Why is this gun so cheap? I understand Glock inflates their prices a bit for the sake of their brand, but PSA can't make a clone for half the price can they? What corners were cut to get that price point? Would it have remotely similar longevity?
PSA Dagger
>what corners were cut
It's a Glock GEN3, moron.
>ANOTHER fricking glock clone
Who gives a frick anymore
Who keeps buy
>copy of 25 year old gun is cheap
Wowee
Plastic is cheap, anon. The production cost of a Glock is around $200 in today's money, with inflation.
No glock holster compatibility that's a pretty frick big corner
Components are made in China and assembled in US.
You guys for real or is this just a shitty forced joke?
honestly most cheap guns are probably a lot of mystery meat so I wouldnt be surprised
It's probably true. Just as the case with Remington 870s under Freedom Group.
Frames are probably made in house, slides as well I'm sure. But all the frame parts and slide parts are most definitely made in China. Maybe even the barrel (but I could see that being made in house as well).
Nevertheless, as a "frick it, $300" gun, it's probably great. But if the goal is anything serious, maybe it'll be fine, who knows. I certainly wouldn't trust my life on it (although I'd say the same about any Glock).
china can't export gun parts to the US, unless you count pointless shit like springs
You are fricking moronic
Reality is more mundane than it's all from China. Probably an in-house p80 frame with blank components bought in mass bulk from aftermarket. Probably from brownells.
If you're a retailer you're gonna get a retail mass shipment discount.
Lots of gun parts are made there aside from the receiver of course. And just get shipped here in bulk to be assembled
>Would it have remotely similar longevity?
oh yeah, totally bro
A Stoeger STR-9, which is also a Gen 3 Glock (and has a nice barrel made by Beretta) can be had at $200 after rebate.
Cant take glock mags though
True. My ex wanted to get a handgun and she’s on a budget so I can up with the STR-9C but mags are hard to find and it comes with only 1. I found some spares for sale for $35 vs the insane GB/eBay listings.
Taurus is a better deal, the G2/3 series is surprisingly well supported
Plastic like TASER.
>unit cost == <$100
Imagine getting glock leg and it's not even real glock leg.
Glocks are incredibly cheap to produce, they make money hand over fist on those fricking things. The fact that they charge $600 a pop is no indication of their production cost. PSA has merely elected to nott make as much profit per-pistol as glock does.
yeah but I would still rather trust my life to a Glock
To be fair, Glocks are not sold to institutional customers for 600$. That is the price moronic civilians pay because they saw things in the movies or some army uses it.
show me where the $700 is!
I fricking hate glocks. 6-700 for a shit trigger, shit sights, and mid-tier overall weapon. I don't know who I hate more though, glock for selling weapons that cost that much, which will inevitably require another few hundred to un-frick the trigger, put proper sights on it, and cut the slide for an optic without shitty plates, or the fricking israelites who sell glock clones with all those "upgrades" for a thousand+
I don't even own a PSA Dagger, but I fricking hope they make Glock inc. sweat. Frick glocks.
>babys first hobby hype item
Popular things cost more because popular, if your school board didn't drag your econ teacher out back and shoot him in the head to make room for CRT classes you'd know this. NiB Gen 3s have been cheap for over a decade now, it's your fault for not knowing how the market works.
I'm plenty aware that morons will pay moron prices, because they're moronic.
yeah i bought a brand new gen 3 for ~500 out the door.. Idk if it's fullly worth that but i did only get two magazines... so, i did have to spend that extra 30 bucks on another one to feel whole, and now I wanna get sights...
Yeah, the whole china cheap manufacture thing is kind of not true anymore. Automation is making reshoring a thing.
pretty sure theres some book one of the glock execs wrote that said it costs them about $100 to produce a glock. so it probably costs them even less to make a dagger
Probably more to make a dagger due to economy of scale at this point in glock history
Do they have plans to make a full size 17 frame?
Can't get behind it with those lower grip cutouts and mags that don't conform to the shape of the mag well opening. Looks moronic, like the mags for a different gun.
Same. It looks ridiculous, and yes, aesthetics matter to a degree.
Anyone who says they don't is lying
Extremely cheap to design + the economy of scale.
Glocks cost less than $100 to build from the ground-up. Their profit margins are insane and it's why they could afford to practically give them away to police departments when they were working on gaining a following in the 80s&90s.
Why do some brandname sneakers cost 200 bucks while some noname ones that look similar cost 50?