Oh man. I like it! The 'homeboys' would eat. that. up.
Luckily, the fad of every gang member wanting MACs has long since passed, if it was ever really true anyway. It always smelled like a media creation to generate desire for banning them, because MACs would get pictured on the news a lot and be featured as a crime gun in every other movie with an urban setting. The reality has and always will be that criminals prefer small and or cheap guns.
i had the normal size one and it was clunky and unreliable (but looked really cool and was fun to shoot!).
Well, which brand did you have? I'm mostly just curious, because if it was "unreliable" the brand doesn't matter too much. The "unreliable" line is by far the #1 negative thing I hear about MACs. It's total misinformation. When I shot my first M-11 for the first time, it wouldn't feed reliably, and I did the same bonehead thing everybody else does and concluded it was the gun's fault. I did some checking and found that MACs like a thin coating of oil on the inside of the upper
and on the bolt, as opposed to being dry or just being wiped down with an oily patch or something. Boom, problem solved and it hasn't been an issue since. This started getting maddening when I noticed that EVERY used MAC I've ever seen at stores and gun shows has been dry as the sahara. Oh, about 98% of gun owners feed me the "unreliable" line at some point if MACs ever come up in a conversation. When NON MAC owners do it, I deduct IQ points about them in my mind for being so quick to repeat,
old, 3rd hand, negative rumors. The tendency of the gun community to do this is incredible to behold. I talked to this old dealer at a recent gun show about Hi Points. He made a negative comment that just sounded a little ancient in it's origins, so I asked him how long ago it was that he had these problems. He replied that it was Hi Point's first year or so in business. Unfortunately, people refuse to update their information, so when I hear something negative about a gun, I've learned to treat it as nonsense unless it happened TO THE ONE CLAIMING IT, within the last few months.
When you see the BG through all three of the little holes, pull the trigger.
That's about right, but I never thought of MACs as "aiming" weapons even though they are surprisingly accurate because of the 6 inch barrel (on a full size 9) that is
stationary (one of the reasons Makarovs are so consistently accurate).
while it looks cool, whats the point??
I'm always kind of amused at how many gun owners don't "get" the need or the "point" to the MAC design. They apply a rather narrow judgement process, that accomodates the most common way of thinking, with kind of a "one size should fit all" mentality that our society has.
MACs are not one size fits all, and our society has a lot of trouble accepting things that are not desired or "needed" by 50% of the herd. Independent movies are shunned unless and until they meet with the approval of enough people to become a fad. Good has become synonmous with "popular." Instead of judging right and wrong, people are more concerned with whether something is considered "normal," meaning, what everyone else is doing (the result of years of destructive principles of raw democracy). MACs fit a few situations very well, but in some situations
not at all. MACs and UZIs fit what I call, the "three Cs":
Close quarters combat, high
Capacity, and are intentionally designed with extra weight to aid in
Controllability while going through that extra capacity.
