Why didn't the M3 become more popular in the civilian market?

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>>30278027
Bump for interest, you would think they would make at least a pistol version...

>>30278027
Because of the NFA.
What do I win?

because it's a cheapshit open bolt subgun. Same reason the STEN isn't popular, all the virtues of the cheap open bolt gun are gone when you adapt it to be legal.

If the gays had M3 Grease gun, they could've prevented the Pulse Tragedy.

>>30278027
part of me wants to believe they still have hundreds of thousands of these things in storage in national guard armories throughout the country to be released in the even of a land war on american soil

>>30278027
Because of the NFA and >>30278067.

They didn't even have a fucking charging handle.
There are better options for a little bit more cash if you're a Civillian, and therefore it only ever got real use with the military (who designed it to be the cheapest possible gun they could be)

>>30278323
nope. We gave em all to the Flips and South Vietnamese.

>>30278323
Who even knows? Government likes to hang on to shit.

In all likelihood though, they were probably just scrapped, or sold off/given to friendly interests elsewhere.

>Somewhere in 'Nam is a warehouse with crates upon crates of them...

>>30278376
The first version had that weird lever as a charging hammer, and it kept getting fucked up in combat.

The A1 model had the hole-in-the-bolt deal... how that seemed like the best option, I don't even know.

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get them cheap while you can

>>30278027
NFA
200 dollarydoos was a lot more money back then

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>>30278415

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>>30278196
>tragedy

>>30278443
xD yea my fellow redditor fuck those faggots XDD epic thumbs up!

>>30278482
Honestly the more faggots react to this shooting by defending Muslims and demanding gun control the less I care that they died.

If they want to be counted among the enemy I won't mourn them

>>30278415
>made by Guide Lamp Division of General Motors,
>the Ford of the machine gun field
kek

>>30278503
Yeah those cherrypicked reactions of a few people used by the media to reduce anti-muslim sentiment are totally representative of the opinions of the people that died. It totally makes the massacre of all of those people not a tragedy, but instead liberal bullshit.

>>30278642
>assmad faggot detected
[Serious] any and all loss of life is a tragedy since life is intrinsically valuable and worth protecting. I just made an edgelord post to trigger people [/serious]
You don't have to be upset just because your life expectancy is 2 decades shorter than normal people's

>>30278749
his post didn't seem angry at all

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>>30278053