agsalaska said:
Hey Alte I totally agree with everything that you said. I have a very, very narrow range of striker fired semi autos that doesn't go outside of Glock and Kahr. Maybe that will change one day. But if one of them were the introduction handguns I would also already own one.
There is a reason we have better cartridges than the commies. It's the variety that drives the innovation. See the 6.5 creed and .300 BLK as the most recent examples.
I think that is true to an extent. These examples are more our ability to have the funds to afford "innovative" calibers / cartridges that fill a small niche demand.
There isn't millions of people who actively shoot long range competitions (6.5 creed). Just selling the rifles doesn't mean much if the average person only shoots 50-100 rounds a year. And doesn't make the round economical for mass production. Especially when the concept is being sold to a group that predominantly loads their own bullets.
There aren't millions of people who conduct close quarter drills or shoot suppressed inside 100yards regularly (.300 blk). The military drove this, not retail.
The communists can't maintain what they have. They then can't also waste recourses and equipment on niche rounds that don't provide benefit to the greater good (population).
My slight disagreement is that new niche wildcat rounds aren't truly innovative. It's just polishing an existing concept. Unless we start doing something actually revolutionary different (black powder to metal cartridges, or smooth bore to rifling, etc.) we're really over inflating what is taking place.
[/url] 
