The Masterpiece Arms "9mm Mini Defender" is out!

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I think it's kinda cool-looking, I just seriously don't understand the purpose of the 2 extra holes in the rear sight.

When basted with a sugar & cinnamon paste, they are sweet guns.

I still can't determine a single advantage that this caricature of a weapon has over a quality high-capacity semi-automatic service pistol.
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Intimidation factor, baby. One look at these bad muthas and the bad guys simply drop everything and run away as fast as they can, while crying and whimpering.
 
You might just see some of the .45acp's in a select fire version appearing in the U.S.armed forces!
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You might just see the new Marine dress uniform include a pink tutu, but I think that's about as likely as seeing one of these M-10 wannabes in service use.
 
Even if the armed forces bought 2 zillion Ingram type designs that wouldn't, in and of itself, make the neutered semi-auto version make one whit more sense to those of us not enamored of guns that look like something they're not.

Sometimes, the entire point of something is lost when the primary (in this case: full auto) functionality is removed. What you're left with is something that looks "bad", but really isn't and still carries all the engineering baggage and compromises associated with its full-auto / low-bid incarnation.

The automotive equivalent might be a full-on Indy racer looking thing with the motor from a Vespa scooter. To some people, it will scream "BAD"; to others it will scream "POSEUR" equally loudly.

If "looking bad" and "making a grabber wet themselves" can actually be considered selling points, why stop at cloning a Cobray? How about a semi-auto legal version of a GE minigun? Now that would look mean.
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It's a free market, and I'll respect anyone's choice to purchase the thing. I even wish MPA well as a US firearms manufacturer...

But I'm 100% with WA and Handy on this one.
 
Where can I get this semiauto GE minigun!??

I've already got an extension cord.







(Is anyone else getting a sense of deja vu between one poster on this thread and the dialogue from Napolean Dynamite?)
 
Semi GE minigun? I was thinking of plugging 5 barrels and grafting a mini-30 receiver into the back of the one left over.

But upon reflection, you're right: definitely cooler if we keep the electric operation. ATF-approved current interrupter and interlock seems like a nice summer project. We could rig a Honda generator to a back-pack and look like Predator IV.
 
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You know you are dealing with a quality product from a manufacturer who knows the difference between what a "clip" is and what a "magazine" is.

Apparently, that would NOT be Master Piece Arms. However, the incorrect terminology combined with the refinements of their guns with the look of a shop class project unsupervised, coupled with an excellent online presentation of their product lines produced in freshman computer graphics 101, screams out the fact that such a product is for only but the best of gun experts.
 
from Websters dictionary.....
Main Entry: clip
Function: noun
1 : any of various devices that grip, clasp, or hook
2 : a device to hold cartridges for charging the magazines of some rifles; also : a magazine from which ammunition is fed into the chamber of a firearm
3 : a piece of jewelry held in position by a clip
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Oh the pain is intense!
 
Congratulations. You and your friends' efforts to make the language less precise has succeeded admirably.

See what you can do about getting "ain't" into full acceptance.
 
And heres the entry from the world renowned Cambridge dictionary.Another expert source.
clip (GUN PART)
noun [C]
a container which is fastened to a gun, from which bullets go into the gun for firing
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Ouch! I cant stand it anymore.
 
Webster's isn't written by shooters, doctors, lawyers or otherwise.

Therefore Webster's commonly misuses words and definitions on specific subjects. An engineer is likely to be upset with their meanings for some engineering terminologies. As I'm sure a mechanic would be upset with their definitions for certain mechnical parts/mechanisms.

The fact that the company in question used the wrong term, even if supported by a dictionary, isn't comforting. I want to buy from the company with experience and knowledge - not the one that looks up definitions of gun parts in Webster's.

Perhaps the company felt that the gun was more easily marketed to "gangsta" types who are only familiar with the word clip. That also inspires no legitimacy.
 
The terms "clip' and "magazine" have been interchangeable for more decades than any of us have been around.Todays sticklers cant get past the Garand and its definition of "clip".If you cant handle the truth about "clips" and "magazines" thats your choice.Dont force it on the rest of us---PLEASE!
 
I'll see your cyber-dictionaries, and raise you one Wiki:

WikiMag

A magazine (also called a mag or commonly but technically incorrectly a clip) is ...
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And with that, I humbly submit that this thread has veered totally off into language evolution studies - and benefited greatly thereby.
 
If a magizine is a clip then what is a clip?

A clip is a clip and a magizine is a magizine. If you put a magizine next to a clip in a box you would not have two magizines in a box. Why; because they are different.

The fact that they use the word clip the way someone without basic knowledge of guns would dose not insprire confidence in their abilities. I believe that perhaps we can take this as well as their awesome website to be a good indicatior of the quality of their products.
 
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