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Old August 21, 2013, 02:24 PM   #30
James K
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Hi, Skans,

About anything you can think of from trying to load .32 S&W into a .32 ACP to trying to load the rounds in magazine backwards (they kept popping back out, obviously a problem with the gun). Other problems were taking the gun apart and either losing the parts or not knowing how to put them back together.

Legitimate problems were failures to feed, fire, extract, eject, the usual. The biggest general problem was weak springs. I am sure that (like most other gun makers) the SNS companies bought their springs, but went for cheap and it took only a short time for the springs to weaken and the failures to crop up. As I have said, the designs were generally not bad. Made of decent steel machined castings and with good springs, those guns would (I think) have been good guns, but the goal was not to make good guns, it was to make guns to sell for $29.95 (or whatever it was at the time), and still have a good dealer markup. You figure what the guns actually cost, but I suspect it was around $5-6.

Jim
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