Posted: 10/3/2007 3:58:44 AM EDT
| I heard on talk radio this AM that in STL 2 bruthas robbed a vending machine truck driver with what appeared to be an assault rifle. I wonder what the Post will have to say about that. |
I've got one...well technically its a MAC-10, but I really don't know the difference... |
 I'll hope that's sarcasm. One is a decent gun, the other is trash.(I'll add that a MAC isn't the pinacale of guns or anything. I suppose I would accept a free one, but I wouldn't go out and buy one. But, it's leaps and bounds better than a Tec...) |
I never understood why people bash the Tec-9 series of weapons. Every one I owned or shot; ran like a sewing machine.
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A friend of mine had one for a little while. He doesn't post here, but a bunch of you know him. I was with him the first time he took it to the range, and it wouldn't fire more than 4-5 rounds before jamming. We thought it might've been bad mag(s) (he only had one or two) so he bought another new one to try. It didn't run any better with the new mag so he sold it. That's been my only experience with Tec-9s so I admit that my experience is limited, but I wasn't impressed. |
Here is a "technical" vid that sheds some light on the Tech-9. I'm told that there is some poor trigger discipline but I really didn't notice  www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPR60EqF_2o |
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I remember the first one I owned. It was the shorty without a barrel shroud that I bought at a gun show. I loaded it up and took it out to the sand pit across from the FN machine gun plant in Columbia, SC. This is where everyone in the area use to go shoot at the time (middle to late 1980's). Someone had dumped an old TV and people were using it as a target. I blasted off 36 rounds as fast as I could pull the trigger. I stuck in a fresh magazine and handed it to my (now ex) wife. She popped off a couple of rounds and handed it back to me. She said the "Sights on it sucked!". I remember looking back at her with a dumb look and saying "Sights? It has sights?" I believe that there are two types of factory magazines and they hold 20 and 36 rounds. The magazine is the heart of an auto loader. There are many types of aftermarket magazines and none of then work. I bought a mail order 50 round USA magazine for my TEC-9. It would not fit it the mag well. I thought that maybe it needed to be loaded to fit. I think I got about ten rounds in it before it turned into a ammo fountain. I think I still have that thing somewhere.  With the factory magazines and good quality ammo, the TEC-9's are bullet hoses. Do not tell my ex-wife this but she is right. The sights on it suck. I might have a rail installed on one of mine and add a red dot scope. |
Hello Gloria!!! 
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Mine looks like the one on the top...its stamped M-11 and has a detachable barrel extention with shroud. |
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