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  • Axxe55

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    Not ignorant: I've looked at several Uberti guns in person and they all look like junk in fit and finish. I'm impressed with Beretta and Benelli shotguns and they are Italian. I don't think the Italians copy cowboy guns well. When it comes to fine art, olive oil, pasta, shotguns and sausages stuffed in animal intestines, the Italians can hardly be beat.

    Hmmm....how silly of me to argue with an expert on guns.
     

    d_holliday

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    Hmmm....how silly of me to argue with an expert on guns.
    55, I never claimed to be no gun pundit, I just calls things the way I sees them in my humble opinion. If your Italian-made gun, including any gun shaped like a cowboy gun, gives you great joy, price notwithstanding, then may she be blessed by the Roman god of fire and steel, Vulcan.
     

    oldag

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    The Colt AR-15 brand is an emotional buy. There is a certain degree of emotion behind fancying some guns. I have an emotional attachment to Savage Model 99 coz granddad owned and hunted deer with one before my time. The 99 is the most classic American deer gun ever and lever-action is patently an American style. Winchester/Marlin/Henry lever jobs don't have the sleek racy lines of the hammerless/mag-tube-less Savage. Too, the genuine Colt AR-15 is a time-honored classic like a shoebox Chevy of the 1950's.
    I guess I place functionality/reliability at the top of my criteria for firearms.

    Others may not.
     

    Axxe55

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    55, I never claimed to be no gun pundit, I just calls things the way I sees them in my humble opinion. If your Italian-made gun, including any gun shaped like a cowboy gun, gives you great joy, price notwithstanding, then may she be blessed by the Roman god of fire and steel, Vulcan.

    Holliday, I have been around guns for most of my entire life. Have and do own quite a few.

    But I'll defer to your expertise of "cheap" Italian replicas. I just know differently. I don't usually listen to experts anyways.

    Have a nice day.
     

    d_holliday

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    I guess I place functionality/reliability at the top of my criteria for firearms.

    Others may not.
    When it comes to a gun your life or your family's life may count on someday, god forbid, that consideration alone is really what counts the most indeed. I'm sure any reputable non-Colt-branded AR, like Bushmaster, could meet that purpose quite well. I had the genuine Colt AR-15 in mind as a personal fun gun I'd like to own, show off and brag about to my buddies. Some might want an AR strictly as a serious defense weapon so it's wise to choose one well-made brand notwithstanding. I prefer a police pump shotgun or a good handgun for personal security. Some preppers like to keep an AR-type rifle for when the ___ hits the fan too. It might come in handy in case we, god forbid, are ever invaded by Communists. My Remington 870 police pump does not make me feel grossly under-armed for home security.

    Was Stephen Willeford's AR-style gun a Colt? I don't know, but God bless him, his gun and all those armed American citizens who stepped in and protected those in their community in the moment of danger:
    https://www.foxnews.com/us/texas-ch...e-a-good-guy-with-gun-takes-down-mass-shooter

    “If having more guns in society worked to deter shootings, then America would have the lowest rate of gun violence of any developed country,” Avery Gardiner, the co-president of the Brady Campaign, said in a statement provided to Fox News. “Put simply, the myth that the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun is unsupported by facts or research. The killer in this mass shooting should never have had access to a gun in the first place, given his criminal record.”

    That is because Avery, you idiot, many places in America are "no-gun zones" where good people are not even allowed to have guns there in the first place to do any good. Hardened criminals and bat__-crazy people who are hell-bent on wasting a bunch of innocent folks are drawn to these places like a magnet and have no respect for the no-gun signs posted there anyway. Don't ever go to a gaming establishment or a polling place on election day in some states: it is a felony to possess a gun there in some states and you are therefore defenseless against any potential mass shooter there. Guns are not violent, people are. An armed society only works when there are no anti-gun signs and no anti-gun laws to inhibit it. It's not the number of guns, it's having the IMMEDIATE lawful access to guns in time of need that works to make society safe inside the home and outside the home. A billion guns locked up in Fort Knox will do nothing to save you if you are out on the street, your hands are empty and a bad guy with a weapon approaches you.

    "More guns" and "gun violence" are the watchwords of the antis.
     
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    zackmars

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    Look at the brownells retro options if thats what you want. With colt, you are going to pay for it, for a gun that is no more correct than any other build.

    That is, if you are ok with an A1 vs an A2
     

    Mowingmaniac 24/7

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    " The Colt AR-15 brand is an emotional buy. "

    The Dr. Phil of guns...is also known as the re-incarnated hillbilly who is gleefully laughing some of you, just not all...
     
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