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Not to mention as consumer products go they are incredibly long lived, I can’t think of many activities where someone might still use their grandfather’s [tenni
by cascom 7y ago
Not to mention as consumer products go they are incredibly long lived, I can’t think of many activities where someone might still use their grandfather’s [tennis racquet, golf clubs, etc], but you regularly see people still using 50-75 year old guns (if not older)
- DuskStar 7y agoIt doesn't help that a lot of the "fun shit" is restricted to those older guns, since they've been grandfathered in during the US's various prunings of gun rights. So a 50 year old gun might be legitimately superior to one manufactured this year, which causes all manner of weirdness.
- wl 7y agoWhat kind of "fun shit" are you thinking of? Select fire is rare and expensive. Open bolt semiautomatics? Eh, some people are into collecting such things, but closed bolts are just as fun to shoot. Just about the only somewhat reasonably priced grandfathered "fun shit" are pistols that can take stocks and not be NFA SBRs.
- DuskStar 7y agoSelect fire is rare and expensive for legislative, not practical, reasons. And it is VERY fun, if not particularly useful. It's a large part of what I was thinking of. Why would the price matter?
- wl 7y agoIf we're having a discussion about long-lived firearms having an effect on the market for new firearms, select fire is so rare (175,997 pre-86 transferrable as of February 2016[0]) as to be irrelevant. [0] https://www.nfatca.org/pubs/MG_Count_FOIA_2016.pdf https://www.nfatca.org/pubs/MG_Count_FOIA_2016.pdf