I do not want to sound like an old man, but I do not recall so many good firearms today, that are affordable for most Americans. Excluding the surplus market, most of the cheaper stuff was < decent, in my early gun buying days. I still use the Maverick 88 for home defense and paid $179 at the Walmart in Salisbury, NC.
We were buying SKS, M1 rifles, M1 Carbines, and Makarov or FEG pistols because the stuff was affordable and worked.
Now we have $400 Extars, $250 GX4 TOROS, $375 Rock 5.7 and tons of items from PSA and other online stores and they are affordable and work. This is a wonderful time to be a gun owner and growing older.
Sootch has been saying exactly this for well over a decade now… We really are living in the Golden Age of Firearms! Enjoy it while we can Boys and Girls!
Had no clue about the new Taurus pistols because of the Sig 365s and Shields micro 9s. Read about them, but that is it. Saw a GX4 Toro XL at the LGS and took a good luck at it. BNIB it was $225. I took the gamble and bought it.
I purchased mine last week, and added a red dot (Cyelee). Replaced the back strap to the larger back strap. Easy to break down, shoots like a 365 (Sigs sights are better), and zero problems feeding or ejecting. Shot around 40rds and everything went boom and hits with the dot were easy to do. Great size pistol for edc and the price with the optic was $>400, if you have other options. Why? Not enough range time or history for these guns. Plus, you cannot ignore their history. This could be a great purchase or it could be a Sam Bowie or Ryan Leaf pick.
Shield 9mm single stack ~$237 shipped from PSA, no transfer fee from a buddy FFL of mine.
Then 3 daggers bought as frames, adding slides I liked as they were avalible or on sale.
I’ve also found a few good scores on lightly used over the last decade as well.
100% agreement on it being the golden adge of firearms!
I have noticed an increase in budget friendly dots. I have used red and green dots from Primary Arms, Holosun, Swampfox, and Cylee on pistols and carbines. The technology and battery placement are nearly identical, but not the prices, imo.
