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- From: vojak@icebucket.stortek.com (Bill Vojak)
- Newsgroups: rec.guns
- Subject: Re: AMT backup advice/instructions needed
- Message-ID: <9301251801.AA00398@stortek.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 01:52:03 GMT
- Sender: magnum@mimsy.umd.edu
- Organization: Storage Technology Corp.
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- Approved: gun-control@cs.umd.edu
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- Regarding AMT backups/automags
- davidst@microsoft.com (David Steckler) writes:
-
- #"Some work and some don't and you don't know which yours is until you
- #try it out" is what someone on this newsgroup told me. I never could get
- #mine to shoot more than two rounds in a row without a jam.
-
- #Well, any gun which has the above reputation doesn't instill a great deal
- #of confidence. I decided that, even if I could get mine working correctly,
- #I didn't trust it to save my life, so I bought a Walther PPK/S and have
- #been very happy with it.
-
- #I personally could never recommend anyone using an AMT Backup because of
- #it's reliability problems, not only the one's I had, but stories from others
- #too. I've heard that the Mustang is decent and I can heartily recommend
- #the Walther PPK.
-
- I was hoping that this AMT thread would go away, since I have posted
- this story before. Unfortunatly I have noticed several people asking
- about the AMT Automags & Backups.
-
- Well, as I've posted before. I owned a AMT automag several years
- ago. The first day I owned it, it blew up in my hand when the
- slide crushed a live round instead of chambering it. The surgery
- on my "trigger finger" cost $1000+. It also cost AMT some $$ to
- settle with me. . . To this day, (5+ years later), I still only
- have 60-70% strength/feeling in my right trigger finger. I also
- couldn't shoot a semi-auto for over a year after the accident because
- of the flinch that I developed because of it. Maybe that's why
- I now still prefer revolvers over semi-autos.
-
- Bill Vojak
- Bill_Vojak@stortek.com
- NRA, ILA,
- Colorado Firearms Collation
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- The CBS Nightly Propaganda With Dan Rather. (RATHER NOT!)
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