Altor ! Cheapest 9mm Productions gun

Basically, a commercially produced and legal to own "Zip Gun". I too am not impressed. At $99, does the dealer still give a free UBC and transfer?

I suggest you keep it unfired and in the box. That way, someday..... it may be worth $100.

Hold up.
What about RDS or scope mounting options?
Does it have suppressor height iron sights?
Nope?
No deal. Totally useless.

The comedy is strong with this one.

Have you considered a 12 step program?

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THAT is some AWESOME James Bond stuff!!


Seriously, if they made a carbine version I’d be all over it.

21H40 said:

THAT is some AWESOME James Bond stuff!!


Seriously, if they made a carbine version I’d be all over it.

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I was thinking the same. It would be fairly easy to do. Slap a hi point 995 barrel into the milled out barrel flange and you get legal length. A folding stock should be simple enough in/on the plastic housing that is the grip. Seems pretty doable.

9mm barrel liner may work.

Buy a six-pack of them and you got yourself a six shooter!

Three pages on an Altor?

Recently a guy at a gun show tried to convince me I needed one of these. I think my glare gave him my answer. That and the words “Are you high?”.

I was gonna say send it to me and I’ll thread it for free but it looks like I’m too late

Taurus 617 CCW said:

I wrote the company and asked if they would ever make a rimfire version. They told me no.because its not a defensive caliber. I think they are missing out on the tackle box gun market. Too bad.

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I think they are taking its utility as a defensive tool a little too seriously lol

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this makes me chuckle and cringe at the same time
well done sir

tarosean said:

I am thinking you can cobble one together with a trip to HomeDepot/Lowes/Ace in an afternoon.

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I made something very similar 40+ years ago in my early teens out in the garage with stuff we already had. Cut a bolt in half then bored each half. The half of the bolt without the head was the barrel which was bored to fit a 22lr.

The part with the head was bored with a small diameter just big enough for a blunted nail to slide through. The head of the bolt was bolted to a hand sized stick to hold it. After the 22lr was placed in the barrel the two halves were held together by screwing each of them half way into a long nut.

A few rubber bands were heavily taped to the head of the blunted nail which served at the striker spring.

It worked but only lasted one day before being confiscated by the POM department (pissed off mom). Evidently a firecracker cannon is ok but a zip gun isn't!

If a 13 year could make a zip gun pretty much anyone can. BTW, after reading this post the ATF wants to ban bolts that have been bored through the middle since they are more than 80% complete..

@MikeInOr I also made a “zip gun” when I was a kid. I should say “we” made a zip gun. I found a .38 Special round just laying on the sidewalk and picked it up. I had heard my Dad and his buddies discussing zip guns one day and I decided to make one to shoot my new hound treasure. Long story short we were stymied by a clerk at the hardware store who heard us discussing the finer points of how we could find a way to reload it quicker than a screwed on pipe cap with a hole drilled into it for the firing pin (nail).
He had called the police which were literally across the street. Two officers arrived and confiscated our as of yet unfired creation and gave us a ride home. After a good talking to we realized the error of our ways and vowed never to do it again.
A week later we had a working model of a .22 LR zip gun that we shot a few times then dismantled after we noticed cracks in the galvanized pipe we used as a barrel.

To me, the Altor is just a manufactured and legal “Zip Gun”. I am sure it’s barrel will outlast a few rounds though.

I think I will save up a little more and buy a Hi-Point.
Have you range tested it yet @Mark_Mark ?

I shot mine with a dumb no moving parts silencer at 10 yards. Made about a 6 inch group and bullets were tumbling.
10 yards is about 10yds more than the intended distance so that's acceptable I guess.
I got the blacked out threaded barrel for $79 because I thought I looked cool (it's $99 now). I threaded the original barrel and got a 380 barrel for like $40 and thread it too.

$80 more …
Actually a extremely good pistol !!

Not for this old boy! I’d spend thirty bucks more and get a Heritage. At least you’d have six rounds of 22WMR rather than one and done.

I look at those and see the WWII 'Liberator', made with modern manufacturing techniques.

Larry