Sneak peak at GSG's FACTORY gsg16 9.25 barrel.

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Sooo.... yea. I just found out this is a thing. Some of the guys from GSG have caught on to the 9" barrel fad. I read in the comments that the barrels would be 9.25" long with a possible threaded adapter. It would be interesting to see if they will show up in Canada.


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That's got my attention. I just can't bring myself to invest $1k+ into a plastic gun to get it to where I want it to be, but if these came in around the current price of the other model that everyone is swapping barrels on I would be all over it. Not sure what the interest in a threaded barrel is all about though, I've never understood the need for a muzzle device on a .22lr, but to each their own.
 
this reminds me of the people rushing to dlask to get non-rest barrel for their restricted EVO 3.

a year later factory offered non-rest rifle at hundreds cheaper.
 
jacotsmith said:
That's got my attention. I just can't bring myself to invest $1k+ into a plastic gun to get it to where I want it to be, but if these came in around the current price of the other model that everyone is swapping barrels on I would be all over it. Not sure what the interest in a threaded barrel is all about though, I've never understood the need for a muzzle device on a .22lr, but to each their own.
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Probably to cater to European customers that can use suppressors, I assume they picked that configuration to make it available to other markets and add features.
 
Hope they also offer it from the factory with a fixed stock to make it NR, stock in the photo folds and puts it under the minimum OAL for NR when folded even on a 16.25" barrel
 
terBC said:
Hope they also offer it from the factory with a fixed stock to make it NR, stock in the photo folds and puts it under the minimum OAL for NR when folded even on a 16.25" barrel
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In the replies I was reading on Facebook, currently they have pinned and glued the stock to be non restricted for Canada. Sounds kind of like a gimmick but l'm sure it will change soon enough.
 
jhedsy said:
In the replies I was reading on Facebook, currently they have pinned and glued the stock to be non restricted for Canada. Sounds kind of like a gimmick but l'm sure it will change soon enough.
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The CFP specifically told my friend that gluing a folding stock doesn't work to change it to NR, they basically said if its designed to be a folding stock it is a folding stock regardless of what modifications you do to it. He had inquired about a 10/22 in a Nomad stock with an aftermarket barrel that brought it to restricted length. He ended up selling the aftermarket barrel, because the original barrel was long enough to keep it NR.

There seems to be at least one example of precedence in this too - IRG was bringing in Keltec CMR30's with stocks that could only collapse about half way, that way they couldn't be collapsed far enough to make them R. However, there is no NR FRT for these guns that I can see, and for some unexplained reason they stopped offering that product to us. I believe Dlask also tried to do the same sort of thing, but the lab told them no, its not good enough and they won't reclassify R guns to NR simply because they pinned the stock. (See Post 62 Here:https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...estricted-Kel-Tec-CMR-30-Anyone?highlight=cmr)

That said, I've yet to hear of anyone actually getting charged for having a folding stock that was modified to not fold, and this was ~5 years ago that my friend contacted the lab. I had the emails from the firearms tech, but they were in my university email which I no longer have access to.
 
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jhedsy said:
Lots of rifles are plastic.... But I know what you mean. They are still a lot of fun though!
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For a $500 gun it’s a load of fun!!

Yes there is a lot of plastic but not enough people would pay $1,200 for range plinker with more metal.
I’d buy another one with with 9 in if it’s same price as current one
 
Suther said:
The CFP specifically told my friend that gluing a folding stock doesn't work to change it to NR, they basically said if its designed to be a folding stock it is a folding stock regardless of what modifications you do to it. He had inquired about a 10/22 in a Nomad stock with an aftermarket barrel that brought it to restricted length. He ended up selling the aftermarket barrel, because the original barrel was long enough to keep it NR.

There seems to be at least one example of precedence in this too - IRG was bringing in Keltec CMR30's with stocks that could only collapse about half way, that way they couldn't be collapsed far enough to make them R. However, there is no NR FRT for these guns that I can see, and for some unexplained reason they stopped offering that product to us. I believe Dlask also tried to do the same sort of thing, but the lab told them no, its not good enough and they won't reclassify R guns to NR simply because they pinned the stock. (See Post 62 Here:https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/for...estricted-Kel-Tec-CMR-30-Anyone?highlight=cmr)

That said, I've yet to hear of anyone actually getting charged for having a folding stock that was modified to not fold, and this was ~5 years ago that my friend contacted the lab. I had the emails from the firearms tech, but they were in my university email which I no longer have access to.
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I think GSG is trying to keep them as non restricted in the first place. But, I do agree that they should just have a solid stock to avoid any issues. It's possible that the pictures I posted are of prototypes. Just look at the charging handle :O
 
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