all functioning now. Force required to push is normal and smooth. I wanted to show magazine compatibility and that they drop free.
Still won't be released since I am not finished yet."
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Because most people aren't jamming in poorly made 3d printed magazines into their P320s.

Dude is a Glock worshipping autist, like 99% of of gun printing autists.
 
AGPinochet said:
The issue has nothing to do with 3D printed magazines and everything to do with factory steel magazines though?
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The P320/M17/M18 series has been around for over half a decade. If this issue was deadlining guns outside of Glock worshippers fever dreams it would have come up as a major issue already.

January 2014 for the 9mm P320, it's April 2023, millions of pistols later. No major issues regarding magazines killing the pistol. They DID have a drop safety issue due to a light weight trigger assembly that could be activated by a very hard hit at a particular angle.

It has been fixed.

Hell, I like my M&P 2.0 more than either Glock or P320 series but all these people are just glomming onto a few retarded cops NDing themselves because they're fucking idiots and blaming the gun.

Meanwhile Remington sold a rifle for decades that could quite literally fire upon Safety activation and it killed multiple people... Yet people still recommend the R700 when far ..... Far better or cheaper rifles exist.

Fuck Remington (yeah the 870 has been ass since the late 1990s too, sorry)
 
Forget the p320, embrace the two tone USP you spend next months rent on
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I never thought I'd see something this neat in my local shop, usually all the used guns they have are just shotguns old timers that kicked the can used for pheasant season.
 
Bogliacci said:
Forget the p320, embrace the two tone USP you spend next months rent on
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I never thought I'd see something this neat in my local shop, usually all the used guns they have are just shotguns old timers that kicked the can used for pheasant season.
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Almost perfect except for the weird magazine ejection..... Nubbin lever thing.

I know it's supposed to be ambidextrous but that one design feature RUINED the USP and similar pistols from Walther for me.

That said yeah, I'd buy one just for some RE4 larping (although thankfully the SIG P226 is also canon for that game too)
 
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