The market usually shows the acceptance level for any product through success or failure. If in demand, they'll keep making it. If no demand, they'll simply fade away.
I'm also reminded-
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I was already deep in the 'gun culture' when Glocks came along, so I remember the uproar well.
It was a guaranteed failure because people just wouldn't buy a PLASTIC gun.
They called that one right, didn't they?
I have a lot of different tastes.
I like to hunt with pretty guns. That means a sporting rifle should only have two ingredients: solid walnut and steel. I don't even like for them to have anodized aluminum parts and certainly no plastic. That became a hard standard to adhere to many years ago. EXCELLENT products like Remington shotguns and rifles have had aluminum and/or plastic parts for decades. Steel scopes can be a pain to keep from rusting under harsh conditions unless you like greasy optics.
When it comes to utilitarian and/or duty or 'battle' weapons, it is interesting to me that I seem to not really care. Plastic, aluminum, whatever. Actually, I think wood is best left off guns that serve under harsh conditions. If plastic and/or aluminum works and fills the purpose, it is doing it right.
An internet axiom seems to be that any thread, no matter how positive, can often go negative. Once turned negative, most don't recover any positivity. Conversely, a thread that starts off negatively will rarely ever turn positive. This is the one part of the universe where opposite charges do not consistently attract each other. Negative attracts negative on the internet, yet positive can also attract negative quite often!
Interesting.
Now, I'm not about to be presumptuous enough to tell people what to like.
But, I would hope that everyone would be free to discuss his firearms here, no matter what brand or type, without fear of ridicule. Exagerated repugnance about matte blue and black plastic is, to say the least, a bit dated. I don't see the need to focus on what one can dislike when it is so easily avoided.
An example is Hi-Point or whatever they currently call themselves. It is not the type of weapon that I like to own. Cheap, simple, straight blowback, cast parts. Years ago, I had the opportunity to fire some in both 9mm and 45. They worked. They worked rather well as far as reliability was concerned. OK, still NOT what I want, but I am glad that people on a very limited budget can obtain a relaible gun larger than a 25 auto. Poor folks are entitled to self defense also. I'd rather have a Hi-Point than nothing!
To each his own.
