Underrated or Vilified Weaponry of the past and present

>>35180339

AB-10 actually.

>MP-9 - Kellgren's original full auto offering to mil/leo, which did poorly
>KG-9 - First import to US; open bolt semi-auto
>KG-99 - Changed from open bolt to closed both
>Tec-9 - Renamed KG-99 when Kellgren sold his share of Interdynamic AB to the Garcia family
>Hurricane Andrew damages Intratec warehouse, kills Tec-38 stuff, etc
>Business goes under
>Carlos Garcia buys assets from father, calls new company Navegar but still sells the guns under Intratec Brand
>DC-9 = District of Columbia, renamed in 1991 over the Assault Weapon Manufacturing Strict Liability Act. First 36k models were identical to Tec-9, later models had a sling attachment added in the back to justify that DC stood for Defensive Carry and not District of Columbia
>AB-10 - After Ban 10 (rounds), a modified Tec 9 mini to comply with AWB of 1994. The AB-10 is essentially a Tec-9 mini without the threaded barrel.

Company finally went out of business due to declining sales and multiple lawsuits.

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For the price, it's really hard to beat. There are a bunch of really stupid safeties on it because it's made in California, but it's easy enough to disable said safeties without voiding the warranty.

>>35180472

More interesting autistic-tier facts:

>Raven assets were bought by Phoenix. Phoenix made a MP-25 for a while but has dropped it from production
>Cobra bought Lorcin and Davis assets
>Paul Jimenez outbid an antigun group by $50k (IIRC) to save Jennings tooling and molds from being melted and destroyed and now sells certain Jennings models under the Jimenez brand name with a lifetime warranty.

Both Cobra and Phoenix have developed their own models, with the HP22 and HP25 arguably being the most successful unique products out of any current iteration of the old Ring of Fire companies.

more autism:

In the 1960's, there was a company called EIG. They originally imported knives but started importing cheap pistols before the Gun Control Act of 1968. They eventually turned into FIE, which made domestic pistols and imported early KG-99's, Spas 12's, etc. They also imported an Italian-made SAA revolver they called the E-15 in .22LR. FIE went out of business in the early 90's and former employees created two companies from the ashes; European American Armory (which primarily deals with imports) and a little company called Heritage. Yes, the Heritage revolvers that you see for sale are basically rebranded FIE E-15's.

Also; Universal/Planfield/Iver Johnson remnants were killed off when the FOPA of 1986 undid the milsurp import ban of the 1968 GCA, so there was no longer a huge market for domestic made M1 carbine copies when there were hundreds of thousands to import from overseas on the cheap.

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ACRs are underrated and may be more expensive than ARs but they run the cheap 556 that nobody wants

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A lot of old hardware store and department store guns are pretty good. A lot of good brands like old Marlin, Savage and Mossberg you can get cheaper than the normal versions because it says JC Higgens.

>>35180690
Cooey made a lot of store brand guns. Pretty good shit.

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>>35180827

Yeah, my favorite so far was a cheap Stevens Model 76 .22 semi auto rifle I got for $115. Thing has absolutely no recoil and is fairly accurate too.

>>35180339
the flintlock pocket pistol with turn barrel.

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It's just so fucking good looking. The 1903 and 1910 get forgotten due to the 1911 coming around so soon after.

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>>35184411
>Calling Vollmer's Mp40 a Schmeisser
How fucking new are you?

>>35184411
>This is what shitheads actually believe

>>35184411
Kek
Also sad but true
Side note, anne frank wrote more about
Masturbation than annything else..
That shit off course got eddited out..
Like sooooo much other things in our
Recent histor got "eddited"

>>35184539
>couldn't have been written before 1951 says /pol/
>was first published in 1947 says reality

>>35180523

Destroying Raven, Phoenix, etc is probably the only time I've ever supported grabbers.

Those guns are garbage. They are not cheap guns for the poor, they are literally disposable pocket pistols that you can just throw in the gutter after they become a murder weapon. Their unreliability, poor construction and all around shit quality make them a terrible choice for a defensive arm but are just fine for offensive shooting. It dosen't matter if the gun jams every third shot if you are ambushing someone and already shot them twice, it dosen't matter if the gun falls apart under use when you will fire maybe a dozen rounds out of it, etc etc.

Hi-Points are Holland & Holland custom safari guns compared to that garage.

>>35184539
That's BS, Levin sued Otto Frank because he had secured the rights to making a play from the diary. Otto also gave the rights to another writer, hence the lawsuit.

>>35184571
you're a retard

>>35185459
You said what I was going to.

>>35184525
Mate you're gonna have to sauce the masturbation stories