Mega Rad Gun Thread

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

I don't know a whole lot about guns. Do SAO handguns have inherently lighter trigger pull?
Google says Condition 1 is "magazine inserted, slide forward, round in chamber, safety on". Do certain states prohibit carrying guns with chambered rounds unless they're SAO?

SAO guns technically have a lighter pull, but that's because pulling the trigger doesn't (and can't) also have to cock the hammer as it does in double action or for the first round on a decocked DA/SA gun. Also, as far as I know, no states bar condition one carry if they allow carry.

 

[The Dude]

After spending a day at the farm with my dad plinking targets with various fireams, I have one question. And fucking ONLY one.

How in the fucking fuck does a company as terrible as HiPoint make such godawful pistols that nobody in their right minds would touch them barring the worst case scenario, yet their god damn fucking carbines are legit amazing for the price? I wouldn't spit on a whore to save them with one of their pistols, but honestly I would swear by their 995 carbines. Im no newbie to shooting, and my dad has 40 years on me. And we both love this damn thing.

What the fucking actual fuck. How can a single company nail down one aspect, and fail like niggers at math in the other?

It's a direct blow-back action. Literally the most basic and simple kind of self-loading action ever and has been around for over 100 years. It takes actual effort to fuck that up.

 

[Polock]

What's the point of single action handguns like S&W CSX?

DA/SA is more mechanically complex so you can save some money by making a gun SAO.

Even DAO would technically be more expensive to manufacture since there would be more stress put on the trigger linkage (although I imagine its fractions of a penny).

 

[a-Lager]

Speaking of nuggets, been peeping this hex Tula at my LGS going for 3-something and I'm wondering if I should cop it. I don't want to make my izhevsk mad though.

IT WAS FUCKING OVER PRESSURED TURKISH SURPLUS

Could have been worse, it could have been Greek

 

[Romulus augustulus]

it could have been Greek

But that’s the same thing as turkshit!

 

[BikeLock]

Holy moly what?
I have an actual K98 with an intact waffenamt, I figured at best it was worth $800.
And that is a stretch IMO.

I'm pretty sure my lend lease Eddystone M1917 is an $800 rifle now, lmao.

I'll never get rid of it because its got the Danish M53 range card on the stock and the red "30-06" barrel band.

 

[Mr. Confederate Man]

As an FYI to any history autists: there are once again a bunch of Beretta 1934s floating around the U.S. gun market for low prices. This happens every five or so years. They're mostly post-1950s, but still identical to the ones produced during WW2. The U.S. import laws require that these guns are circumcised before they're brought in, but you can buy intact barrels online. I don't know what the rationale for that is. According to Forgotten Weapons (vid below) imports are judged on a points system and barrel length is part of that. They're usually between 200-400 dollars in varying conditions.
Here's one I have from 1948 along with a reproduction holster:
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Forgotten Weapons vid where he mentions the import laws:

I got mine at a pawn shop for $300 with a box of ammo after I haggled them a bit. (Wasn’t hard since it sat so long the price tag had almost entirely faded away) 1936 production with an Italian army acceptance stamp.

The M1 Carbine is arguably worse. It was and still sometimes is priced higher than the Garand despite there being more of them.

I got my Garand through the CMP before they changed the pricing for $750 I don’t regret that one bit. On the Carbine side though, I received a barrel for one at an auction Monday, small lot of some gun parts and a black powder musket from the 1800s in poor condition that I wanted. Figured, “what the hell”, I have this now, might be fun to build a carbine.

And…. Into my pile of orphan parts it goes.