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These things have been out for years and there's no reviews, no data from classes, nor adoptions of the design by depts or agencies, no?
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That's good they are coming out with spares soon. If I had to go piston right now it would either be LMT or Barrett.
I thought I saw something from SHOT about them having some SBRs.
Can you buy just an upper from Barrett?
Yeah, I remember hearing about these things....what, 3 years ago? More? I wouldn't even come close to considering it having been truly out for years until it's been out with spare parts directly available to the user for years. And not in "kit" form. Indi-freaking-vidual spare parts. Until they can do that, it's a jumped-up Ruger piston gun.
Send it back to the factory for routine maintenance? Sure, and I should send my running shoes back to New Balance whenever I break a shoelace. It's a gun, not an engagement ring setting.....
ANYthing that is available for purchase without supply-support available and already in place, you're not a customer to them, just a revenue stream. "...parts list in the fall" my bleeding piles... Should've had that before the first gun was ever commercially sold. "Well, we didn't want to start anything until we knew what breaks, hurrrrrr..." or whatever. Horsecrap. It's a military-centric company applying a gov't weapons-procurement-program approach (where they've been allowed to get away with it for so long that it's institutionalized...and not unique to Barrett in any way) to the commercial market, and for the life of me I wouldn't know if or how they make any money doing it, were it not for P.T. Barnum's Razor: "There's a sucker born every minute."
Even AFTER they bother to (maybe!) get all their crap in one bag, it'd be foolish to buy into it. If they didn't care enough to get the ducks in a row on the front end, there's no warm-fuzzy to be had in regard to their willingness or ability to support the commercial product on the back end.
That's America, these days: no time to do things right from the start, but plenty of time to spend fixing f**k-ups later on.