FYI ATI announces "new" GSG522's

[nfafan]

Read all about 'em.

http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=6&f=41&t=302150

Questions:

Do you get an old GSG5 or new GSG522, or hold out for the one with the licensed HK trades?

And what do you tell SIG about that "522" thing?

[Emptymag]

Ha! So they made it BETTER than the HK "copy" and that gets them "off the hook"?

At least that's the way I'm reading it... funny. (and good news)

[Munky]

Where do I get one of those 110 round cartridges and will it work with the GSG-5 I already own?!?!?!

[knight0334]

Let me know when they make one in 9mm Parabellum..

[22LR]

"Do you get an old GSG5 or new GSG522, or hold out for the one with the licensed HK trades?"

If you want a collectible get a current GSG 5. If you want perhaps even better performance get a new GSG 522. I have gen 1 & 2 GSG 5s and they are both great guns but knowing GSG I would imagine the new models have even more refining tweaks.

"Where do I get one of those 110 round cartridges and will it work with the GSG-5 I already own?!?!?!"

There won't be any available because I am going to buy them all, betting that they will fit just fine.


"Let me know when they make one in 9mm Parabellum.. "

This is close.. but not quite a cigar..

[Asmodeus6]

Let me know when they make one in 9mm Parabellum..

THIS ^^^

I'll be in line right behind you.

[nfafan]

"Do you get an old GSG5 or new GSG522, or hold out for the one with the licensed HK trades?"

If you want a collectible get a current GSG 5. If you want perhaps even better performance get a new GSG 522. I have gen 1 & 2 GSG 5s and they are both great guns but knowing GSG I would imagine the new models have even more refining tweaks.

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I dunno.... HK trades have to count for something.

If - a big if - the new HK SD5 looks good and is nicer than the (from Umarex's airsoft heritage; is at least as nice as say an ICS MP5SD) old GSG SD5, I'd be tempted.

Regardless, I'm happy for MP5 fans - now they have 2 .22LR MP5s to choose from.

While the rest of us will continue to wait for a .22LR MP44/STG44, G36, FAMAS, L85/SA80, AUG, FAL, FNC, Galil.

[dirksterg30]

THIS ^^^

I'll be in line right behind you.

I'm 3rd in line.

[jachrist]

While the rest of us will continue to wait for a .22LR MP44/STG44, G36, FAMAS, L85/SA80, AUG, FAL, FNC, Galil.

I'm thinking with enough pressure, the firearms community could convince ATI to make one of the above guns.

Sounds like a good forum project to me !!!! Get every member to write a personalized email asking them to make a .22 version of the same model.

Getting that many people to agree would be quite a task, but if several thousand emails suddenly filled their inboxes asking for a FAMAS .22, how long do you think it would take them to get the picture???

What do you guys think?

[nfafan]

Unfortunately, there's probably only 1000 of us accross the entire USA that would buy a FAMAS. IIRC, Samco (?) brought in about 800 for under $1K each in the mid-80's, and that was all that was ever brought in, due to low/no demand for such an unusual rifle.

In fact, we don't even have any decently strong airsoft FAMAS bodies to hack into .22LR, for the same low-demand reasons. At least the few L85 airsoft guns are metal and ABS.