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What if you were in a gunshop or pawn shop and came across one of these guns, never having seen one before; so you had no pre-conceived biases about it....
- It's a physically small shoulder carbine
- It's a semi-auto, so rate of fire is very good.
- It uses "slap-in" magazines (a la M16, vs. the "tilt-in" of the AK, FAL, etc), so reloading is very fast.
- Its magazines are readily and cheaply available
- It shoots a "medium-power" round; slightly more powerful than a .44 mag revolver, and the same power as a low-end .454 Casull round.
- Even with that power level, its gas-piston system means basically zero recoil. (I've had people as young as six years old shoot one of mine repeatedly with milsurp ammo.)
- Its gas-piston system means much lower maintenance (cleaning) requirements than an AR-platform gun.
- It is literally smaller than a Ruger 10-22
- Its ammo is currently in production from Federal, Remington, Winchester, PMC, and Magtech; some fmj, some SP and some HP. Yet surplus milspec ammo is available as well, although not as cheap as many milsurp calibers.
- It has no "pre-ban" / "post-ban" issues, so you can use a flash-hider, etc; even a silencer.
- Its price tag was $295
223 fan knows the gun of which I speak, as we've discussed it before. And while it will never be my primary defensive gun as I prefer the ergonomics, caliber, and accessories of the CAR-15, it is obviously worth considering. Even if not as your own "primary" gun, how about one, two, or three to arm your family or whoever...?
Surely someone here can guess the gun I'm talking about.
- It's a physically small shoulder carbine
- It's a semi-auto, so rate of fire is very good.
- It uses "slap-in" magazines (a la M16, vs. the "tilt-in" of the AK, FAL, etc), so reloading is very fast.
- Its magazines are readily and cheaply available
- It shoots a "medium-power" round; slightly more powerful than a .44 mag revolver, and the same power as a low-end .454 Casull round.
- Even with that power level, its gas-piston system means basically zero recoil. (I've had people as young as six years old shoot one of mine repeatedly with milsurp ammo.)
- Its gas-piston system means much lower maintenance (cleaning) requirements than an AR-platform gun.
- It is literally smaller than a Ruger 10-22
- Its ammo is currently in production from Federal, Remington, Winchester, PMC, and Magtech; some fmj, some SP and some HP. Yet surplus milspec ammo is available as well, although not as cheap as many milsurp calibers.
- It has no "pre-ban" / "post-ban" issues, so you can use a flash-hider, etc; even a silencer.
- Its price tag was $295
223 fan knows the gun of which I speak, as we've discussed it before. And while it will never be my primary defensive gun as I prefer the ergonomics, caliber, and accessories of the CAR-15, it is obviously worth considering. Even if not as your own "primary" gun, how about one, two, or three to arm your family or whoever...?
Surely someone here can guess the gun I'm talking about.