So, here it is. I had been on the backorder list for a long time and these finally were available earlier this week. At $439 plus shipping and transfer it seemed like a no brainer.
These ship in a massive cardboard box padded with bubblewrap, not something you’d use for storage or want to keep. I’m talking a 12”x12”x8” unmarked cardboard box. The firearm was wrapped in a plastic bag. The first thing I noticed was the welds on it are huuuuuge and some are even porous. *I* don’t care too much but some people might. Even LEINADs don’t have welds like mine. I immediately shot some oil into the action and fired a few Sten mags through it. It functioned absolutely flawlessly on assorted 9mm I had floating around the bottom of an ammo can. Brass, steel, and aluminum round ball. It choked on one 147gr flat nose I had missed while sorting the ammo out.
Accuracy was acceptable for what it is, but here is the worst part about the firearm I have noticed: the magazine release is nearly impossible to operate. It is made out of some injection molded polymer and is as sharp as can be. In fact every edge on this gun is sharp. But magazines almost jam into the gun including the MPA polymer magazine they include. I found the easiest way to release a magazine was to flip the gun upside down, use one hand to push in the button and your other hand to pull the mag. The magazine release is held captive by the grip with a pin, there are no tabs on the grip frame to pin the release to. This makes all aftermarket magazine releases that allow you to get some leverage or more surface area on your thumb not able to be used easily. You’ll have to either weld tabs onto your grip frame or modify your grip/new release to get something else installed. Personally, I will pin and epoxy something onto the end of the release to give myself a larger release for leverage, or maybe try tuning the magazine release spring some.
Everything else is pretty standard it seems. It has absolutely zero trigger slap. I think for sub $500 it’s worth looking into if you can live with hard magazine changes and butt ugly welds. Old MPA930s and Cobray Mac 11/Nines are every bit of $1k so this does fill a void in a collection. Again, no failures of any kind with all types of ball ammo and it fed from multiple different untested Sten magazines perfectly. Now, for pictures. I have micrometers on hand and can take measurements of anything if requested. Velocity sells every small part on their site for a reasonable price and also offer a 1 year warranty on their guns.
These ship in a massive cardboard box padded with bubblewrap, not something you’d use for storage or want to keep. I’m talking a 12”x12”x8” unmarked cardboard box. The firearm was wrapped in a plastic bag. The first thing I noticed was the welds on it are huuuuuge and some are even porous. *I* don’t care too much but some people might. Even LEINADs don’t have welds like mine. I immediately shot some oil into the action and fired a few Sten mags through it. It functioned absolutely flawlessly on assorted 9mm I had floating around the bottom of an ammo can. Brass, steel, and aluminum round ball. It choked on one 147gr flat nose I had missed while sorting the ammo out.
Accuracy was acceptable for what it is, but here is the worst part about the firearm I have noticed: the magazine release is nearly impossible to operate. It is made out of some injection molded polymer and is as sharp as can be. In fact every edge on this gun is sharp. But magazines almost jam into the gun including the MPA polymer magazine they include. I found the easiest way to release a magazine was to flip the gun upside down, use one hand to push in the button and your other hand to pull the mag. The magazine release is held captive by the grip with a pin, there are no tabs on the grip frame to pin the release to. This makes all aftermarket magazine releases that allow you to get some leverage or more surface area on your thumb not able to be used easily. You’ll have to either weld tabs onto your grip frame or modify your grip/new release to get something else installed. Personally, I will pin and epoxy something onto the end of the release to give myself a larger release for leverage, or maybe try tuning the magazine release spring some.
Everything else is pretty standard it seems. It has absolutely zero trigger slap. I think for sub $500 it’s worth looking into if you can live with hard magazine changes and butt ugly welds. Old MPA930s and Cobray Mac 11/Nines are every bit of $1k so this does fill a void in a collection. Again, no failures of any kind with all types of ball ammo and it fed from multiple different untested Sten magazines perfectly. Now, for pictures. I have micrometers on hand and can take measurements of anything if requested. Velocity sells every small part on their site for a reasonable price and also offer a 1 year warranty on their guns.
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