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Basic poverty keeps me from being an early adopter.
This has saved me from a thing or three.
Occasionally, I'm just late to the party.
I'd have bought a Colt 2000 or a Remington R51 the day they hit the shelves if I'd had any money at the time.
Happily...
Well, the gun rags are all a quiver about this new Rost Martin RM1C.
It's a plastic framed striker fired 9mm.
Again.
How many is it now?
It looks like a screaming deal with a sub-$500 MSRP.
But so's a S&W SD9 2.0, it's sub $400.
I'm jaded.
I've watched the new hotness come and go too many times.
I got a S&W M&P because they were the hotness, just in time for all the gunwriters to switch back to Glocks.
Nothing wrong with either.
There's prolly nothing wrong with the RM1C.
But I can also remember when the P320 was teh hawtness. Then they started going off on their own. Bet the Army is happy they skipped field trials, huh?
But I want this new gun to make it. We need more successful American companies, not fewer.
We don't need American companies importing rebranded foreign guns neither.
One reason I'm a bit of a neophobe is because I've had my fingers burnt going after "the new hotness." I have a box full of eight-track tapes somewhere to attest to that. (Parenthetically, I never did understand why eight-tracks went out of use---they're very nice on long car trips when I don't want to have to fiddle endlessly with the car stereo.)
ReplyDelete8-Track tapes were generally less reliable than cassettes. They were also bulkier and had less playtime per tape.
DeleteAuto-reverse on cassette players did more to kill them than anything else, but the introduction of the CD player killed them both.
Now I'm bluetoothin' my tunes from my phone.