SP01 Shadow, Accu-Shadow, with my custom grips…
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That damn forward grip puts your hand right there where the action is. I don't think I've ever seen a registered complete Tec 9 before. I HAVE seen a registered bolt a few years ago on GunBroker.Now with the KG-9 added to the family, it appears I collect unjustifiably expensive poorly made handguns.
From the left, registered Tec-9 Machinegun, 1982 NIB KG-99, 1981 NIB KG-9
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That damn forward grip puts your hand right there where the action is. I don't think I've ever seen a registered complete Tec 9 before. I HAVE seen a registered bolt a few years ago on GunBroker.
Okay so if my memory serves me I recall the Tech 9M I owned in 91ish was a striker fired semi. And it had this big silver flapper looking piece in the trigger group that was what caught and held the rear of the striker until you pulled the trigger and it dropped down just far enough out of the way to release the striker.It really does. I was a bit nervous the first time I shot it 2 weeks ago. If you extend your pointer finger, you can lose the very end of it. It has an insane rate of fire of 2100rpm, which is the fastest machinegun I have ever shot. Adds to the nervousness of shooting your finger off.
Market on FA transferable Tec-9 is about 15K. However that is for registered receiver guns. The RR guns are a lot more common and risky for your investment as the plastic lower can crack. I have a much more desirable and investment safe registered open bolt, but we'll get into that in a sec.
In 1980 Interdynamics was trying to win a government contract with their open bolt MP-9 SMG. Nobody was interested, so they converted it to semi-auto and commercialized it in 1981 to the civilian market as the KG-9. That lasted a year before the ATF banned them from using open bolts as they were too easy to convert to full auto. Interdynamics then release the KG99 in 1982 which is a closed bolt. The ATF prohibited putting a KG9 open bolt into a KG99 or later Tec-9s and DC-9s. Doing so would constitute having an unregistered machinegun EVEN if it is semi-auto.
Meaning, in the picture below, it would be illegal (unregistered machinegun) if I took the bolt out of the KG9 that I got yesterday (on the right) and put it in the KG99 (top middle gun). Only the KG9 is granfathered in, so the lower has to say KG9. Which is why collectors pay 4K for a KG9 and only a forth of that for a KG99. Going back to the FA conversions, in the 80s, people often form-1ed a KG9, KG99 TEC9 using a modified KG9 open bolt.
Many people short sightedly registered the receiver instead of the bolt. They were now stuck with a plastic transferable lower. Others cleverly registered the KG9s open bolt. Given that the KG9s were only available for a year, KG9 open bolts quickly dried up. So BG Machine stepped in and reverse engineered the KG9 open bolt in FA. That is what I have. They are not as common but are the most desirable as you can move them around from host to host in 2 minutes. Market on the bolts is about 15K and you buy a 1K Tec9 as a host. That is a much better and safer investment than an registered receiver gun for 1K less.
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Here is a video of the full auto Tec-9 I did a few weeks ago. I'm on the way to my cabin right now to do another Tec9 video and a full auto AK47 video.
Okay so if my memory serves me I recall the Tech 9M I owned in 91ish was a striker fired semi. And it had this big silver flapper looking piece in the trigger group that was what caught and held the rear of the striker until you pulled the trigger and it dropped down just far enough out of the way to release the striker.
So what I think I'm getting here from you is that same trigger group could be used as the main search engagement to hold the bolt to the rear on an open bolt setup. If so that's kind of amazing.
Colt 1908 Vest Pocket nickel made 1919It is time for everyone to show off some classic Semi Autos in your collection. What ya got that's special or collectible?
My first example is a serial number UNDER 950 of the Colt Jrs made in Spain.
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I knew the Long Slides were coming.

And some more LS's.All LongSlides…a couple of unobtaniums in there…View attachment 7642450