Have you always wanted an MP5K-ish gun?- Introducing the Lusa 9mm Restricted!

Thanks Steve and crew! These look like they'll be a lot of fun.

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Looking very good!!!!!
Now why the hell is he the only one with them so far?!?!?!?!
 
i have zero experience with smgs but from what i have read/watched you need hotter ammo to run it reliably. please include the ammo you used in any range report you release to us. thanks.

If we're talking about a 1940's open-bolt, sure. I'll bet you a timmies that these things eat any safe pressure loads, modern SMG's have mostly done away with the 'won't run without +P+ nuke-loads' thing.
 
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If we're talking about a 1940's open-bolt, sure. I'll bet you a timmies that these things eat any safe pressure loads, modern SMG's have mostly done away with the 'won't run without +P+ nuke-loads' thing.

I don't know much about the 9mm SMG's yet, this Lusa is my first,... but at least with the .32 ACP Skorpions (and it's not '40's vintage), I have already heard that they DO run better with the hotter Euro ammo, like the Czech stuff. Just sayin', I don't think you can generalize that statement to all SMG's or would-be-SMG's like these. Experimentation will tell. ;-)
Cheers.
 
The vz61 does run better with hot ammo. Zero failures with S&B ammo but Winchester white box was a jam-o-matic.

Each gun I think in the semi auto SMG class is its own beast. Will have to see how these things do with a variety of ammo.
 
I don't know much about the 9mm SMG's yet, this Lusa is my first,... but at least with the .32 ACP Skorpions (and it's not '40's vintage), I have already heard that they DO run better with the hotter Euro ammo, like the Czech stuff. Just sayin', I don't think you can generalize that statement to all SMG's or would-be-SMG's like these. Experimentation will tell. ;-)
Cheers.

The Skorpion is from the 1960's, it's not what I mean when I said 'modern SMG's.' Kriss Vectors, Colt 9mm SMG's, Steyr TP9's and PS90's all run any safe ammunition you put through them. The Lusa, being a 1980's Design, is just at the beginning of the threshold for what I would call 'modern.' Also, I am not sure I'd agree with what you've heard. Skorpions eat anything.

But, like has been said, we'll see. What I do know is that for at least the last 20 years, SMG's being ammo-finnicky genuinely does hurt sales. Agencies and organizations want things that run well with anything. In the older days, there was less of a demand for this.
 
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