Ugliest gun, eh? Well, looking over the posts here, Glocks seem to be winning. I'm not a Glock "lover", but I don't think they're
that ugly. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and when it comes to guns, a high reliability and/or accuracy factor(s) can do a lot to make up for bad looks.
Yeah; Glocks, Nambus, Ruger autos, the Webley-Fosbury (sp?) auto-revolver, The "Broomhandle" Mauser (I always thought it just looked wicked, not ugly) even that Godforsaken H&K VP70Z, all are pretty ugly guns, but none of them hold a candle to my all time favorite gun to hate-the
Styer GB18. This misbegotten son-of-a-boat-anchor looks like a cross between a Makarov and a deformed pregnant rat. It had the same balance properties of a reciprocating saw, and the reliability was somewhat (massively?) short of that of an Edsel. I never found out about accuracy, I couldn't get it to fire more than 2 or 3 rds without some sort of misfeed. It had every feeding malf possible. I think it was the result of the "more is better" high-capacity 9mm syndrome. 18 rds in a pistol magazine is too much. Styer only offered them for 2 or 3 years, I believe around '79 or'80. The one I saw was in '81. Good ridance says I.
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