>gun manufacturers get bought out by venture capital firms, getting gutted in the process >continuously cut corners with every update and iteration of their products until fit, finish, and even small parts quality is destroyed >simultaneously increase msrp of firearms and attribute it to making 'new and improved' models filled to the brim with MIM parts and poor finishes
Do NOT buy from companies that are riding on their formerly good name, and get used versions of their good guns if necessary.
There are plenty of good new gun companies out there, but they're usually smaller than the big names
That’s too bad. It would be sick to own some of these older models. Especially if they were really cheap like in the $200-$300 range.
Jack Nguyen
Maybe if you got a nice 5 axis cnc they could be made to order without needing specific tooling for each one which the cost would be obviously astronomical. Quality billet is cheap enough in bulk and as long as you have the speeds and feeds dialed in tooling should last a while and really not even have to factor into cost. The single biggest obstacle, other than the upfront costs of all this shit, is being able to reliability, repeatably and correctly heat treat frames and barrels properly. It's all well and good to make 1:1 copies of guns, but if you can't harden shit properly then youre a walking lawsuit for exploding chambers and shit. Of course you could outsource that shit, but it adds to costs and forces you to carry inventory that might never sell since they're not going to do onesies and twosies every couple weeks.
Zachary Scott
9mm Toks already exist. Zastava imports them.
Levi Gomez
Wouldn’t another big factor be the licenses and permits required to sell firearms?
Asher Rogers
A patent isn't a technical data package nor is it instructions.
Landon Turner
I know but it would be legal to manufacture them without getting sued.
Ryan Murphy
Who cares about the legality when the skilled labor required to manufacture old world firearms designs has increased drastically over what the material cost to actually make them?
Juan Scott
But with the advancements in CNC it would be reasonable to be able to manufacture them.
Jonathan Adams
SIG, Kimber and now Springfield have all got on with the pocket pony game, each making basically clones of the Mustang, but with either upgrades in sights, grips, finishes. Colt missed out (again) because they were set on making the same old shit but charging more for it.
