Wouldn't accept it, even as a gift.
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Free! Hells yeah! Anything! Even a Low-Grade Sharps replica, if free! 
Some guy offers me a Prohib without paperwork, it'll be reduced to legal parts and a half pound of very harmless scrap before it gets inside my house. Have angle grinder, will travel. But that is an unlikely scenario anyways, so nobody should get all butthurt over my enthusiasm. Just sayin'.
Having (many times!) stopped along the roadside to pick up tools, tarps, tiedowns, and the like, I have little shame when it comes to free stuff, even if it gets binned later.
Life is good, when you can afford to be picky!
Life has more opportunities, if one keeps an open mind!
Cheers
Trev
Some guy offers me a Prohib without paperwork, it'll be reduced to legal parts and a half pound of very harmless scrap before it gets inside my house. Have angle grinder, will travel. But that is an unlikely scenario anyways, so nobody should get all butthurt over my enthusiasm. Just sayin'.
Having (many times!) stopped along the roadside to pick up tools, tarps, tiedowns, and the like, I have little shame when it comes to free stuff, even if it gets binned later.
Life is good, when you can afford to be picky!
Life has more opportunities, if one keeps an open mind!
Cheers
Trev
1873shootist
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No gun collection is complete without at least one plastic pistol.
I have too much plastic in my life already. Give me blued or stainless steel and walnut or rosewood any day.
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handofzeus
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I don't get why you have such a hate on for STI JP. They are high quality, extremely well made guns. I have 1,000's of rounds through my Trojan without a single hiccup.
As far as the so called "plastic" mainspring housing and the trigger go....Well they are both actually polymer and are supposed to be, not just to save $.
The trigger is considered one of the finest available, as the crispest pulls need to have the lowest mass trigger. You can buy a $4000 1911 that comes with the STI polymer trigger, because it works.
As far as the mainspring housing goes, the polymer one works just fine and shaves an ounce or two off of the total weight. This matters to people that shoot competitively
They have crept up quite a bit lately but back when you could buy a Trojan for $1300-1400 they were considered a great buy for a gun that came very close to the performance of entry level custom 1911's like the Les Baer Premier II for about 60% of the price.
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I'd take just about anything for free, but if it was illegal, I'd have to assume it was a sting operation and turn it down.
If we're talking just plain ugly guns, there are a few tricked out movie guns that qualify, for example the "Man from Uncle" pistol that I understand started out as a p-38, or Han Solo's blaster.
If we're talking about ugly guns that really exist, they don't come much uglier than the Borchardt, but I'll take it, or just about anything else with a 5-figure price tag, for free. OK, there are uglier ones, like some of the so-called "Apache" pistols (named for the French gangsters, not the tribe). There's something not quite right about a revolver with brass knuckles and a bayonet, but I'd probably accept one just for the sheer novelty of it.
If we're talking just plain ugly guns, there are a few tricked out movie guns that qualify, for example the "Man from Uncle" pistol that I understand started out as a p-38, or Han Solo's blaster.
If we're talking about ugly guns that really exist, they don't come much uglier than the Borchardt, but I'll take it, or just about anything else with a 5-figure price tag, for free. OK, there are uglier ones, like some of the so-called "Apache" pistols (named for the French gangsters, not the tribe). There's something not quite right about a revolver with brass knuckles and a bayonet, but I'd probably accept one just for the sheer novelty of it.
