I'd argue not a bad name - but it's far from the first eccentric pistol can with an improved booster to reach the market, and as the market for large heavy pistols keeps moving towards micro-RDS options the need to run suppressor height iron sights stops being an actual limitation (and actually is requisite for running an RMR/Deltapoint/similar setup, not to mention very fast). More cans and more variety is awesome, but the Illusion to me looks like a product improved eccentric baffle (the brilliance in that can I'm guessing is how the recoil booster works despite the bore offset) on an existing 9mm can external set, so if performs as well as a larger volume rectangular cross-section can [Osprey] then I'm going to be beyond impressed, but sticking with a circular cross-section loses out on internal volume for the can without the manufacturing or CFD assistance simplicity of making it concentric (again, I'm impressed the booster system runs, as that's excellent design work, but from my limited perspective I don't see the end user utility for the engineering exercise). I'd rather see complete integral systems coming out (e.g. complete DPMS based pistol caliber uppers in Honey Badger configuration ???), but the Illusion-II despite being a cool looking can doesn't to me constitute a counterargument for AAC not being a frontrunner in released products at very many price ranges, if anything this is probably more to do with the time costs associated with moving a whole company moving back release dates on certain products.
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