Abundance of Take - Off Slide Assemblies Online

[The Glockodile]

There’s lots of them online.

Glock 19s.

17s.

You name it.

At the price of a COMPLETE firearm.

What gives?

 

[FROGO207]

My take------
How much can I get for this slide from some sucker?

 

[vintovka]

Police turn ins?

 

[The Glockodile]

Brand new slides, take - offs, supposedly!

 

[adcoch1]

Guys who bought custom parts for WAY too much money trying to recoup on the 80% crowd...

 

[Just4FunOldGuns]

Used one's would be part of a gun buy back, or seized for a number of reasons to get more money to buy more guns! New one's are probably from another failed Fast & Furious or part of he original from back in 2006.

 

[12Bravo20]

Guys who bought custom parts for WAY too much money trying to recoup on the 80% crowd...

This

 

[bullseye308]

Too many people with more $ then smarts.

 

[JohnKSa]

What gives?

The question to ask is why people are willing to pay that much for them.

The only reason I can think of is the people doing 80% builds whose primary motivation is getting a gun that's "off the books". That's the only group I can think of who would be willing to pay a new gun price for the upper---maybe even more as long as they don't have to do the normal paperwork.

 

[troy fairweather]

Guys who bought custom parts for WAY too much money trying to recoup on the 80% crowd...

Nailed it.

 

[medalguy]

Does anyone think the gov doesn't pretty well know who owns what nowdays? So much for privacy.

 

[vintovka]

All the new glocks i have seen have a couple of spent cases in the box. I assume the information on the bullets and primer indents are stored somewhere. Maybe the new upper is way around traceability?????

 

[The Glockodile]

The only reason I can think of is the people doing 80% builds whose primary motivation is getting a gun that's "off the books". That's the only group I can think of who would be willing to pay a new gun price for the upper---maybe even more as long as they don't have to do the normal paperwork.

Perhaps even Felons?

This does open a whole new bag of worms...

 

[weeniewawa]

there are tons of aftermarket slides out there for great prices, around $200 with a red dot cut

I have a few friends who used them on 80% builds, they functioned fine, I have no idea why the factory ones should be so much higher as the large majority of them have to be used on 80's

 

[weeniewawa]

All the new glocks i have seen have a couple of spent cases in the box. I assume the information on the bullets and primer indents are stored somewhere. Maybe the new upper is way around traceability?????

I think those are to prove that gun functioned to the buyer and in some areas the locals require a case submission when registering or so I have heard, not sure if it is true.

 

[vintovka]

I think those are to prove that gun functioned to the buyer and in some areas the locals require a case submission when registering or so I have heard, not sure if it is true.

I don't know either but the question begs if cases and bullets are traceable then the "new" slide assembly carries with it an unknown history. Weird to think about?

 

[JohnKSa]

I don't know if any state is using the spent cartridges anymore. I know that at one time, MD required them to use for potential tracing purposes in the event empty cases were found at the scene of a crime. However, they scrapped that program after 15 years without a single crime solved. NY was doing it for awhile, but I think they quit too--but don't hold me to that.

I believe that if the spent case is still in the box with the gun, that is evidence that it wasn't submitted to any similar program. Again, don't hold me to that.

 

[Skylerbone]

Asking price isn’t getting price. I recently went looking for a second U22 Neos and came away shaking my head. Granted, mine was purchased not long after their introduction but I’m hard pressed believing they’ve doubled in price as a starting bid on used. Same story with tracking down a carbine kit which turned up 1 result at $1,200. Great expectations.

The shell casing bit is correct, my M&P came with one to send to MD if I happened to live there. Now as far as unique marks go, plenty of people dress the extractor and ejector on a new pistol, the firing pin can be modified or cheaply replaced, and chamber can be polished which alters the semi-unique markings left on spent brass.

Now IF the upper were used in a crime it would still be traceable only as far as the original owner unless he kept records.

 

[P89DCSS]

I bought a new slide for my Sig P320 with Romeo optic and tall sights. Sold the old slide on eBay. Upgrade cost was less than $250.

I bought the P320 in late 2016 and it didn't come with a fired case. I thought that ended a decade ago.

 

[vintovka]

Saw some 80% glock lowers in the flesh just recently. Their existence and sales answers lots of questions. Two sold right while i was standing there in the LGS. They were restocked within seconds and salesman said they are flying out door and i suspect many for resale. On close inspection i can see why. Is Glock making uppers to meet demand?

 

[mgmorden]

I know there was a case recently where FN USA was clearing out a whole bunch of FNS-9 parts for dirt cheap but destroyed the frames. If you're seeing them show up at retail spots like CDNN then manufacturer overruns or liquidations are likely the source.

If on places like Gunbroker: it's probably people parting stuff out. For guns the sum of its parts is worth more than the whole, and a lot of people will part out guns because if the price you can sell all the parts for adds up to twice what the whole gun would sell for, then its good business.