Yes, they’re the semi-auto Uzis, but that’s a good thing. It means you won’t have to go through all that ATF tax stamp rigamarole. All you need is the cash (or enough headroom on your credit card) to take one home. IWI’s street-legal version comes with 20- and 25-round mags and you can get on in any color you want as long as you want one in black. And if you need another reason, just think how much you’ll piss off Diane Feinstein by buying one. Press release after the jump . . .
Harrisburg, PA (October 2013) – IWI US, Inc., a subsidiary of Israel Weapon Industries (IWI), announces the arrival of the long-awaited UZI® PRO semi-auto pistol for the American consumer market. The UZI® brand is world renowned with sales of over 2 million units worldwide since 1963.
The UZI® sub-machine gun (SMG) was designed and patented by Uziel Gal who gave the productionrights to the Israeli Ministry of Defense. After initial testing by the IDF, the Ordnance Corps ordered 8,000 units and the love affair with the world’s most iconic pistol continues today.
The UZI® PRO semi-auto pistol is the latest evolution featuring the most advanced firearms technologies. Based on the famous UZI® SMG, the UZI® PRO Pistol is purpose-built with only one goal – uncompromising performance and reliability on a robust design. This 9mm Luger Parabellum version for the American public sports an advanced polymer pistol grip that incorporates an integrated magazine release button for fast and easy magazine changes. The cocking handle is located on the receiver side thus allowing for a full-length Picatinny rail on the top receiver cover. A short Picatinny rail is also mounted below the barrel for additional accessories.
Safety is always a primary concern with the UZI® brand and the new pistol features three safety mechanisms; a conventional manual safety, a firing pin block and a proven grip safety that must be fully depressed before the gun can be cocked and fired.
Simple maintenance on the UZI® PRO Pistol requires no special tools for quick and easy field stripping. The UZI® PRO Pistol, shipping to distributors everywhere, comes with one 20-round and one 25-round magazine. The UZI® PRO Pistol (Part Number: UPP9S) has a MSRP of $1,099.00.
UZI® PRO Pistol Specifications:
| Caliber: | 9mm Para |
| Operation: | Semi-automatic blowback operation from closed bolt |
| Barrel: | MIL-SPEC, cold-hammer forged CrMoV barrel, 4 groove 1:10 RH twist |
| Barrel Length: | 4.5 inches |
| Overall Length: | 9.5 inches |
| Weight: | 3.66 lbs. |
| Mag Cap: | 1-20 & 1-25 rd. |
| Stock Color: | Black |
| MSRP: | $1,099.00 |
Now now, we don’t know the whole story here, folks.
Dude coulda barked.
I need one just because.
SWMBO keeps naming things. Her car is Sparky, mine is Truman. Her .243 is Frank, because the Choate stock on it is green like Frankenstein. Her Ruger Charger is “The 22 Short Rifle”. The AR is the “M4gery”. The FS2000 is “The Assault Tuna”.
She’s insisting that I name my long range rifle, so I decided to do it before she comes up with something like “Sparkles”. I think we’ve settled on “The Hater” (its an HS Precision HTR => H8TR)
Mostly, the names are just to help her keep it all straight in her head so when I ask “What do you want to take to the range?” she can rattle off the names and I can pack the car properly.
I heard I need to spend even more than this if I want to shoot sporting clays. Apparently an 870 or 500 just isn’t enough.
Would lovve a carbine version with 16 in barrel.
I was all in until I saw that MSRP up over $1000. That’s too much for a novelty pistol.
Count me in on definitely buying one !!!
You must obey. Instantly. Failure to comply is punishable by death. How many times have we seen the scenario where different officers are yelling contradictory demands, and a failure to comply brings a fusillade of gunfire? Even turning around will get you shot….Shoot first, think up your excuse later. Hmm, makes me wonder what really happened a couple of days ago in Santa Rosa…..
Shoot now–invent the circumstance later. Now we’ve got to get rid of these civilians with home security cameras. That’s the real problem.
Nifty. Not $1100 nifty. But nifty, it would make a great conversation piece. Unfortunately I’m not much of a conversationalist. Now if it had a giggle switch, was transferable, and still cost $1100, I’d be on it like Dirk Diggler on Sharron Watts.
Loved the original. Don’t quite see the point of this one.
One of thee most useless firearms and arguably caliber on the market. Especially in semi. The very point of the invention of the uzi was to have a concealable full auto sub-machine gun that has a very high rate of fire. That’s it. Hate Tavors love Desert Eagles but the uzi is only useful to spray a room or small area with 30-50 rounds of 9mm or 45 in a second or two. If I saw some dipshite at a range shooting a semi uzi I’d have to ask them, wtf?
My repsonse to your question of “wtf?” would be….Im saving ammo cost!!!
Wish I could get my hands on one of these, since I’m in a prime position to actually see the witch’s reaction. Then again, Dan Kozisek made a good point about the ban list…
Give it a threaded barrel, rear picatinny rail(so one could add a simple QD stock like they do with ak pistols turned sbr) and offer it in OD and FDE and slash the price by half and ill buy one. Would make a nice sbr and suppressed toy. But for the price I won’t even look at it
I do hope the $1k Msrp doesn’t reflect street price. I kinda want one:)
Hey Dirk, if you see this maybe when your home for the holidays we can do some range time, Close Quarters Tactical has a nice range… 23 mile and Hayes…
I was exceptionally happy when he left Cincinnati.
Oh, yeah. He’s the one that did those TV commercials for the Diploma mill Phoenix University, that has no campus or classrooms.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yK4lxBarpE
Yeah, this seems pretty cut-and-dried to me. As you said, the “hypodermic apparatus” is questionable, but if the unknown substance was “illicit” you know damn sure they’d be trumpeting that point along with the rest of this. The fact that they aren’t makes me tend to believe it was fairly innocuous. How can they charge him with illegal drugs if they haven’t tested the substance?
I (conceal) carry a ‘hypodermic apparatus’ with me all day every day. I even whip it out whenever I feel the need to tinker with it. It’s called an insulin pump.
Even if his ‘apparatus’ was used for some ‘illicit substance’, that still doesn’t mean we should just throw him under the bus.
Boots has grown tired of Dora’s demanding ways.
To cover Obama’s safety during his safari Alpha team leader was chosen to wear the latest in ghillie suit fashion…
I’ll show you Banana Dictator…
Breaking Bad: Curious George Edition
He’s a classmate. Not proud of that at all.
He’s a Army ROTC washout who turned tragedy into an opportunity for fifteen minutes of fame.
must have shot him with a 9mm.
I have several friends who enjoy armchair “schooling” police and the like. Here’s the reality we live in. The police are not attorneys. They understand procedure. Under current law, they can get you detained virtually without evidence or “reasonable” anything. There’s legal and there’s how life works. The reality is that if you’re talking to a policeman and you have a gun, legally or otherwise, the officer can lock you up and make up the charges later. Happened to a friend of mine recently. They claimed he was suicidal and had him locked up for observation and evaluation and he didn’t even have a weapon on him. An officer decided he didn’t like my friend, detained him, and then came back to our place and started asking leading questions to get us to give him reasonable cause.
I see the appeal of open carry—it’s my right, counter to tyranny…etc. Here’s the thing. If you want to be an activist then you’re going to be arrested. Ask anyone who was active in the civil rights movement—standing up against authority means you’re in harms way. I wish it were different. I’m tired of people going out and doing something clearly designed to flout authority and then complaining that authority took notice. Sure it’s legal. Sure, the police shouldn’t have done anything to this guy. But they can, they did, and at some level we all know that’s how the system works. So go ahead and exercise your rights. Peacefully resist. Just understand that you’re taking a risk.
Since child-soldiers are now frowned upon, General Ubuko has developed a new strategy..
One more thing, I’m sure glad those highly educated criminal types will be helping enforce those gun free zones…
I live in Hawaii. If I can’t build it from an 80% lower then I don’t buy it because I refuse to jump through hoops and register my civil rights. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
I’m still waiting for a fool-proof logical explanation of how a gun-free zone sign is supposed to deter a criminal or mentally ill person from committing a crime in any establishment that posts these signs up.
It’s the equivalent of splashing water at a shark to “scare it away”. Frankly, it’s idiotic and counter-intuitive at best.
And I’d also like to know if businesses putting up these signs are backing up the purpose these signs represent by making themselves responsible for the safety of their patrons in the event a crime is committed on the property, they would be liable for emotional distress, bodily harm, or even death of it’s patrons. If you expect your patrons to disarm, are you then providing armed guards to make up for it? No? Then what is the point?
Anything less, and your business is literally putting your patrons at more risk my advertising your ignorance of the fact criminals or the mentally ill, by definition, don’t follow the law or signage prohibiting firearms if they already have it in their minds to perpetrate a crime on or in your establishment…..
I really don’t understand the point of these signs other than the fact they display the stupidity of people that really think words prevent crime.
Can someone point to any place in history where “gun free zone” signs did anything positive for any society?
If these signs were actually effective, then why do the police and militiary carry firearms? Obviously, we can stop all wars and atrocities now that we have these infallible signs we can post in every warzone and battlefield and stop the bloodshed cold.
Oh wait….
Inadequate eye relief.
Cody Wilson vs. Piers Morgan
That would be HILARIOUS!
I think this might be like the ‘disposable, single-use magazine’ debacle. Perhaps this anti thinks that we’d all need a new, different gun for the previously GFZ. Such as my current pistols would just never do for carry in a school. . . I’d surely need something different, perhaps in pink and with a Hello Kitty theme. . .
It’s impossible to sort out what anti’s at the lower level (like the one above) think because their thinking is simultaneously irrational AND not connected to facts. That is, they create their own ‘facts’ out of subconsciously deliberate misunderstandings then propagate them amongst others of their ilk. It’s cognitive bias run wild. Meanwhile, they surrender even the appearance of rational thinking, even regarding their own ‘facts’.
This is usually only possible when one surrounds oneself exclusively with like minded people who won’t shatter the illusion come delusion, for these people are almost clinically delusional, believing in paradoxes without question, accepting rather obvious falsehoods readily, and formulating ideas that even they seem to know would be shredded if ever proffered outside the closed group of those who accept their beliefs as such and without question. Their bias allows them to simultaneously ignore contradictory information while enthusiastically assimilating the most dubious information without filter or concern.
This type of thinking can most readily be seen in the more obscure and radical sorts of religion; A fertile ability to believe the most absurd assertions (such as all the species on earth being collected aboard a boat by a single man and then redistributed to their appropriate locations globally), immediate offense when their assumptions are challenged, and a belief that anyone who doesn’t believe as they do is possessed by or occupied with evil and deserves to be punished.
I submit that the same psychological machinations that are present in religious extremists are at work in the rank and file civilian disarmament proponents and that it is for this reason that rational argument with them is almost completely useless. Rather than a willingness to address the issue and debate it they reflexively assign evil intentions to anyone who disagrees with them even over subtle points of understanding within their delusional framework and have a near hysterical reaction to anyone asserting that their belief system is false at its root.
It is this last that makes the best case for such thinking, whether anti gun or zealotry religious, being clinically delusional. All the hallmarks are present; Disbelief in facts that oppose the delusionary framework, ready acceptance of dubious evidence supporting the delusion, surrender of the use or reason in addressing the delusion or its premises, and emotional or even violent reaction to anyone who challenges the delusion, and an insistence that only their way of thinking has any morality or righteousness.
You cannot argue the precepts of another’s delusion successfully. The clinical model calls for stabilizing their moods via medication and then therapy to determine what it is about reality that terrifies them so badly that they retreated into delusion in the first place. Success is measured by the degree to which they begin to recognize and elucidate on their own that their thinking was irrational and their beliefs impossible. Recovery is the ability to rationally challenge new information for veracity or at least likelihood before assigning it emotional value.
Of course the vast majority of people can’t be clinically delusional, but the line can be very thin. One test to determine what is belief and what is delusion is the degree to which the aberrant thoughts trouble the person who has them and/or others. I’ll leave that up to the AI to decide individually about each anti encountered, but I’d ask that you look at them with the preceding in mind. You might be surprised how many actually are very nearly clinically delusional.
The only thing I see partially “restoring” a more robust 2A would involve some sort of grand state/federal bargain along the lines of UBC and Mag Capacity limits in exchange for NFA repeal and nationwide CCW. It would take the Prez, Congress, the mayors of NYC, Chicago, LA, and the Governors of NY, Texas, Florida and CA to all be on board. Other than that, the piecemeal local skirmishes with the occasional D.C. battle will continue.