I know that OA has a reputation for poor quality, but I must say that the new OA-93 piston pistol has my attention.





I've always thought that AR's with short barrels and buffer tubes should have stocks on them.  The ATF makes acquiring one an intrusive process.  So people buy AR 'pistols' that are really nothing more than SBR's without a stock.





A piston gun (like RRA's LAR-PDS Pistol) is, to me, a true AR pistol, and I've thought a lot lately about acquiring one.  I own an Adams Arms 7.5" 'pistol' and I like it, but it has a buffer tube - which sucks in 'pistol' mode.  I have an SBR lower, so I can at least put that upper on my lower and have a nice little compact 5.56 SBR.  (And I have no interest in the Sig Brace, for that very reason.)





Does anyone have an OA-93?  Or does anyone want to chime in and tell me to stay away from Olympic guns altogether?





I'm considering buying one.  I know RRA probably makes the better gun, but I hold a long-standing grudge against that company, and I won't give them a penny of my hard-earned cash.

I've never owned an OA-93 but I've thought about getting one also. I have owned a 16" carbine and it shot just as good as my Colt 6920. Don't believe everything you read about Olympic quality being poor.

This. The QC issues were a thing of the past. My Olympic 16" carbine shoots very well. The automatic versions of their rifles are well received from the people I know who operate them.

John Clark says, "good choice".

Why not an MCX pistol?

I need to look at it.



 

I have a friend who owns an OA-93.  Great little pistol.  He said he has never had any issues with it, if that matters to you.

For that barrel length, you would be just as good shooting a .22 lr.

Waste of powder.

There were never any QC issues with Oly, aside from the Plinker, a cast frame AR.  You have to go back to the old board to get the run down on Oly and the AR world.  In brief, Oly made some subtle changes to the design, mostly cosmetic.  The Bushmaster Mafia started a pissing match with the sales director of Oly about who made the most "mil-spec" AR.  It quickly degenerated and Oly told arfcom what they could do with their website and left, never to return.  After that everyone piled on Oly.  My first AR was an Oly and it ran like a champ.  Oly has been making AR's longer than anyone except Colt and are one of the few than make everything in house.  Their barrels in particular are very good.

Tight chamber on mine had few extraction problem when new but after about 100rds runs like a sewing machine and VERY accurate. Cons: weights as much as an M240b and cannot be easily field stripped. Having said that, I like it very much for its uniqueness.

^^This^^. I had an Oly 20" SUM (1:10) SGW Lower  thing was a prairie dogs nightmare, with irons!. Their factory AR triggers were very smooth. The wife's AR's ran them till i switched them out for ALG's.   I'd buy one for another suppressed SBR. IF i wasn't saving coin for one of those Ruger Precision's.
The only issue i had with them was their 93 pistol made to meet 94 AWB specs, where someone took a drill and went to town punching holes any and every where. Looked like a cheese grater

The OLY bashers seem to have (conveniently) forgotten the 1999 BM debacle of over torqued bbls. . Among other mfg issues with their guns.

This is correct. The Plinker was a freaking joke, but every Oly I ever had shot damn good and was reliable.

I started building and working on AR's in the 1980's (before it was cool, before this site, before the internet). Olys (along with SGWs and PWAs) were the most problematic, piss-poor, POS AR's  I ever dealt with. Nothing in recent memory comes close except the trash that idiot ross rogio was cobbling together in Fayetteville, NC a few years back (2009-ish?) It got to the point that I didn't even want to assemble kits from those companies that other people got me to put together for them that they were buying from shotgun news or wherever they were getting them (which I would typically do for a case of beer if I knew you) all in the name of saving a little $. The guns would almost always have problems and it would look like I put it together wrong. Uppers and lowers that didn't fit right, plastic buffers filled with bird shot, crappy BCGs and components, gas tubes of inferior gauge metal, on and on. Even if Oly worked out their problems and totally changed EVERYTHING, I still have nothing for them. I would advise you to get with someone who really knows what he's doing and build a DI pistol AR with a 10" barrel and carbine gas tube out of quality components, if you want a pistol. Just my 2 cents.