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If I have the right company in mind, years ago Star had a fairly decent reputation for their 9MMs among those who wanted a fairly inexpensive but reliable handgun. I never owned one but heard they were decent to good guns (not very good or excellent). I also remember reading that a little work, by the home gunsmith, could easily make them very good to excellent. If you can get one inexpensively enough, and if replacement parts are available at a decent price, then it may make a decent gun on which to practice home gunsmith skills.
Who knows, you may even pick up a very good to excellent one that you decide to keep as is, and that one may make an excellent sidearm.
I often ponder buying some of these inexpensive pistols, but to do so I have to go through an FFL like the rest of you - unless it is C&R license elligible. The Star is not as I recall. This would add an expense of about $35 to $45 for a transfer fee through a local FFL holder, and make it not worth the expense if it turns out to be junk. The FFL holders charge a pretty high fee on Long Island, NY (just outside NYC). So I have not bought any of those that require an FFL.
Since I have a C&R License, I am considering a CZ although I do not like the caliber. Well not so much the caliber as I dislike the actual available ammo. My guess is that when you pick up a thousand rounds of it, it would be corrosive, and if not corrosive then it would be reloads in the original brass that had at one time contained corrosive primers. I don't want to be buying reloads - would you trust someone else you did not know to reload safely! So I have not bought one of them.
I would not mind picking up an fairly inexpensivve 9MM or two that is C&R elligible. Anybody know of any of these that are currently readily available at a very good price?
Who knows, you may even pick up a very good to excellent one that you decide to keep as is, and that one may make an excellent sidearm.
I often ponder buying some of these inexpensive pistols, but to do so I have to go through an FFL like the rest of you - unless it is C&R license elligible. The Star is not as I recall. This would add an expense of about $35 to $45 for a transfer fee through a local FFL holder, and make it not worth the expense if it turns out to be junk. The FFL holders charge a pretty high fee on Long Island, NY (just outside NYC). So I have not bought any of those that require an FFL.
Since I have a C&R License, I am considering a CZ although I do not like the caliber. Well not so much the caliber as I dislike the actual available ammo. My guess is that when you pick up a thousand rounds of it, it would be corrosive, and if not corrosive then it would be reloads in the original brass that had at one time contained corrosive primers. I don't want to be buying reloads - would you trust someone else you did not know to reload safely! So I have not bought one of them.
I would not mind picking up an fairly inexpensivve 9MM or two that is C&R elligible. Anybody know of any of these that are currently readily available at a very good price?