ANGSTADT ARMS UDP-9 9MM 6″ BARREL 15+1 AAUDP09B06

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ANGSTADT ARMS UDP-9 9MM

The ANGSTADT ARMS UDP-9 9MM is a closed bolt and blowback-operated system driven by our 9mm bolt carrier group and fed with standard GLOCK 9mm magazines. Buy ATI Omni Hybrid Maxx HGA 300BLK online.

Angstadt Arms is a privately held firearms manufacturer in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. I started Angstadt Arms in 2014, and the company was born from my passion for shooting sports and a desire to continue the dynasty of Angstadt master gun makers.

AK “pistols” of any kind have no practical advantages over a similar AK model with a stock with the possible exception of being smaller and easier to hide.

AK pistols exist only because of a quirk of US law. In the US, a rifle with a stock must have minimum barrel length of 16 inches. If it is shorter than that, it is classified as a Short Barrel Rifle and is very heavily regulated. You have to pay a $200 tax and undergo a long bureaucratic process with lots of paperwork. The law also prohibits attaching stocks to pistols.

There are some AK models, like AK74SU, which have a much shorter barrel.

In order to sell them without restrictions on the US civilian market they are re-made on receivers that exclude the fully-automatic function and have no provision for the stock attachment. Having a short barrel and no stock allows them to be legally classified as pistols.

Obviously, they are too large and heavy to be used like normal pistol for more than a couple of shots, and the absence of a stock makes them unusable in the fashion of a rifle. As a result, the shooter winds up holding it by the grip and forend with no real support. This can be mitigated to a degree with a sling, but it’s still not ideal. Hands with no other support are a poor shooting platform for a rifle-weight gun.

Meanwhile, any AK-style rifle with a stock can be used in normal rifle fashion, allowing for greater accuracy and comfort.