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Old January 26, 2012, 10:14 AM   #6
carguychris
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No longer in production iirc. I think they stopped producing guns in the early 90's.
I believe this is correct. The bankrupt remnants of Star and Astra were purchased in the late 90s by the Spanish government and merged together into a corporation called ASTAR, but the new entity exists on paper only, and is effectively just a holding company for what remains of its predecessors' physical assets; AFAIK it has yet to export a meaningful number of new guns to the USA.

Both companies fell victim to the problem that nearly wiped out Walther- they came into the 1980s producing dressed-up versions of designs with roots in the 1940s, the "...But We Already Have The Tooling" syndrome. Unfortunately, unlike Walther, they were unable to come up with the investment capital to retool and introduce modern (read: striker-fired polymer-frame) pistols.

Other than mags, AFAIK parts for Stars have not been produced for several years, but so many of the pistols are in circulation that parts availability is reportedly not yet a problem for recent-production guns like the B-series, P-series, Firestar, and Ultrastar. However, as with any discontinued gun from a defunct maker, this is NOT something you should purchase if you don't ever want to tinker with it.
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Last edited by carguychris; January 26, 2012 at 11:30 AM. Reason: Manufacture --> export
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