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Used DE's can have the gas system buggered up with all sorts of fouling. If someone shot lead SWC's thru it, there can be lead in the gas port which is pretty hard to remove and essentially ruins the function of the gun--they're gas operated sort of like AR's and other rifles.
It's not the end of the world, they can be stripped, given a bath in a variety of solvents, then refinished and reassembled to clean out the gas system, but then you're spending extra cash.
Most of the malfunctions in DE's come from people using the wrong kind of ammo and fouling the gas system and you have to be super careful about what you buy used.
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OK, so not all plastic guns are bad
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