since Hi-point firearms represent such a small part of the overall gun market (guns sold annually), why is it that i have watched around 3 felons get arrested and they all were posessing Hi-Points illegally?
Is there a connection here? Hmmmm.
And to keep everyone happy, can i hunt moose with a Hi-point?
2010-11-08T22:21:47Z
No, all of them have been either posessing illegally or already convicted felons. Im all for an affordable gun for the masses (im a 'mass' too...) but cant there be a better made one??
even the S&W sigma would be better.
2010-11-08T22:24:02Z
regarding Straw purchasers: i guess its simple capitalism...buy low and resell high. A $160 C9 probably gets them $250 clean on the street...
MJ2010-11-09T05:01:16Z
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It's a known fact that Hi Points not only function better when held sideways, gangster style, they also look better as well.
Yeah, I agree with the straw purchasers buying low and selling high.
A hi-point is the kind of gun you can afford to do a drive-by shooting with and then throw in the river if you're a street thug. It's unfortunate.
One of the reasons a Hi-point is so cheap is that the action is blow-back, the slide is just a zinc casting and there is minimal machining done to the gun. It is odd that they have a lifetime warranty for being such a semi-functional paper weight in most cases.
Idiot thugs on the street usually don't know anything about weapons either. They probably think hollow points make people explode.
I doubt most know would know the difference in value or functionality with a Hi-point, a decent Glock or an over-priced Robaugh
Well, at the hazard of getting politically flamed here ...
Because shows like COPS focus on crime linked to poverty, because there are a disproportionate number of people who make bad choices in general who are poor, and those among them that perform criminal acts essentially represent the people who make the worst choices.
So, you have stupid people, who are poor, who are making a bad choice on prime time television, getting chased down by street officers on patrol. No real "Lex Luthor" type master criminals here. Of course they are shooting Hi - Points, those are the cheapest guns you can get, and these guys don't know any better what the differences are. 20 years ago they were lifting Lorcins and Ravens off of these guys.
oh, and a Sigma would be better, and costs about 75% more than a Hi - Point.
Their cheap, it used to be the same thing with RG revolvers in the 60's and 70's, ring of fire guns (raven, jennings, bryco, phoenix arms etc) in the 80's and 90's and now hi points. I saw pics of a Boston gun buyback cache, and it was mostly junky cheapo pistols.
I used to know a guy who was a gangbanger when he was a kid, and he said they were never really pickey about quality, if it could go bang or be used in a robbery, then they would use it.
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