My homie Sean Lindley with Texas Machine Gun & Ordnance told me that he was able to pick up the first Glock 17A out of Australia imported into the U.S. earlier this month. While it is not lubricated with Fosters and zeroed in on packs of running dingoes, Sean says the big difference between the 17A and a normal 17 is in the barrel…
Can you spot the difference?
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TXMGO’s version
Giving the people what they want, veteran-owned Texas Machine Gun & Ordnance has an in-house Israeli M16 line in both NFA non-NFA lengths they debuted last week.
The real deal
With retro M16A1 builds being super popular these days (Colt just dropped a rebooted SP-1 for a cool $2499 MSRPsend-ups send ups of the guns used by the Israeli Defence Forces for generations fill a great niche. The pictures shown here are of their semi-auto NFA-compliant model with a 14.7-inch barrel and pinned/welded flash-hider to keep the rifle out of SBR territory.
TXMGO advises they have 13- and 11-inch models if you want to pay the stamp.
Prices are $1375 and they are as IDF as can be to include a Star of David proof-mark, spare mag holder, handguard bands and those comfy canvas slings you always see from the region.