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+1 for a carbine (along the lines of the old Camp carbines or modern Hi-Point ones, not necessarily an AR style) with interchangeable magwells.
Honestly wouldn't be that hard. Separate block with a couple screws. Magwells would be adjusted for angle and depth.

.22 conversions of more carry-centered guns. Again, perfectly possible in most cases. I for one would be happier to buy a conversion than a whole other gun.

Ah, if I still had my workshop with my mill and lathe...
 
Lever action 9mm, 40S&W, 45ACP, and 380ACP carbine modeled after the Marlin 336.

SA/DA revolver modelled after the SAA. All the retro and modern together.

22 Magnum pistol along the lines of the Curve or TCP.

A Chiappa M6 with all of the caliber adaptors.

Bring back the Handi-Rifle
 
bullseye308 said:
An affordable UZI(for us broke folks)
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Ahhhhh, be careful what you wish for.....the semi auto, closed bolt Uzi's look cool, but the 16" barrel makes them horribly unbalanced. Also, because they have not one, but two heavy springs to compress (the original doesn't have a firing pin spring) they only run right with very hot, expensive, ammo. The sights are, ummm, "challenging" as well.
On the upside, mine was shockingly accurate- 2" at 50yd all day.
I had an Uzi capgun as a kid, and I so wanted to like this gun, but I couldn't afford to feed it tons of 124gr hollow points just to have a fun range session.....it had to go. :(
 
bearcreek said:
I answered your question. Some of the suggestions in this thread like a "traditional" styled semi auto, a 32 ACP Glock or a bolt action 9mm I don't think are likely to happen because of lack of interest. Other suggestions, like larger straight wall catridge bolt actions or a Glock 19ish single stack pistol I think are far more likely. So no, my statement did not apply to all the suggestions in this thread. Even people in the commie states generally want semi autos that get as close to the unmolested version as possible. That's why you have guns like the Ares SCR. It gets around the pistol grip prohibition nonsense without looking quite as goofy as the Thordsen, while at the same time getting as close as possible to a regular AR.
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If that's your point, it sure differs from your earlier statement of

It's about what the customers want. I think there's probably a very small number of people who would be interested in something like that, making it a probable losingproposition for the manufacturer who tried it.
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My original input for the thread was wanting more traditional stock semi auto rifles.

You said there wasn't a market for them.

I mentoned thordsen and the like. Which take no redesign of the rifle it self to use as a way to show there is a demand for more traditional stocked semi auto rifles.

You said thats because there's a better ROI for plastic parts than rifles.

Now, in some odd way to try to save face that your point was valid in regards to there being no sizeable market etc, youve just made the case that there is a market for them ala the SCR which did require design changes to the basic rifle design in order to make a semi auto rifle with a traditional stock.


Keep moving the goal post and I'll keep calling it out.
 
danez71 said:
Keep moving the goal post and I'll keep calling it out.
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I told myself a while back that I needed to stop trying to argue with folks online over stuff that didn't matter. Looks like I fell into old habits for a bit. This is supposed to be a fun thread about guns we wish were made. I'm not going to discuss this further.
 
A couple people mentioned interchangeable magwells..... that is a cool feature of the Just Right Carbine; interchangeable glock and m&p magwells

They also offer caliber conversions and conversions to go from quad rail to easy packable take down versions.

Kudos to them.
 
Had a 10-round magazine existed, I'd still have my Deerfield ... but it didn't, and I don't.
 
everydefense said:
Oh, and a 9mm carbine with an optional magwell for CZ 75 magazines!
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bassjam said:
I have heard (though I haven't verified) that a Sub2000 with P226 magwell will also accept 75b magazines.

https://www.thektog.org/threads/kel-tec-sub-2000-with-cz75-magazine-compatibility.265162/

You're welcome!
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Yes, I had read about that a while back, but wasn't sure how reliable that option was since it wasn't designed for CZ mags, specifically. According to those comments in the link you shared, it works perfectly. I may have to look more seriously into that, especially since that is probably our only option, seeing as CZ made a 9mm carbine (the Scorpion) whose mags are NOT interchangable with the CZ 75, from what I can tell(?).
 
everydefense said:
Yes, I had read about that a while back, but wasn't sure how reliable that option was since it wasn't designed for CZ mags, specifically. According to those comments in the link you shared, it works perfectly. I may have to look more seriously into that, especially since that is probably our only option, seeing as CZ made a 9mm carbine (the Scorpion) whose mags are NOT interchangable with the CZ 75, from what I can tell(?).
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My buddy has a Scorpion so I’ve had a good opportunity to look at the mags, they are certainly different than the 75b.

That thread is enough for me to start looking for a Sub2000. Apparently you can convert mag wells as too as long as they don’t take Glock mags (because of the different angle). Unfortunately around here everyone seems to be selling Glock only Sub2000’s for good prices, and ones that take Beretta’s or S&W’s mags are $100 more.
 
illinoisburt said:
Definitely +1 on the 45acp!

Would that could scale up a Marlin 60 to a tube fed delayed blowback 45ACP as well. That would be a fantastic little field gun with 10-12 rounds on deck. I don't think a tilt lock would be too challenging to engineer.
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They'd have to engineer a loading gate and a spiral mag tube like the old Remington Model 41,but not a showstopper, and it would look awesome too.
 
Thought of another one I'd like to see, a carbine based on the Ruger Standard model, akin to the Buckmark carbine. While I can see the downsides myself, I always thought it would make a nifty piece.
 
RedlegRick,

Did you ever see one of the little Unique pistol/carbine sets? The French made a midsized .22 pistol that could be stripped of its slide group and the receiver group popped into a full stocked rifle barreled unit. As a 'ute I turned down the rifle portion and a lead on the pistol as I feared it to be a violation of NFA34 and since the "inter-web" was not then even a gleam in Al Gore's eyes could not find out anything about them. Guy had sold the rifle parts to a friend but kept the pistol. These things in essence worked just like the carbine conversions for 1911s and Glocks that sold like hotcakes last decade until folks figured out how much they weighed and that they could not be modified with shorter stocks and such.

I wish IDA and wish I could find a set at a reasonable price these days.

"shot over....."

-kBob (once in the long past a 13A)
 
kBob said:
RedlegRick,

Did you ever see one of the little Unique pistol/carbine sets? The French made a midsized .22 pistol that could be stripped of its slide group and the receiver group popped into a full stocked rifle barreled unit. As a 'ute I turned down the rifle portion and a lead on the pistol as I feared it to be a violation of NFA34 and since the "inter-web" was not then even a gleam in Al Gore's eyes could not find out anything about them. Guy had sold the rifle parts to a friend but kept the pistol. These things in essence worked just like the carbine conversions for 1911s and Glocks that sold like hotcakes last decade until folks figured out how much they weighed and that they could not be modified with shorter stocks and such.

I wish IDA and wish I could find a set at a reasonable price these days.

"shot over....."

-kBob (once in the long past a 13A)
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I once owned the upper half of just that beast, back when I had my collection of .22 rifles. Got it for nothing while cleaning out a house, but never managed to find the matching pistol/lower before it was stolen.
 
An affordable double barrel shotgun with chrome lined bores and double triggers.
A reissue Winchester Model 52
A reissue steel frame Beretta Model 70
 
It’s not really along the lines of everyone else, but a Benelli Montefeltro in 16ga on a true scaled frame would be pretty “sweet”.
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Amen to that! But not only Benelli - I would love to see 16 gauge returning, especially in side-by-sides.
 
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