
Originally Posted by
Arik
I do a lot of shopping at a store that deals in 3types of firearms
1) New guns
2) Surplus weapons and ammo like Mausers, Nagants. Along with Century AKs, FALs, Uzis...
3) Police trade in guns and police impound guns.
I often buy Police guns from them such as Glocks and S&W steel autos along with my Colt A3. It's a nice way to get quality arms at much cheaper prices. Anyhow, I walk in today to pick up some ammo and of course take a look around. They got in about 6 ARs, all DPMS's A3's and all have the "restricted law enforcement use only" stamped into the lower. All looked to have heavy barrels. What gives? I fact just from looking at them they looked like Colt A3. Does DPMS really undercut Colts prices that much that it's worth for the leo dpt to buy them instead of Colts? Or are these DPMS different (quality) from what they sell to the public?
Unfortunately a lot of small departments end up buying DPMS crap because of the huge cost difference. The department I work for and past ones as well issued DPMS guns. I have had to go over them and replace certain parts and send some guns back to get them to run to a barely acceptable manner. I carry all personally owned weapons.
Pat
Last edited by Alaskapopo; 03-15-12 at 01:54.
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