Laugo Arms Alien Pistol

[sota]

...... OW.

I've bought decent cars for less than that.

That's 25,000 rounds of 9mm practice ammo (at 20c/rnd average price.)
You could attend a couple really good gun schools, including ammo, air fare, lodging.
You could arm your whole block with glocks.
You could arm your whole neighborhood with Hi Points.

 

[Browning]

Question for the group. If someone were to accidentally double charge a reload, and blow this gun up, how much greater of a safety hazard do folks think it would be to have the chamber directly next to your hand and index finger, rather than slightly above like on more traditional designs?

I don't think it would really make that much of a difference. That's just a guess though. I'm no engineer.

Wanted to share. Laugo Arms recently stated in a FB post that this gun will retail for around $5000 in the US.

So I'm out. I'll pick up three high quality guns for that price.

Yeah, me too. Forget that.

With that price I'm betting they never get off the ground.

I'll just go with a run of the mill Glock 34.

 

[tarosean]

Doesn't surprise me. looks like a lot of intricate machine work, Lots of R&D as it's not your run of the mill browning tilt action. etc. etc.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

With that price I'm betting they never get off the ground.

I'm sure they will sell a number of them to the folks that can afford them, but I just wonder how long that will carry them. Same as the FK BRNO. They have other designs that are very successful and affordable. Well at least one that I know of, the CZ Scorpion EVO3. But this pistol seems a very limited market at best.

Doesn't surprise me. looks like a lot of intricate machine work, Lots of R&D as it's not your run of the mill browning tilt action. etc. etc.

Agreed.

You going to try and pick one up? I know you have some spendy guns on order already, but given your interests you were the one THR member I thought might bring one home.

 

[Browning]

I'm sure they will sell a number of them to the folks that can afford them, but I just wonder how long that will carry them. Same as the FK BRNO. They have other designs that are very successful and affordable. Well at least one that I know of, the CZ Scorpion EVO3. But this pistol seems a very limited market at best.

Oh I'm sure that they'll sell some. My point was more that they'll never become more than a freakishly expensive curiousity.

At that price they'll never even become somewhat common.

 

[tarosean]

You going to try and pick one up? I know you have some spendy guns on order already, but given your interests you were the one THR member I thought might bring one home.

Nope, as intriguing as it is. If I am dropping 5k on a pistol it better be a functional work of art that was worked on by a master.
This doesn't really click any of my buttons other than it's mechanical curiosity aspect.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Oh I'm sure that they'll sell some. My point was more that they'll never become more than a freakishly expensive curiousity.

At that price they'll never even become somewhat common.

I agree

 

[MachIVshooter]

Oh I'm sure that they'll sell some. My point was more that they'll never become more than a freakishly expensive curiousity.

At that price they'll never even become somewhat common.

Agreed.

I might go as high as $1,200 for something unique like this if it proves to work really, really well. Five grand? Not in this lifetime. I can't see it doing anything that something like the Witness Limited won't do just as well or better.

 

[Browning]

Agreed.

I might go as high as $1,200 for something unique like this if it proves to work really, really well. Five grand? Not in this lifetime. I can't see it doing anything that something like the Witness Limited won't do just as well or better.

Yeah. I might have even gone a bit higher ($1500). They're smoking crack if they think that a bunch of shooters are going to adopt this pistol for $5000 though.

 

[sota]

If it were Wilson Combat 92G money, I'd buy one. That's Cabot Arms 1911 money. I can't afford that.

 

[bc1023]

Wanted to share. Laugo Arms recently stated in a FB post that this gun will retail for around $5000 in the US.

So I'm out. I'll pick up three high quality guns for that price.

Sounds good to me.

As long as quality is a match, I'd rather it be expensive. I felt the same about the FK BRNO I bought.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Sounds good to me.

As long as quality is a match, I'd rather it be expensive. I felt the same about the FK BRNO I bought.

I'm glad you can afford such guns, as most of us can't. Please share your experience and insight when you get one. I'd love to read it.

 

[bc1023]

I'm glad you can afford such guns, as most of us can't. Please share your experience and insight when you get one. I'd love to read it.

I certainly will

I don’t normally my guns with rails (other than polymer), but I’ll make an exception here.

 

[tarosean]

I certainly will

I don’t normally my guns with rails (other than polymer), but I’ll make an exception here.

well it does seem like it as an SV/STI type grip frame mounted to a metal chassis.

So you need to just make half an exception Brian.

 

[GrandmasterB]

I was super excited about these pistols until I heard about the price. I still think there will be some competition shooters that will buy them, but they are priced out of the hands of the average Joe, which is too bad.

 

[lysanderxiii]

Question for the group. If someone were to accidentally double charge a reload, and blow this gun up, how much greater of a safety hazard do folks think it would be to have the chamber directly next to your hand and index finger, rather than slightly above like on more traditional designs?

No more dangerous, than a zinc .380 blow-back with a similar barrel-hand relationship.

 

[paulsj]

I can't think of a bad pistol coming out of Czech Republic. No phillips head screws, allelujah! I'm interested. Might need to stock up on them 123gr ball rounds.

 

[Coal Dragger]

Well that and have $5,000.00 to spend.

 

[Labguy47]

Didn't Rhino come out with something like that in .357 a few years back? Supposedly to fight muzzle climb?

 

[Zaydok Allen]

Didn't Rhino come out with something like that in .357 a few years back? Supposedly to fight muzzle climb?

The Chiappa Rhino shoots from the bottom chamber rather than the top.

 

[sequins]

5,000 is far too much, STI is a better pistol for the money.

 

[bc1023]

5,000 is far too much, STI is a better pistol for the money.

Well it’s not even in the States yet. How can you make that statement?

STI’s are good shooters, but nothing overly special. If the Alien Pistol is built like I’m anticipating it to be, it will be worth the money.

I’m thinking of a gun built like SVI, not STI. STI is a run of the mill production gun.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

How can you make that statement?

If the Alien Pistol is built like I’m anticipating it to be, it will be worth the money.

STI is a run of the mill production gun.

Let's keep perspective. Your statement that it'll be worth the money is just as much an assumption that someone else made that it won't be.

Nothing is worth anything more than it is worth to the end user, and we all assign different values based on our own experience and income levels.

STI may be a run of the mill gun to you, but isn't to me or many other people. We all have different income levels and may have money from other sources than our careers like inheritances, or well, whatever.

If it's worth it to you, that's cool, but it may not be worth it to others.

 

[bc1023]

Let's keep perspective. Your statement that it'll be worth the money is just as much as an assumption that someone else made that it won't be.

Nothing is worth anything more than it is worth to the end user, and we all assign different values based on our own experience and income levels.

STI may be a run of the mill gun to you, but isn't to me or many other people. We all have different income levels and may have money from other sources than our careers like inheritances, or well, whatever.

If it's worth it to you, that's cool, but it may not be worth it to others.

I'm keeping it in perspective fine. STI builds production guns by the tens of thousands. That's a fact, not an opinion. I've owned several. Not saying they are bad guns.

I said a few times in the thread that I'm hoping the Alien is the pistol I think it will be. I didn't state that it would be. I stated that I'm encouraged by the price point. Sure, it could be a disappointment. However, to flat out say that $5,000 is too much and that STI is better, when they haven't even seen the gun seems a bit ridiculous. That was my point, nothing more.

 

[Zaydok Allen]

5,000 is far too much, STI is a better pistol for the money.

Is it safe to assume you mean that STI represents s better value?